TECOSIM UK
Occupant Safety CAE Engineer
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Occupant Safety CAE Engineer
Position Overview
We are seeking an experienced Occupant Safety CAE Engineer with a minimum of 4 years of relevant automotive experience in crashworthiness and occupant protection.
The successful candidate must have strong hands-on experience with LS-DYNA explicit solver, ANSA, and META, and a strong understanding of FMVSS regulations, particularly occupant protection requirements. Experience with multiple global automotive safety regulations and consumer assessment protocols is highly desirable.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead occupant safety CAE activities from model preparation through simulation and post-processing.
- Develop, run, debug, and analyse occupant safety and crashworthiness simulations covering frontal, side, rear impact and restraint performance.
- Apply and interpret FMVSS requirements, particularly FMVSS 208 and FMVSS 214, and support compliance with other applicable regulations.
- Analyse occupant kinematics, injury criteria, restraint performance, airbag interaction, and vehicle/occupant response.
- Support CAE-to-test correlation and model validation against physical crash-test data.
- Work with structural CAE, restraint, airbag, testing, design, and homologation teams to identify and implement safety improvements.
- Prepare technical reports and communicate simulation results and engineering recommendations to programme teams.
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Essential Requirements
- Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Minimum 4 years' automotive CAE experience, with significant experience in occupant safety/crashworthiness.
- Strong hands-on experience using LS-Dyna explicit solver, ANSA pre-processer and META post-processor
- Strong practical knowledge of FMVSS regulations, particularly FMVSS 208 and 214.
- Experience with occupant CAE dummy models such as Hybrid III, THOR, or WorldSID.
- Experience of working with restraint system CAE models such as seatbelts and airbags.
- Experience correlating CAE results with physical crash-test data.
- Experience with multiple safety regulations and/or consumer assessment protocols such as UN/ECE, Euro NCAP, IIHS, US NCAP, China NCAP, or ASEAN NCAP.
- Good understanding of occupant safety, crashworthiness, restraint systems and occupant injury criteria
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Desirable Experience
- Experience in vehicle homologation, regulatory certification, global vehicle programmes, physical crash testing, and CAE automation using Python would be advantageous.
Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate is a hands-on Occupant Safety CAE Engineer who can independently deliver high-quality crash simulations, interpret occupant injury and kinematic results, demonstrate strong FMVSS knowledge, and translate CAE findings into practical vehicle safety improvements.
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