Senior Engineer - Design Automation

The Advanced Manufacturing Innovation Centre is seeking engineers who want to innovate and apply their knowledge to the challenges of industry and society to support Smart Design activities within AMIC’s advanced manufacturing activities.

You will apply your specialist knowledge and experience of design automation in the development of new methods and processes, automation of elements of the concept design and detailed design process, and integration of manufacturing and materials data into design tools, to generate innovative research outputs which have a direct economic and technical benefit to companies and sectors.

The initial 18 months of this project will be working on a collaborate research programme called Re-Imagining Engineering Design (RIED) where you will develop key technologies focussed on smart design automation, such as automated scripts and standard operating procedures for the automation of design tasks, working collaboratively with your team, industry, technology providers, national technology centres and academia.

About the person:

The successful candidate must have, and your application should clearly demonstrate that you meet the following criteria:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent in computing, engineering or a related discipline with significant relevantindustrial experience OR minimum HND in a related discipline with extensive recent and relevant industrial experience.
• Recent, relevant experience and in-depth knowledge in the application of design. technology, with clearexperience of using CAD and/or FE analysis solutions.
• Experience in a range of Industrial Digital Technologies relating to smart design.
• Demonstrable evidence of working within multifaceted environments delivering to deadlines and within budget.
• Experience of using research/industrial tools and techniques resulting in high quality projects and technical reports.

To be successful at shortlisting stage, please ensure you clearly evidence in your application how you meet the essential and, where applicable, desirable criteria listed in the Candidate Information documenet on our website.

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