Job Title: Design Engineer – Harness CAE.
Location: Raymond, Ohio (Onsite).
Role: Contract/Full-time.
Job Description:
- We are seeking a skilled Harness CAE Designer to support end-to-end automotive harness development activities for vehicle development programs.
- The engineer will work onsite and use Siemens Capital CAE tools to develop logical and physical harness designs, generate manufacturing outputs, validate design data, and support comparison, workflow, and change-management activities.
- The role requires strong knowledge of automotive electrical systems, harness architecture, connectivity, and design documentation.
Key Responsibilities:
- Perform end-to-end automotive harness development using Siemens Capital CAE tools.
- Develop logical wiring architecture models, including power distribution, ground distribution, and signal/communication networks.
- Create physical harness designs including topology, bundle structure, routing, splices, branches, breakouts, and connector/terminal assignments.
- Reference or import harness data from CATIA V5/V6 to extract 3D routing information and design intent.
- Reference or import logical network data from EAZ to extract connectivity and electrical characteristic information.
- Generate manufacturing-ready deliverables such as 2D harness drawings, BOMs, wire lists, connectivity reports, splice/joint tables, and shielding/grounding reports.
- Execute design validation activities including electrical rule checks, design consistency checks, and analysis support for circuit protection and voltage-drop readiness where applicable.
- Support comparison and benchmarking of Siemens Capital outputs against legacy CATIA/EAZ outputs and prepare gap/delta analysis reports.
- Maintain revision-controlled harness datasets and ensure traceability between logical, physical, and released design data.
- Prepare technical documentation, workflow/process documentation, issue logs, and design review presentation materials.
- Collaborate with supplier stakeholders to support delivery, issue resolution, and continuous improvement of harness design workflows.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Electronics Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Automobile Engineering, or a related field.
- Hands-on experience in automotive wiring harness design and development.
- Strong proficiency in Siemens Capital / Capital CAE tools for harness design.
- Experience with CATIA V5/V6 in relation to harness routing, packaging, or data extraction.
- Working knowledge of automotive electrical architecture, schematics, connectivity, and harness documentation.
- Ability to interpret and develop logical and physical harness designs with strong attention to engineering quality and release readiness.
- Experience generating harness manufacturing deliverables such as BOMs, drawings, wire lists, and reports.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Ability to work independently onsite and coordinate effectively with cross-functional teams.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with EAZ network data and legacy harness toolchains.
- Exposure to harness analysis, simulation support data preparation, or downstream integration with tools such as SPICE or Ansys TwinBuilder.
- Knowledge of change/configuration management, release processes, and traceability in vehicle electrical development.
- Python knowledge for automation, integration, or data-processing activities.
- Experience supporting design reviews, benchmarking studies, and process improvement initiatives.
Key Skills:
- Siemens Capital.
- Automotive wiring harness development.
- Logical architecture.
- Physical harness design.
- CATIA V5/V6.
- EAZ.
- 3D routing.
- Connectivity analysis.
- BOM generation.
- Manufacturing drawings.
- Design validation.
- Issue tracking.
- Technical documentation.
- Cross-functional collaboration.
