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With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.\nAs 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.\nWhen 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.\nWorkplace: On-site, 4 days per week. Friday, Remote.\nLocation: Long Beach, CA\nYou will own the mechanisms that customers touch every day. Hoods, liftgates, doors, fuel and charge port doors, running boards, tonneau systems and the exterior accessories that hang off them. This is a clean sheet program, not a carryover, which means you will define kinematics, effort targets and hardware architecture rather than inherit them. You will personally build and drive the CAD, run the studies that prove the motion works, and stay with the component through DV, PV and launch. The team is small and flat, so the engineer who owns the design also owns the supplier, the build issues and the fix.\nResponsibilities \n\nOwn exterior mechanism components end to end, from concept and packaging through design, validation and production launch.\n\nDesign and release hinges, latches, strikers, check links, gas struts and spindle drives, actuators, cables and linkage systems, working to opening and closing effort targets, cycle life and load cases.\n\nBuild and maintain your own CAD in 3DX and CATIA. Develop kinematic studies, motion envelopes, swing paths, tolerance stacks and clearance to surrounding structure, sheet metal and trim.\n\nDefine and drive DFMEA, DVP&R, and test plans. Work with test and validation teams to close open items and document compliance evidence.\n\nApply design for manufacturing across injection molded, sheet metal and stamped components, including draft, gate and parting line strategy, tooling feasibility, and forming and weld constraints.\n\nSource and manage suppliers through the full development cycle: technical reviews, design gates, tooling kickoff, PPAP support, and issue resolution on their side and ours.\n\nSupport prototype and pilot builds hands on. Be at the vehicle, find the root cause, and drive the change through release.\n\nCoordinate with Studio, Body, Closures, Interiors, Electrical and Manufacturing to hold design intent while resolving competing requirements.\n\nManage part release, change actions and BOM accuracy through the program's PLM and change control process.\nRequired Qualifications \n\nBachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related discipline.\n\n5 or more years of automotive or comparable product development experience owning mechanical components through launch.\n\nDirect design and release experience on mechanisms, linkages, hinges, latches, struts or similar motion hardware.\n\nDemonstrated hands on CAD ownership. You built the geometry yourself and can walk through the decisions in it.\n\nWorking knowledge of injection molding and sheet metal manufacturing processes and their design constraints.\n\nExperience with GD&T, tolerance stack analysis, DFMEA and DVP&R.\n\nSupplier facing experience through tooling, build and launch.\n\nAbility to work onsite in Long Beach.\nPreferred Qualifications \n\nExperience on a clean sheet or startup vehicle program where the process was still being defined.\n\nClosures, exterior trim or accessories commodity background.\n\n3DX and CATIA V6 proficiency.\n\nKinematic simulation, motion analysis or CAE experience beyond basic modeling.\n\nVehicle launch experience at a plant, including build support, issue tracking and containment.\n\nExposure to power closure systems, sensors or ADAS component integration into exterior surfaces.\nSalary Range\n\n$125,000 - 140,000\n\nThe 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 \nAll qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, or pregnancy.\nPlease beware of job seeker scams and see this important notice on our careers page for more information about our recruiting process.\nCompliance Notice: Alten USA is a federal contractor subject to the requirements of the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) and Executive Order 11246. 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