Design and Release Engineer, Airbags

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 a Design and Release Engineer focused on Airbags , you will be contributing to airbag maturation or design, engineering, and testing for airbags for production vehicles. You will be researching and investigating the design, functionality and maintenance of mechanical products, equipment, systems and processes focused around airbags. We focus on engineering judgment rather than engineering decisions, maintaining development history rather than making on the spot decisions, and work in an open manner rather than in isolation.

Responsibilities

• Research, design, develop, manufacture, and test tools, engines, machines and other mechanical devices.
• Research and analyze customer design proposals, specifications, manuals to determine time and cost feasibility to complete projects.
• Assist drafters in developing the structural design of products using tools, equipment or software.

Qualifications

• Airbag design experience (min 3 years in airbag design, 1 year in curtain airbag design)
• 3-5 years experience with OEM and/or Tier 1 suppliers
• Ability to make sketches, engineering drawings, and common computations.
• Ability to read and interpret blueprints, technical drawing, schematics and computer-generated reports.
• Previous experience with computer applications and software related to engineering field, such as Computer Aided Design (CAD).
• Creativity, verbal and written communication skills, analytical and problem solving ability.
• Team player and detail oriented.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering (BSME or similar) required.

Salary Range

• $100,000 - 110,000 per year
• 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

ALTEN Technology is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our Policy is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual’s age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or veteran status.

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