Lucid Motors is seeking an Engineering Manager, Chassis Quality & Validation to own and manage in-production and future program quality for suspension, steering, brakes, wheels and tires systems, ensuring that standards, lessons learned, and prevent recurrence items are correctly implemented, and to drive containment, root causing, permanent corrective action, and prevent recurrence of quality issues.
Requirements
- Proven experience with automotive quality, FMEA, DVP and system/vehicle testing
- Strong understanding of passenger vehicle testing standards, requirements and best practices
- Experience in performing testing and validation activities at system and vehicle level
- Experience in CANalyzer, CANape, Matlab, Simulink, Python
- Experience testing and development of electric vehicles
Responsibilities
- Own and manage in-production program and future program quality for suspension, steering, brakes, wheels and tires systems
- Receive, triage and prioritize new quality issues, and work closely with engineering system/component owners, design release engineers and managers to assign issue ownership, and then drive containment, root causing, permanent corrective action, and prevent recurrence.
- Own and drive the Chassis and Vehicle Dynamics DFMEA, working with component, system and attribute experts to ensure that all failure modes are identified, understood, tracked and managed.
- Manage the Chassis & Vehicle Dynamics DVPs, working closely with Technical Project Managers and system owners within Chassis & Dynamics to ensure that all validation and verification activities are correctly anticipated, planned and managed.
- Work with the Functional Safety team, system experts and Digital Engineering team to ensure that all Chassis- and Vehicle Dynamics-related functional safety workstreams are supported and completed on time and to high quality
- Manage the planning, execution and reporting of Chassis and Vehicle Dynamics test requests.
- Work with the test requestors and system experts to write test procedures, specifications and pass/fail criteria.
Other
- Experience in leading a small but high-performing team, and mentoring junior engineers
- Experience making and tracking schedules for large programs / projects.
- Organized mindset and time management skills to keep projects on track to the finish
- Track record of establishing strong processes and work procedures
- Strong communication skills to coordinate with team members, vendors and management
