Design Engineer

As a successful family-owned company on a path to global growth, the Brose Group offers challenging responsibilities and exciting career opportunities to performance-driven, skilled specialists with solid professional knowledge and proven career expertise who wish to contribute to our company’s success.

Your tasks

• Lead all design-related activities for assigned programs across the full product lifecycle, with a focus on electric motor systems and components (from concept through production release).
• Drive development of optimized design solutions, ensuring performance, efficiency, and manufacturability of motor-driven applications.
• Represent design engineering in Development Team Meetings (EAK), ensuring compliance with Brose standards and customer requirements.
• Participate in formal and informal design reviews (Design Checklists, DFMEA, specification reviews), with emphasis on motor performance, durability, and integration.
• Ensure designs meet key milestones to support timely product releases.
• Monitor and ensure product conformance to customer specifications, internal standards, and motor performance requirements.
• Support validation of designs through analysis (e.g., FEA, force/performance calculations) and testing.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to assess project capacity needs and support program execution.
• Mentor junior engineers in motor-related design best practices, kinematics, and CAD systems.
• Ensure adherence to the Product Development Process (PDP) throughout all phases.

Your Profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering (or related field) or equivalent experience.
• 6–8 years of experience in automotive design engineering, with strong exposure to electric motor systems, actuators, or drive mechanisms.
• Demonstrated experience in electric motor design, integration, or application within automotive systems (e.g., window regulators, seat systems, closure systems, or similar motor-driven products).
• Strong technical skills including:
• CAD Systems: CATIA V5, ENOVIA, Kinematics development and analysis, FEA and applying results to design improvements, Tolerance stack-up and GD&T, Performance and force calculation tools
• Hands-on experience with motor-related systems such as actuation, torque/force requirements, or electromechanical integration strongly preferred.
• Experience with braking, steering, or thermal systems is a plus, but motor expertise is the primary focus.

Brose offers a high-tech work environment and a wide range of benefits. Along with competitive performance-based compensation and health insurance, our employees also benefit from attractive social and family-oriented programs throughout our North American locations*. Our benefits packages include comprehensive medical and insurance. Brose also provides educational assistance and a variety of community outreach, family, and sporting events. Flexible working hours and a collaborative work environment give our employees the freedom to balance work and personal life. Brose believes in investing in people. We offer a wide range of development programs with great opportunity for individual growth through training, international or regional assignments and tailored career paths. Our objective is to provide our employees the tools necessary to live a balanced life, experience a rewarding work environment and contribute to our surrounding communities.

*Benefits package may vary slightly per location