Hiring: Senior CAE Simulation and Modeling Engineer Company: BorgWarner Location: Ithaca, NY Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 15:58:52 Employment Type: Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : MATLAB, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Product Strategy About the job Experience: •ANSYS Workbench—Mechanical, Acoustics, nCode, Fluent, Motion, LS-DYNA, and related modules. •Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook •SMT MASTA, ROMAX, MATLAB preferred Required Skills: •Define and execute CAE strategies using ANSYS and other appropriate tools to support functional performance, structural integrity, fatigue, durability, NVH, thermal, and fluid-flow requirements. •Serve as the technical authority for modeling approaches, assumptions, boundary conditions, material models, acceptance criteria, verification, validation, mesh convergence, sensitivity, uncertainty, and correlation practices. •Translate customer, system, and product requirements into CAE targets and verification plans; identify technical risk and determine when analytical evidence is sufficiently mature to support design decisions and product release. •Lead technical reviews and resolution of complex, cross-disciplinary issues spanning products, programs, suppliers, and global engineering teams; clearly communicate conclusions, limitations, risks, and recommendations to technical and business leadership. •Develop and maintain CAE technology roadmaps, modeling standards, reusable methods, reduced-order models, automation tools, lessons learned, and capability-development priorities across programs and locations. •Lead through influence and mentor engineers and subject-matter experts while coordinating internal teams, suppliers, universities, and engineering service providers to improve functional performance, durability, NVH, mass, cost, efficiency, quality, and first-time-right design maturity. •Establish and report measurable business impact from CAE, including reductions in physical prototypes, validation cycles, development timing, product cost, technical risk, and warranty exposure. •Promote innovation by identifying emerging simulation technologies and, where appropriate, contributing to invention disclosures, patents, technical papers, and external technical forums. Qualifications: •Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and technical-reporting skills, including the ability to communicate with technical and nontechnical audiences. •8+ years of CAE/FEA experience supporting functional performance, durability, and NVH in automotive powertrain, driveline, or VCT applications, including VCT components, chain guides, tensioners, transfer cases, gearboxes, or electric drive modules. •Demonstrated experience in the design and analysis of automotive VCT systems and components such as gears, guides, tensioners, actuator systems, chains, and sprockets. •Advanced proficiency with ANSYS Mechanical Workbench for static, nonlinear, dynamic, fatigue, and modal FEA. •Able to handle multiple projects simultaneously •Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional technical teams without formal authority, mentor experienced engineers, and influence product architecture and business decisions Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!