Job Duties
Staff Engineers, R&D for Westmont, IL location. Develop, enhance, test, and maintain mixed lubrication sub-models in the context of rigid/flexible multi-body dynamics (MBD), kinematics, contact mechanics models applicable to dynamics, durability, noise, vibration, friction and wear issues in powertrain, vehicle and general mechanical subsystems. Work on projects focused on performance, scalability, user-friendliness, and 3D visualization aspects of MBD and tribological models. Test computational models within integrated simulations of real-life systems aimed at addressing customers’ product design, performance and durability issues. Collaborate with other developers and application engineers on functional and I/O requirements and design of simulation models. Adapt existing tribological models to user requirements. Technical skills: computational tribology; research in the field of computational tribology (surface and contact science) and lubricant rheology applicable to automotive powertrain systems; Knowledge of friction, wear, hydrodynamic, elasto-hydrodynamic, and mixed lubrication of conformal and counter-formal contacts including gears, bearings, seals and other mechanical couplings; techniques for the reduction of frictional power losses in mechanical systems; theory of elasticity and strength of engineering materials; Programming with Fortran and C++; OpenMP parallelization techniques and tools aimed at faster execution of computational models; numerical methods.
Requirements
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering or related field required. Required Skills: Education or experience with: computational tribology; research in the field of computational tribology (surface and contact science) and lubricant rheology applicable to automotive powertrain systems; Knowledge of friction, wear, hydrodynamic, elasto-hydrodynamic, and mixed lubrication of conformal and counter-formal contacts including gears, bearings, seals and other mechanical couplings; techniques for the reduction of frictional power losses in mechanical systems; theory of elasticity and strength of engineering materials; Programming with Fortran and C++; OpenMP parallelization techniques and tools aimed at faster execution of computational models; numerical methods. Some telecommuting permitted. Periodic minimal travel to customer sites, trade shows, and industry conferences required. $110,780-130,780/yr.
