Paul Ayers shares this job posting from ISTVS corporate member The Nevada Automotive Test Center (NATC).
We are pleased to draw attention to this opening to the Society’s membership:
The Nevada Automotive Test Center (NATC) is currently seeking talented candidates for a Modeling and Simulation Engineer I role at our Silver Springs, NV location. At NATC, our modeling and simulation engineers work directly with a team intent on designing, manufacturing, and testing innovative automotive mobility solutions.
Founded in 1957, the Nevada Automotive Test Center (NATC) is a privately owned, independent test, evaluation, design and engineering facility offering development and certification testing to customers worldwide. We have substantial international experience, which allows us to evaluate products intended for global markets knowledgeably and objectively. NATC has compiled an extensive database of worldwide operational and infrastructure conditions allowing accurate definition of user duty cycles and creation of test programs that are representative of service environments around the world. NATC is a leading innovator in translating real world conditions into validated virtual proving ground simulation and virtual prototyping.
NATC’s location in the great basin of Nevada allows our engineers to access terrain that can represent 85% of the world within a 150 mile radius, providing an excellent test bed for off-road mobility. NATC’s operational area includes 1200 sq. miles of natural terrain, that when coupled with 6,200 acres of privately owned test courses, create an unparalleled testing area available to our engineers to innovate and solve our customers problems. From motorcycles to M1 tanks to weapons systems to electrified autonomous vehicles, NATC has completed thousands of test programs as a one-stop shop for automotive development.
Position Summary
NATC is currently searching for an entry level modeling and simulation engineer to work closely with a senior M&S engineer and physical test engineers to generate and modify vehicle models for the purpose of running simulated vehicle evaluations. The principal activity will be to conduct, under the supervision of senior personnel, vehicle dynamics modeling, simulation, and analysis of systems and sub systems for current and next generation commercial and military ground vehicles.
Vehicle dynamics modeling tasks will consist of development of virtual models to represent vehicles still in the design phase or existing vehicles, simulation setup, simulation conduct, analysis of results, and to support adjustment and validation of the models through proving ground test. Vehicle systems requiring modeling and simulation include: chassis, suspension, steering, power train, and brakes. These individuals will be involved in the development and analysis of components, systems, and/or complete vehicles. Projects include modifications and improvements to existing vehicles, as well as development and evaluation (virtual and real world) of complete vehicle prototypes.
In addition to typical dynamic automotive simulation events, NATC works with tracked and amphibious vehicles, and has performed many exploratory and irregular modeling and simulation events. Examples of exploratory modeling and simulation including novel cross-linked suspension systems, load handling equipment dynamics studies, soft soil and overall mobility model refinement studies, structural vibration and fatigue studies, and full vehicle optimization studies. NATC wishes to further expand their capabilities in modeling and simulation fields, including novel suspension systems, hybrid powertrains, and mobility modeling including the advancement of soft soil mobility models.
Additionally, NATC intends to expand driver-in-the-loop simulation capabilities to better understand man-machine teaming. Furthermore, NATC would like to bring autonomous systems into the virtual world, not only for testing, but for training fuzzy-logic controllers.
NATC is eager to hire a modeling and simulation engineer who would like to grow within the modeling and simulation field, and is able to adapt to and solve modeling and simulation challenges in the quickly changing automotive field. Furthermore, the ideal applicant would use their knowledge of modeling and simulation and their awareness of current challenges, whether perceived within industry or not, to find novel ways to employ modeling and simulation and advance vehicle technology.