• Job Description

  Req#: 100LqT3PZ4

  Simulation Engineer

  (Direct Placement for Client)

  SIGMA DESIGN has collaborated with a global company with and office located in Fairview, Oregon to identify a Simulation Engineer to join their team. In operation for over 80 years, this company offers a broad array of solutions aimed to meet material handling needs of customer applications. Continuous innovation and building relationships with customers, suppliers and dealers have contributed to the company’s longevity and continued growth. This is a full-time permanent opportunity that offers excellent benefits package, as well as career growth!

  What’s In It For You:

  • Excellent Benefits package including medical, dental and life insurance
  • 401(k) with a company match up to 3% and profit sharing ranging from 1.4-14.9%
  • Skills training, continued education and advancement opportunities for everyone
  • A company that practices environmental responsibility
  • Work events, charitable outreach and employee resource groups
  • Salary: $90,000-110,000

  Shift: Hybrid schedule, 3 days in office, 2 days working from home after initial training period.

  Primary Function:

  As a member of the Applied Mechanics and Materials group, the candidate’s primary responsibility would be providing Finite Element and Multi-Body Dynamic simulation to support product development and concept evaluation to the functional design teams. Additional responsibilities will include working collaboratively with applied mechanics engineers in the lab to evaluate instrumentation plans, and consult on resolutions to address durability concerns identified in strain gauge testing.

  Essential Job Functions - Responsibilities:

  We are seeking a candidate who is interested in joining a cross-functional team spanning simulation and testing to evaluate structural performance of complex structures to aid design teams in product development and mitigate field issues that may arise. The ideal candidate is someone who is interested in pursuing a technically focused career path in analysis of structures.

  Education and Experience: (Knowledge, skills, & abilities)

  Minimum Qualifications:

  • BS in Mechanical Engineering + 2-4 year experience
  • MS in Relevant Area +0-2 year experience

  Desired Skills:

  • Experience using finite element analysis (FEA) software (ANSYS preferred).
  • Experience using multi-body dynamic simulation software a plus.
  • Knowledgeable in applied stress mechanics, including application of basic fundamentals such as Mohr’s circle and Hooke’s law to practical scenarios.
  • Fundamental knowledge in basic mechanical properties of materials.
  • Background in material science a plus.
  • Familiarity with basic fatigue theory such as strain-life and stress-life fatigue theories.
  • Basic scripting/coding abilities in matlab, python, or visual basic.

  Work Environment

  Standard office environment with normal amounts of office related conditions. Occasionally may be required to work in environmental conditions that emulate typical user environments in order to facilitate design testing and validation. Occasionally may be required to travel as required to other facilities, clients or suppliers.

  SIGMA DESIGN is an Equal Opportunity Employer

  SIGMADESIGN is an Equal Opportunity Employer

• About the company

  Product Development Consulting Firms in Portland, Oregon area. Engineering Camas, WA. Concept through Production design and engineering from SIGMADESIGN.

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