Seat & Headrest Design Engineer

Workplace: On-Site, 5 days per week
Location: Foster City, CA
Salary: $105-120k

We are seeking a Seat & Headrest Design Engineer that will be responsible for the overall mechanical component and system design, from concept to shipment, for our headrests and seats. We will be developing design and doing analysis in-house. You will also be responsible for developing test and validation plans while documenting and communicating designs, trade-offs, and status updates with various multi-functional teams including Industrial Design, Vehicle Engineering, Purchasing, Reliability, Packaging, Quality, Manufacturing & Safety.

Responsibilities 
    • Outstanding skills and experience leading automotive seating design and development projects
    • Demonstrable excellence designing seat components, particularly headrest assemblies
    • Emphasis on seating structures and complete seat expertise demonstrated over multiple projects.
    • Must be able to demonstrate the ability to design systems to meet seat headrest requirements:
        ○ Safety requirements, including design considerations that influence HIC scores,
        ○ FMVSS requirements
        ○ IIHS requirements
        ○ Comfort requirements
        ○ Modal/NVH requirements
        ○ Operational strength

Required Qualifications 
    • Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineer requires, Masters preferred.
    • 2-5 years of experience designing various components and full seating systems
    • Strong analytical/problem solving skills and general mechanical engineering analysis
    • Strong materials knowledge; good understanding of different materials and grades
    • Ability to articulate design issue quantitatively both verbally and with documentation
    • Solid 3-D CAD skills, including significant experience with Catia v6. Seat system packaging, kinematics and modeling capability necessary
    • Demonstrated ability in metallic and composites part design
    • Working knowledge of finite element analysis theory and general mechanical engineering analysis
    • Design for Manufacturability (DFM), and Design for Assembly (DFA), statistical tolerance analysis techniques, functional dimensioning, and geometric tolerancing, preparing and checking 2D drawings
    • Experience in a team environment and being self-motivated to close design issues
    • Flexibility and comfort working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment that is prone to change

Salary Range
    • $105,000 - 120,000
    • The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, the candidate’s combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience