Durability Test & Data Acquisition Engineer

The Durability Test & Data Acquisition Engineer is responsible for leading real time vehicle and system level testing projects. This engineer will be the hands-on vehicle expert to serve as the voice of the customer for the vehicle level testing and ensure that customer issues are identified, reported and resolved prior to product launch.

Duties consist of:

• Root cause analysis
• Hands-on vehicle evaluations/diagnosis
• Application of diagnostic tools/equipment
• Collecting and analyzing data
• Reporting and documenting issues
• Presenting information both verbal and written in meetings
• Participating in/facilitating meetings
• Directing drivers, mechanics and technicians
• Competitive vehicle benchmarking
• Collect and reduce data for use in real time simulation testing, modeling and component level testing

Basic Qualifications:

• A minimum of a Bachelor of Science in Electrical, Computer Engineering or related degree field
• Minimum of 1 year of experience in vehicles
• Exposure to the use of various transducers for measure accelerations, displacements, and load pressure
• Experience with reviewing Road Load Data to ensure data fidelity
• Exposure to various durability data analysis techniques
• Experience with Chassis/Suspension/Driveline systems

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering or Electrical Engineering
• Experience designing transducers
• Experience with wheel force transducers
• Experience with road load data acquisition systems
• Experience with vehicle chassis / suspension / driveline systems
• Experience with nCode Data analysis or other data analysis software
• Real time simulation durability experience
• Experience running MTS passenger and light truck road simulator test rigs and multi-axis shake tables
• Experience with RPC Pro
• One or more years of experience performing vehicle road load data acquisitions, measuring loads, displacements, accelerations and ETS