ADAS Performance Specialist - Ride Comfort
Chelsea · Troy, MI · Full-time · Posted Oct 9, 2026
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Chelsea · Troy, MI
About the role
- Alten Technology USA is seeking an ADAS Performance Specialist - Ride Comfort to work in Chelsea and Troy, MI.
- The overall objective is to minimize vehicle and suspension sensitivity to variation in forces induced by road surfaces, assembly build variation, vehicular architecture, and wear.
Responsibilities
- Minimize vehicle/suspension sensitivity to variation in forces induced by road surfaces, assembly build variation, vehicular architecture, and/or wear.
- Perform quality testing activities throughout all Program development phases, from up-front target setting and design definition through in-vehicle testing on prototype and pre-production properties.
- Ensure that critical components have appropriate targets/specifications to minimize sensitivity to brake rotor wear (judder), tire/wheel imbalance, vehicle lead/drift/pull, steering wander, torque steer, and vehicle shake (ride).
- Accomplish target setting through a combination of simulation, objective testing, and subjective evaluation methods.
- Execute in-vehicle development of critical components to meet the vehicle's overall ride, steering, handling, and tire performance objectives.
- Apply specialized driving skills for subjective ride, steering, routine handling, and limit handling evaluations.
- Lead all CAE/virtual analysis activity associated with steering/suspension hard-point development, steering/suspension component stiffness/damping specification, and ride/handling.
- Optimize performance for all variants of a vehicle architecture, including the formulation of design recommendations.
- Analyze and optimize suspension/steering sub-system kinematics and compliance.
Requirements
- Valid driver's license is required as well as a clean driving record - will be required to drive company vehicles.
Preferred qualifications
- Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or Equivalent from an Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) accredited university.
- Experience in chassis design/development and/or vehicle dynamics engineering experience.
- Solid understanding of system/component design/development processes.
- Experience with processes and simulation techniques associated with suspension/steering/brake system kinematics/compliance/vibration studies, vehicle ride/handling assessments, component structural analysis, and optimization.
- Experience with associated simulation tools: ADAMS/Car, Altair Motionview, Opti-struct, NASTRAN, AMEsim, CARsim, I-Sight, Matlab, Simulink, VI-Car realtime.
- Experience with driving simulator studies and associated preparation, validation, and loading of CAE/virtual models.
- Familiarity with Design Failure Mode & Effects Analysis (DFMEA) and Design Verification Plan & Report (DVP&R) structure.
- Formal training in Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) methods.
Skills
- ADAMS/Car
- Altair Motionview
- Opti-struct
- NASTRAN
- AMEsim
- CARsim
- I-Sight
- Matlab
- Simulink
- VI-Car Realtime
- NX
- Teamcenter
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- MS Office
