Product Design Engineer - Intermediate - PSP
Altair
Date: 1 day ago
City: Windsor, ON
Contract type: Full time

Transforming the Future with Convergence of Simulation and Data
Product Design Engineer - Intermediate - PSP
Job Summary
Our client in Windsor, ON is looking for a Product Design Engineer - Intermediate - PSP. This is a contract position.
What You Will Do
The Global Interior Lighting Product Design Engineer will be responsible for the design, development, and release of all the Interior lighting components such as smart ambient lighting, surface back lighting, dynamic lighting, overhead lighting system, Battery charge Indicator lighting, UVC lighting, courtesy, and task lighting.
Responsibilities Will Include But Not Limited To
Altair is a global technology company providing software and cloud solutions in the areas of data analytics, product development, and high-performance computing (HPC). Altair enables organizations in nearly every industry to compete more effectively in a connected world, while creating a more sustainable future. With more than 3,000 engineers, scientists, and creative thinkers in 25 countries, we help solve our customer’s toughest challenges and deliver unparalleled service, helping the innovators innovate, drive better decisions, and turn today’s problems into tomorrow’s opportunities.
Our vision is to transform customer decision making with data analytics, simulation, and high-performance computing.
For more than 30 years, we have been helping our customers integrate electronics and controls with mechanical design to expand product value, develop AI, simulation and data-driven digital twins to drive better decisions, and deliver advanced HPC and cloud solutions to support unlimited idea exploration. To learn more, please visit altair.com
Ready to go? #ONLYFORWARD
At our core we are explorers; adventures; pioneers. We are the brains behind some of the world’s most revolutionary innovations and are not only comfortable in new and unchartered waters, we dive headfirst. We are the original trailblazers that make the impossible possible, discovering new solutions to our customer’s toughest challenges.
Altair is an equal opportunity employer. Our backgrounds are diverse, and every member of our global team is critical to our success. Altair’s history demonstrations a belief that empowering each individual authentic voice reinforces a culture that thrives because of the uniqueness among our team.
Product Design Engineer - Intermediate - PSP
Job Summary
Our client in Windsor, ON is looking for a Product Design Engineer - Intermediate - PSP. This is a contract position.
What You Will Do
The Global Interior Lighting Product Design Engineer will be responsible for the design, development, and release of all the Interior lighting components such as smart ambient lighting, surface back lighting, dynamic lighting, overhead lighting system, Battery charge Indicator lighting, UVC lighting, courtesy, and task lighting.
Responsibilities Will Include But Not Limited To
- Standardization plan development, interface with product design office, vehicle development, other Interior, Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering Teams, and suppliers to design, develop and release Interior Lighting components.
- Interface between Design Studio and suppliers in the creation of functional lighting solutions that achieve design requirements.
- Maintain core lighting design practices, lessons learned, implementing innovation roadmaps as well as utilizing SPEOS lighting simulation as a lighting simulation tool, coordination, and development of advancement of new technologies and procedures to improve program timing for lighting systems, writing source packages, specifications, requirements, and change notices.
- Define Interior, Electrical, Customer interface requirements, virtual and physical validations (DFMEA / DVP&R), vehicle lighting harmonization and quality improvement activities, cost value analysis, and the supplier development and selection process, supplier management to meet program timing and deliverables.
- Follow, track and root cause build issues found during pre-production builds and vehicle issues found during development.
- Issue resolution prior to launch of the program and warranty analysis of all the components after the launch.
- A minimum of a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Mechatronics, and or Computer Engineering from an ABET accredited university.
- Minimum of 2 years of Product Design and Release in Automotive system and components.
- Minimum of 2 years in Electrical Module Hard ware development.
- Experience with Tooling feasibility in Injection molded plastics/Decorative components.
- Experience in Interior lighting and lighting simulation.
- Working knowledge of Design Failure Mode & Effects Analysis (DFMEA), PFMEA, Design Verification Plan & Report (DVP&R), CAE, GD&T, and i-Speed.
- Design and development experience in Team Center and NX.
- Proficient in Excel, Word, Power Point.
- Strong organizational, leadership and communication skills required.
- Result oriented, energetic self-starting leader with ability to direct cross –functional teams.
- Excellent communication and skills in person and virtually.
- Assembly / Production plant experience.
- Onsite/ Remote Hybrid - Onsite as needed. The percentage will change based on program timing.
- Problem solving experience, Reactive green belt certification.
- Envision the Future
- Communicate Honestly and Broadly
- Seek Technology and Business “First”
- Embrace Diversity and Take Risks
- Competitive Salary
- Comprehensive Benefit Package
- Group Retirement Savings Plan (GRSP) with matching contributions
- Paid holidays and vacation time off
- Free training on all Altair products
Altair is a global technology company providing software and cloud solutions in the areas of data analytics, product development, and high-performance computing (HPC). Altair enables organizations in nearly every industry to compete more effectively in a connected world, while creating a more sustainable future. With more than 3,000 engineers, scientists, and creative thinkers in 25 countries, we help solve our customer’s toughest challenges and deliver unparalleled service, helping the innovators innovate, drive better decisions, and turn today’s problems into tomorrow’s opportunities.
Our vision is to transform customer decision making with data analytics, simulation, and high-performance computing.
For more than 30 years, we have been helping our customers integrate electronics and controls with mechanical design to expand product value, develop AI, simulation and data-driven digital twins to drive better decisions, and deliver advanced HPC and cloud solutions to support unlimited idea exploration. To learn more, please visit altair.com
Ready to go? #ONLYFORWARD
At our core we are explorers; adventures; pioneers. We are the brains behind some of the world’s most revolutionary innovations and are not only comfortable in new and unchartered waters, we dive headfirst. We are the original trailblazers that make the impossible possible, discovering new solutions to our customer’s toughest challenges.
Altair is an equal opportunity employer. Our backgrounds are diverse, and every member of our global team is critical to our success. Altair’s history demonstrations a belief that empowering each individual authentic voice reinforces a culture that thrives because of the uniqueness among our team.
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