Passive Safety Integration Engineer

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.

As our Passive Safety Integration Engineer you will be responsible for complete end to end integration of electrical passive safety components and participate in the system level design activities for the subsystem. You will be the point person for anything passive safety related on this platform and lead the bring up and crash activities in each of the vehicle builds. You will Conceptualize, Design, Engineer, Develop and support the launch of next-generation vehicle platforms for electric vehicles.

What you’ll be able to do:

• Lead the integration efforts for various electrical passive safety components, such as the restraints control module, pressure sensors, cut-loops, etc.

• Instrument crash test vehicles and conduct experiments to prove crashworthiness of the platform; analyze results and submit thorough reports.

• Participate in crash safety, functional safety and failure avoidance analysis of complex electrical and software vehicle subsystems (HARA, FMEAs, etc.).

• Develop the passive safety architecture and related vehicle features; work with the hardware, software, architecture, safety and other cross-functional teams to deliver said features.

• Work with the design and development engineers throughout the engineering organization to ensure passive safety components have appropriate packaging, requirements and interface definition to achieve their specific vehicle functions.

• Develop detailed electrical device transmittals for various passive safety components and own the document until production.

• Design test-cases and verification of system level functions on multiple mediums (benches, lab cars and vehicles) and provide objective based directions to the vehicle safety, simulation, design and test teams.

The minimum requirements we seek:

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Embedded Systems

• Strong Electrical and Embedded Systems Engineering fundamentals

• 5+ years of experience with Vehicle Network Protocols such as CAN, LIN & Automotive Ethernet

• Experience and working knowledge of systems development, vehicle architecture, vehicle safety, emerging safety system technologies, software/hardware tool development, restraints control module calibration, functional safety, network and diagnostics process.

• 5+ years of experience designing and developing safety-critical architectures

• 3+ years of experience using embedded networking interface tools for automotive, aerospace or similar

• 5+ year of experience in designing and launching new embedded products from concept to production

Preferred Requirements:

• M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Embedded Systems

• Proven technical expertise in Vehicle Safety Systems Design and understanding of the intricacies of the subsystem

• Proficiency in fundamentals of vehicle architecture, embedded systems design, RTOSes and real-time networking

• Experiencing designing and evaluating functional safety concepts in the vehicle safety domain

• Experience in leading product development from concept to deployment

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• An eagerness to work cross-functionally in a dynamic environment where you are part of a high performing team

• A systems approach to design and development with the desire and curiosity to strive for exceptional delivery execution and continuous improvement

Salary:

• $115,000-135,000

• 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

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