Posted in Architecture 30+ days ago.
Type: Full-Time
About TPI
TPI Composites is a global provider of structural composites products and the largest U.S. based independent manufacturer of composites wind blades to major turbine manufacturers in the United States, Europe, and Asia. TPI Composites is a global provider of structural composites products and has 50 years of experience in the design, development, prototyping and serial production of advanced lightweight composite structures.
TPI Automotive also provides a full range of services that complement our customers’ extensive vehicle engineering capability. Our Automotive business customer base includes new entrants and established OEMs in the passenger vehicle, commercial vehicle, and transit bus segments. We have established our Automotive business unit as a leader in composite solutions, providing our customers with lightweight structures and components that perform better than their metallic alternatives. The composites we manufacture make vehicles more efficient through weight reduction, improved corrosion resistance, and thermal management.
About the Role
The Senior Design Engineer, Innovation will focus on “Smart composites” in our rapidly growing Automotive Division. This is a product innovation and application development position, not a research position. The goal of this position is to add electrical/electronic functionality into composite structures, applying emerging technology to create product applications to elicit customer and market interest. Develop products with high value for structural composites automotive, bus, commercial, and delivery ICE, BEV, and HEV markets.
Technology includes circuits – printed, embedded, embroidered; and sensors – piezoelectric, RFID, dielectric, pressure, light, temperature, humidity, strain, and vibration.
Applications will enhance user experience via HVAC, lighting, alertness, safety/well-being, structural health monitoring (SHM), human machine interface (HMI), and multi-functional energy storage composites (MESC).
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Who we’re looking for:
Location
This position is based at our Automotive Innovation Development Center and composite products manufacturing site in Warren, Rhode Island. Relocation benefits will be provided for the right individual.
TPI Composites, Inc |
TPI Composites, Inc |
TPI Composites, Inc |