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We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.

As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.

When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.

Job Description:

The position is responsible for designing and developing new vehicles which meet future regulatory requirements and customer competitive requirements.

This group is responsible for vehicle architecture, vehicle packaging, initial systems concepts and component engineering design.

In addition, the team resolves packaging and adaptation issues as the vehicles move toward production.

The engineer's responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, establishing physical and functional integration of vehicle systems and components during the program planning phase (concept to program approval), translating strategic and functional objectives into technical requirements, creating and analyzing alternative design concepts, packaging and integrating systems and components, and benchmarking of competitive vehicles.

The candidate will achieve these tasks by leading an extended cross functional team to balance all requirements to achieve the most optimal solution.

Presentation of design concepts to higher levels of management will be required.

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or equivalent from an ABET accredited or equivalent program

Five + years of vehicle engineering experience in one or more of the following areas: Body-in-White, Electrical, Interior Systems, Powertrain Adaptations, Engine Systems (Cooling, Fuel, Exhaust), or Chassis Systems

Expertise in TeamCenter , NX CAD Software & Vis Mockup with demonstrated skills to:

Develop new corporate preproduction and manage production CAD data structures.

Position and manipulate models, cut sections, analyze existing designs.

Create and analyze alternative designs and integrate systems and components.

Create specialized CAD sessions to support high level and detailed management reviews.

Excellent communication skills to lead others to coordinate and resolve issues across all Client regions.

Able to effectively operate independently and in a cross-functional team environment.

Strong Microsoft Office skills

Results driven

Preferred Qualifications:

Master of Science degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering from an ABET accredited

Broad vehicle knowledge

Ability to integrate stakeholder requirements into final vehicle design

Excellent communication skills

Excellent relationship building skills

Ability to productively manage change

Ability to present ideas and concepts successfully to all levels of management

Excellent MS Office skills (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook)

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, or pregnancy.

Please beware of job seeker scams and see this important notice on our careers page for more information about our recruiting process.

Compliance Notice: Alten USA is a federal contractor subject to the requirements of the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) and Executive Order 11246. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Drug Screening Requirement: As a federal contractor, Alten USA maintains a drug-free workplace. All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire.