Design Release Engineer Boosted System
MARTIN Technologies is seeking a Design Release Engineer to develop and release superchargers, fuel injectors, and fuel rails. The role integrates boost and fuel-delivery performance with engine packaging, combustion, emissions, durability, and manufacturing requirements.
Responsibilities
Lead supercharger component development and release; coordinate thermal, drive-system, lubrication, noise, and durability reviews with suppliers and technical experts.
Develop port fuel injection (PFI) and direct injection (DI) injectors and fuel rails, coordinating cylinder-head, electrical, controls, calibration, and pressure-sensor interfaces.
Manage fuel safety, combustion and emissions impacts, manufacturing variation, and end-of-line test requirements; coordinate fuel-rail installation interfaces with vehicle integration teams.
Guide CAD models and drawings; coordinate CAE, calculations, and test correlation. Maintain traceable requirements, interface specifications, configuration control, and approved releases.
Lead DFMEA, DVP&R, and APQP activities; support PPAP, prototype builds, validation, production readiness, and launch.
Resolve failures and engineering changes with suppliers and specialists; assess cost, mass, timing, tooling, manufacturing, service, and validation impacts. Track risks, actions, and recovery plans; maintain technical records and lessons learned.
Required qualifications
At least five years of automotive component development experience, including design release, validation, and launch responsibility on at least one production program in the relevant technical domain.
Mechanical design and materials fundamentals, sealing, GD&T, tolerance analysis, and design for manufacturing, assembly, serviceability, reliability, and warranty prevention.
Proficiency with PLM, BOM, CAD-viewing, requirements, change-management, and issue-tracking systems.
Supplier management, professional written and spoken English, and evidence-based problem solving using 8D, 5-Why, fault-tree, and fishbone analysis.
Technical skills
Superchargers: Roots and twin-screw fundamentals, compressor maps and efficiency, rotor timing and clearances, drive loads and torsional behavior, bearings and lubrication, surge/choke characterization, overspeed and durability testing, and noise and gear-whine mitigation.
Boost thermal management, intercooler and water-cooled charge air cooler (WCAC) integration, calibration interfaces, and performance, emissions, and onboard diagnostic (OBD) impacts.
Injectors: PFI and DI architecture, spray targeting, head and rail interfaces, flow characterization, deposits, leakage, thermal robustness, fuel compatibility, high-pressure fuel safety, and electrical and calibration integration.
Fuel rails: PFI architecture, fuel-pulse and pressure-wave behavior, injector and sensor integration, brazed and welded construction, pressure-cycle fatigue, leak testing, thermal and vapor control, fuel corrosion, manufacturing variation, and end-of-line controls.
Preferred education
Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, or a related engineering discipline preferred. Equivalent technical education and relevant experience will be considered.
Work environment
On-site collaboration with OEM, supplier, laboratory, and manufacturing teams. Travel to engineering and production facilities may be required. Follow applicable safety and confidentiality requirements.