Lead Dimensional Engineer – Autonomous Vehicle Sensors (Multi-Platform)

About the role

Location: Foster City, California (Onsite). This is a high-visibility, mission-critical role within our engineering organization. The successful candidate will concurrently own the dimensional management for multiple major vehicle programs. This scope spans different architectures. You will be the bridging authority between advanced sensor hardware, vehicle architecture, and manufacturing assembly. This role is built for an individual who is a master of dimensional variation and wants to directly impact the deployment of safe, autonomous fleets. Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing® in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work® in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the dimensional authority for sensor integration across parallel vehicle platforms, managing architectural workloads concurrently.
• Lead the upfront definition of vehicle build and commodity-specific functional requirements to establish a baseline for downstream Dimensional Variation Analysis (DVA) validation.
• Establish datum schemes, sensor mounting locator strategies, and tolerance allocations to ensure sensor-to-body and sensor-to-sensor co-calibration stability.
• Review and formally approve internal and supplier metrology fixture concepts, ensuring alignment with program assembly and measurement metrics.
• Define and implement comprehensive measurement strategies, identifying critical validation points from the single part level up to full vehicle assembly.
• Partner directly with Supplier Quality to evaluate supplier capability, define acceptable limits, and manage engineering escalations to protect program targets.
• Provide active architectural loop feedback regarding layout changes needed to make the vehicle body and sensor brackets reliably assemblable.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Fixture Design Engineering, or a closely related technical field.
• Experience: 8 to 10 years of dedicated experience in dimensional management, variation simulation, or metrology within the automotive, aerospace, or autonomous robotics sectors.
• Statistical Rigor: Strong understanding of Variation Simulation Analysis tools, statistical process control (SPC), and basic statistical concepts (CP, CPK, standard deviation, gauge R&R studies).
• Mindset: A proactive, solutions-oriented professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment and understands that sensor dimensional engineering is a primary driver of vehicle safety and autonomous software performance.

Skills

• Deep understanding of the unique dimensional, structural, and alignment requirements of AV sensor suites (LiDAR, Radar, Cameras).
• Proficiency in performing both 1D and 3D Dimensional Variation Analysis (DVA) stack-ups to evaluate design feasibility.
• Advanced-level proficiency in ASME Y14.5 GD&T principles, with a proven track record of creating, validating, and optimizing complex technical drawings.
• Practical expertise using CATIA V6 and 3DEXPERIENCE (3DX) to visualize, manipulate, and interrogate 3D models for dimensional evaluation.
• Strong foundational knowledge of manufacturing processes and vehicle assembly sequence.
• Ability to translate complex statistical variation data into clear, actionable architectural feedback for cross-functional teams.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans (optional layer of financial protection).
• ESPP (employee stock purchase program).
• 401K program with company match after 12 months of tenure.
• HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan).
• SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions.
• Corporate discount savings program and other discounts.
• On-demand training program, access to certification prep and library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars after 6+ months tenure, certification discounts and perks to associations (CompTIA, IIBA).
• Dedicated customer service team for consultants, certified Career Coach.
• Welcome Packet with full list of benefits, programs, support teams and resources.