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Location

Santa Oliva, Tarragona | Spain

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Job description

Applus+ IDIADA is a global partner to the automotive industry with over 30 years’ experience supporting our clients in product development activities by providing design, engineering, testing, and homologation services. IDIADA’s success in product development is built on a unique blend of highly experienced engineers, state-of-the-art test and development facilities and the constant drive towards innovation. The company has over 2,850 professionals and an international network of subsidiaries and branch offices in 22 countries, ensuring our clients receive customized, added-value solutions. IDIADA offers you the opportunity to develop a professional career in one of the leading-edge automotive engineering companies. Are you ready to challenge yourself, enhance your technical skills, working in a thriving environment and alongside world-leading experts? Then, apply for one of our job vacancies. Engineering services: Comprehensive design, engineering, and validation capabilities for complete vehicle development projects: CAD, CAE and testing of all major vehicle functionalities. Proving grounds: The most comprehensive proving grounds in Europe and Asia, located in Spain and China. Both test tracks offer excellent customer support and facilities that provide the highest standards of safety and confidentiality. Homologation services in accordance with all European EC and ECE Regulations. We are also accredited for Australia, Europe, Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia and give consultancy to other countries and regions such as South America (including Brazil), China, Middle East, Gulf Countries, ASEAN, USA and Canada, among others.

Job Description

Responsible for carrying out:

• Vehicle dynamics advanced simulation activities to support attributes development programs.
• Tyre virtual model generation and integration in the virtual chassis.

Responsibilities

Perform complete vehicle and suspension simulations to provide direction to the chassis development programs, while minimizing the need for physical testing.

The main responsibilities of this role will be:

• Build chassis and complete vehicle models
• Perform virtual simulations to evaluate suspension kinematics & compliance and complete vehicle handling & ride comfort.
• Optimise chassis parameters in order to meet performance targets
• Define the tyre testing program for tyre modelling purposes
• Generate parametric and physical tyre models
• Support the virtual implementation of the physical tyre models in the full vehicle simulation (either in computer simulation or in driving simulators)
• Prepare/write project reports
• Presentation of project results and support decision making

To support project management and commercial actions:

• Presentation of project proposals and project results to customers
• Management of client communication and reporting

Qualifications

• B.S. or higher in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent.
• 1-3 years of experience in automotive chassis development with a focus on Vehicle Dynamics.
• Knowledge of vehicle dynamics theory and contributions from individual components— hardpoints, steering, springs, bars, dampers, tires, bushings, etc.—to suspension K&C and full-vehicle performance.
• Basic understanding of the performance development process, from target setting and target cascading to validation and sign-off.
• Vehicle dynamics simulation experience with multi-body (ADAMS) and/or lookup tables-based models (VI-CarRealTime, IPG CarMaker, CarSim, etc)
• Data post-processing skills.
• Basic knowledge of programming with Matlab and/or Python.

Personal

qualifications

• Detail-oriented and organised personality
• Great communication and team-working skills
• Hard-working and flexible mindset
• Proficient in spoken and written English Preferred

Additional Information

What do we offer?

• Hybrid home/office working (selected roles)
• Flexible working hours (when applicable)
• Competitive salary package and annual performance-related bonus
• Referral programme
• Training and career path opportunities
• Language courses available
• International mobility opportunities

Interested?

IDIADA offers you the opportunity to develop a career in one of the worldwide leading automotive homologation and engineering companies. If you want an opportunity to challenge yourself and enhance your technical skills, apply to this role

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