Resident Engineer

We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000 experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.

As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000 engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.

When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.

Summary:

• The main responsibilities of the Product Resident Engineer role is to provide technical assistance in front of the customer plant or design center referring Client products, including quality issues, for more details refer to Internal Engineering procedures.

Key Activities:

• Coordinates/support and/or participates with engineering and customer’s suppliers in the development of new product or need.
• Follow up key project milestones and accomplishment with EPL/ Eng team members (HW, Mech, SW…)
• Identifies and transmits the customer requirements to Engineering, Quality and Sales in order to prepare the design and/or production.
• Technical liason for design changes with customer and product engineering team
• PCR: Product Change Request (driven by the customer)
• PCN: Product Change Notification (driven by the suppliers)
• CTO: Cost optimization activities
• Perform or support tests at customer locations related with Client modules release.
• Support line trials to ensure smooth transition from development to production
• Support launch and built activities at customer plant.
• When necessary, identifies and analyses assembly issues in the customers manufacturing plants, supporting technical solutions.
• Support new business opportunities ( RFQ, RFI…).

Skills:

• Ability to understand the customer technical requirements and its use-cases from an end user perspective
• Good knowledge of the product and its functions
• Previous Vehicle level integration and System testing experience
• Methodical in approach
• Driving License
• Be an effective communicator, demonstrating highly developed interpersonal and negotiation skills
• Team Player, able to develop rapport with key contacts at all levels of the customer organization.
• Self motivated (self starter)
• Demonstrate problem solving ability
• Ability to work under pressure
• Willingness to travel
• High level of English and other languages depending of the customer.
• Preferably an ability to speak Spanish
• Knowledge of the procedures & techniques established in the organization and project and customer procedures

ALTEN Technology is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our Policy is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual’s age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or veteran status.

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Compliance Notice: Alten USA is a federal contractor subject to the requirements of the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) and Executive Order 11246. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Drug Screening Requirement: As a federal contractor, Alten USA maintains a drug-free workplace. All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire.