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Design Systems Application Engineer
ICONMA, LLC
- 🇺🇸 United States
- On-site
- 17 hours ago
- $64.57 – $69.58 / hour
- Design Systems
- CAD
- Risk Management
- Change Management
- Beam
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Responsibilities:
- Interface definition and control
- Packaging validation
- Functional clearance verification
- Tolerance stack-up assessment
- Manufacturing compatibility reviews
- Assembly feasibility assessments
- Serviceability evaluations
- Design release recommendations
- Duty cycle definition and verification
- Damage and failure mode analysis
- Lead vehicle packaging reviews and identify interface conflicts early in the development process.
- Evaluate impacts of component movement, geometry changes, and architecture decisions on surrounding vehicle systems.
- Drive technical resolution of integration, packaging, and interface concerns across multiple organizations.
- Virtual Development & Systems Validation
- Schedule and lead cross-functional design reviews across PRC and supporting engineering organizations.
- Coordinate virtual analysis activities and CAE reviews.
- Ensure Virtual DVP and Engineering Scorecards are completed prior to prototype hardware releases.
- Lead FC/CAD integration activities and digital mockup reviews.
- Coordinate digital validation of component and subsystem interfaces.
- Support engineering release readiness through design assessments and model reviews.
- Develop and maintain system-level requirements within virtual development environments.
- Review system validation status with the Development Validation Center and provide periodic readiness assessments to Chief Engineering leadership.
- Ensure validation plans, design verification activities, and technical signoffs support robust product development.
- Technical Risk Management & Quality Leadership:
- Identify system architecture, integration, packaging, structural, manufacturing, and validation risks.
- Lead root cause investigations and technical problem-solving activities.
- Establish mitigation plans and drive technical closure of issues.
- Coordinate Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (DFMEA) and Design Review Based on Failure Mode (DRBFM) activities.
- Ensure robust design controls and development actions are established and maintained.
- Lead cross-functional quality and issue-resolution task forces.
- Manage GIMS investigations and technical issue tracking.
- Coordinate DRBTR reviews and maintain accountability for open actions and follow-up items.
- Recommend escalation paths and resource requirements to ensure program success.
- Product Development, Change Management & Governance:
- Review and approve engineering change notices and design modifications.
- Ensure lessons learned, engineering checklists, technical standards, and engineering best practices are updated and incorporated into future designs.
- Act as the Chief Engineer's representative for program lessons learned activities.
- Collaborate with Technical Specialists and Centers of Excellence to continuously improve technical standards and design practices.
- Manage engineering complexity and assembly part number strategies.
- Maintain BOM structures and complexity charts for axle, driveline, transfer case, and gear reducer systems.
- Coordinate engineering release readiness and design freeze activities.
- Cost Optimization & Program Support:
- Lead Technical Cost Reduction (TCR) and Value Optimization initiatives.
- Work closely with PRC, DVC, suppliers, purchasing, and value optimization teams to identify cost-saving opportunities.
- Support Chief Engineering leadership with:
- Resource planning
- Manpower forecasting
- Engineering budgets
- ER&D / ED&D cost rollups
- New program planning
- Support business case development and program execution strategies.
- Cross-Functional Leadership & Supplier Management
- Serve as the primary systems engineering interface between:
- Chief Engineering, Product Release Center, Manufacturing, Suppliers, Validation organizations, Vehicle engineering teams
- Facilitate technical consensus and decision-making across organizations.
- Challenge design assumptions where necessary to ensure optimal technical outcomes.
- Lead supplier technical reviews and integration discussions.
- Drive accountability, execution, and alignment across all stakeholders.
- Work on special projects and strategic initiatives as assigned.
Requirements:
- Required Technical Expertise
- Vehicle Systems
- Beam axle systems
- Independent axle systems
- Driveline systems
- Transfer cases
- Prop shafts
- Chassis systems
- Suspension systems
- Steering systems
- Brake systems
- Vehicle dynamics fundamentals
- 4WD/AWD systems
- Product Development Tools & Processes:
- CAD and Digital Mockup Reviews
- FC/CAD Integration
- Virtual Development Processes
- Engineering Change Management
- BOM Management
- Interface Control Documentation
- Design Freeze Processes
- Validation Planning and Execution
- nCode Analysis
- Duty Cycle Development
- Data Acquisition and Synthesis
- Program Launch Readiness
- GIMS and Quality Management Processes
- Critical Competencies:
- Technical Leadership
- System-level thinking
- Architecture development and decision making
- Complex problem solving
- Cross-functional integration leadership
- Technical trade-off analysis
- Risk identification and mitigation
- Influence & Communication:
- Ability to challenge technical assumptions constructively
- Facilitate engineering consensus
- Lead technical reviews and decision forums
- Translate vehicle-level requirements into actionable engineering deliverables
- Drive supplier and stakeholder alignment
- Execution & Accountability:
- Strong ownership mindset
- High attention to technical detail
- Ability to manage multiple complex technical issues simultaneously
- Proactive issue identification and escalation
- Commitment to program timing, deliverables, and quality objectives
- Ability to lead teams through ambiguity and drive closure of critical actions
Why Should You Apply?
- Health Benefits
- Referral Program
- Excellent growth and advancement opportunities
Design Systems Application Engineer · ICONMA, LLC