CAE - Engineer/Senior Engineer/Principal Engineer

Polestar is an electric performance brand, determined to improve the society we live in. Our focus is on uncompromised design and technology. We constantly redefine the norm and challenge ourselves to shine. Passion and emotion drive us, electricity and innovation drive our cars. Our products are excellent, efficient, and entertaining.

In Polestar’s future, there is no room for shortcuts, excuses, or compromises. We are all in, dedicated on our ambition. Guiding our industry forward through pure, progressive performance.

Due to aggressive growth plans Polestar is currently looking to recruit CAE talents.

Let us describe the challenge we offer
In our UK R&D department we are expanding our CAE capability, this is your chance to join this team and work with us on a diverse set of projects. You will have opportunity to tackle a broad range of tasks, both implicit and explicit, and will work closely with our design engineers to codevelop innovative solutions.

What you’ll do:
You will work on a diverse set of structural FEA tasks for a range of different engineering design teams. While working on each task you will be integrated into the design process, providing direct CAE support to the designers, assessing a range of structural loadcases. Your duties will include;

• Implicit linear static FEA, extracting stiffness and strength results as appropriate
• Explicit FEA, crash and impact across a range of loadcases
• Optimisation studies, topology and sizing.
• Correlation of CAE against physical test
• Working closely with our CAE Integration team to develop our material cards and CAE methodologies

Who you are
To be a great fit for this position you will need to be a highly motivated engineer with a keen interest in simulation activities and a proactive approach to problem solving. You will need to possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

You must have significant experience in the application of CAE within the automotive industry, particularly:

• A broad experience in automotive structural CAE across a range of different systems.
• A proven track record of delivering innovative CAE solutions
• Experience with explicit FEA in LS DYNA is essential
• Experience with implicit FEA in Nastran/Optistruct is preferred
• Experience with FEA pre and post processors such as Hyperworks or Ansa/Meta is essential
• Familiarity with scripting languages such as Python is useful.

You should hold qualifications in Engineering at degree level or higher.

At Polestar, you will be part of a cross-functional and international team, with English as a natural language for written and spoken communication. Since Polestar’s in a scale-up phase you thrive by working in a fast-paced environment.

People at Polestar
We know that a change is needed. We also know that each one of us can help bring about that change. Our commitment to becoming climate-neutral by 2040 is just as important to us as being inclusive, diverse, and innovative. Together, we are creating, collaborating and experimenting to usher in a new era of sustainable mobility.
We are an electric performance brand, determined to improve the society we live in.

If you believe you have what it takes to work at the heart of automotive innovation, then we look forward to reviewing your application.

At Polestar, the sky is not the limit.

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