CAE Technical Leader (Automotive)

Job Descriptions:

Project Management

• Lead all CAE activities from RFQ → SOP
• Make plans: Resource planning (Safety / NVH / Durability / Meshing); Timeline & milestone
• Track KPI: Simulation accuracy (correlation >80%); On-time delivery (0 delay)
• Risk management & escalation

Technical Leadership

• Define CAE strategy: Crash (Frontal, Side, Offset, Pole – NCAP); NVH (Modal, LDS, VTF, NTF); Durability (fatigue, load cases)
• Review: Model setup (LS-DYNA, Nastran, Abaqus…); Boundary conditions & material
• Mesh quality (>95%)
• Approve: Simulation results; Design countermeasures

Team Management

• Manage multi-domain team: Safety engineers; NVH engineers; Durability engineers; Meshing engineers
• Coaching: Improve technical capability; Build standard & best practice; Performance evaluation & KPI tracking

Customer & Stakeholder Management

• Interface with: OEM / Tier1 CAE team; Design / test / validation team
• Present: Simulation results; Root cause analysis; Optimization proposal

Process & Tool Development

• Standardize: CAE workflow (pre → solve → post); Template model & automation
• Develop: Automation scripts
• Improve: Simulation efficiency & cost reduction; Drive continuous improvement in validation processes and methodologies

Job Requirements:

• 5–10 years of experience in CAE automotive
• 3–5 years of experience in position: Leader / PM
• Experience with:
• OEM or Tier1
• Full vehicle program
• Strong knowledge: Crash safety (NCAP, FMVSS, EuroNCAP) or NVH & Durability
• Tools: LS-DYNA, ANSA / Hypermesh, Nastran / Abaqus / Optistruct
• Deep understanding: Material models, Boundary conditions, Correlation CAE vs Test

• Project planning & delivery
• Stakeholder communication (English fluent)
• Problem solving & decision making
• Experience with Agile / Automotive V-model