Job Description

Job Tittle _ Seat Engineer

Location – Newark, CA

Job Role

• Be a significant contributor to a world-class seating system engineering team
• Contribute to creation of industry-leading seating systems, with ground-breaking safety, comfort, craftsmanship, ergonomics, and functionality
• Ensure successful packaging, integration, and release of selected advanced seat technologies into the design environment to meet all performance and reliability targets
• Work interactively within a cross-functional marketing, design, and vehicle engineering team, placing priority upon the greater benefit of the vehicle above any one individual system
• Collaborate with seating suppliers to ensure technical excellence and on time delivery of Lucid seating systems
• Assist in developing performance specifications and tests for seat attributes, including strength, appearance, durability, and NVH
• Employ and develop effective tools and an innovative approach to supporting the development

Qualifications

• At least 3 years of demonstrated experience as a technical engineer leading seating development project
• Knowledge of vehicle seating systems and demonstrable track record of technical excellence a program execution
• Knowledge of safety regulations, FMVSS, ECE & ADR.
• Understanding of automotive seating industry benchmark, trends, and supplier competencies
• Experience with Seating Systems DVP&Rs & DFMEAs
• Experience establishing/improving technical product specifications and timelines to achieve an accelerated development cycle towards SOP
• Experienced in using CAD to create 2D/3D concept drawings, seating components, packaging layouts, and DFM studies
• The ideal candidate would be someone who has experience working in a cross functional team involving multiple vehicle systems

Advantageous

• Flexibility and ability to adapt to achieve success in a fast-paced startup environment
• A solid knowledge of structural performance, ergonomics, comfort, safety standards, and restraint systems
• A solid knowledge of seat structural performance, seat mechanisms, ergonomics, comfort, safety standards, and restraint systems
• A strong desire to create the very best product, working as an integral part of a very capable team
• A practical hands-on approach to complement the theoretical
• Design experience operating with CATIA V6 3DExperience
• A full program cycle experiences from concept to production launch in automotive seating
• Exceptional technical abilities paired with excellent communication skills (both written & verbal) to communicate effectively with the different vehicle systems

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Science in a relevant engineering discipline
• Master of Science in relevant discipline preferred