Safety Performance Engineer

About the role

The Safety Performance Engineer is responsible for leading the safety development activities for their assigned vehicle programs to ensure all identified safety functional objectives are achieved. They support impact script development, identify design enablers, and execute component and full vehicle test plans.

Responsibilities

• Lead safety development activities and ensure achievement of safety functional objectives.
• Support safety target setting and execution of vehicle-level test plans, including crash regulatory and third-party ratings.
• Support vehicle integration and validation by owning safety performance, leading attribute teams, and supporting safety tech clubs.
• Execute vehicle program requests and influence design decisions.
• Investigate vehicle issues to determine root causes, issue documentation for resolution, and lead cross-discipline issue resolution.
• Responsible for physical and component testing, planning, vehicle build, pre-test preparation, and execution from concept through launch.
• Interact with the CAE team for virtual validation assessments.
• Travel to Chelsea Proving Grounds as required.

Qualifications

• Strong technical acumen.
• Exceptional communication and organizational skills.