Automotive Design Release Engineer - Body Exterior Systems

About the Role

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.

The Design Release Engineer will be responsible for the engineering, design, development, timing, and validation of wipers and washing systems components (e.g., wiper modules, washer bottles, hoses, and nozzles). This includes analyzing the design to ensure it meets requirements and working with the extended vehicle team for production implementation and competitive benchmarking. The Body Exterior Vision Component Engineer will execute component standardization and reuse, DVP, best practices, and lessons learned, and will maintain functional objectives, DFMEAs, DVPRs, and standards.

You will support meetings throughout North American work hours and work closely with local engineering teams, Architecture/Vehicle Concepts, program science teams, and PDO with iterative models to align with all packaging, functional objectives, and system requirements.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, design, develop, and validate wipers and washing systems components (wiper modules, washer bottles, hoses, nozzles).
• Analyze designs to ensure they meet requirements and support production implementation.
• Execute component standardization, reuse, Design Verification Plans (DVP), best practices, and lessons learned.
• Maintain functional objectives, DFMEAs, DVPRs, and standards.
• Collaborate with local engineering teams, Architecture/Vehicle Concepts, program science teams, and PDO to align with packaging, functional objectives, and system requirements.
• Support meetings throughout North American work hours.

Requirements

• Minimum of a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace, or Materials Engineering from an ABET-accredited university.
• Self-starter with strong leadership, communication skills, and demonstrated problem-solving ability.
• Proficient in MS-Office applications (PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Outlook).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in body exterior systems and wipers systems.
• Experience with Design Verification Plan & Report (DVP&R).
• Knowledgeable in NX and Teamcenter (TC) release experience.
• Body systems in-plant launch experience.
• Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) green or black belt certification.
• Shainin/Kepner-Tregoe reactive problem-solving experience.
• Experience with Design Failure Mode & Effects Analysis (DFMEA).

Benefits

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 federal contractor, ALTEN USA maintains a drug-free workplace. All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire.