Attribute Concepts Simulation & Design Quality Manager

Manager– Attribute Concepts Simulation & Design Quality

Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
Department: Vehicle Quality Assessment

Position Context

Lead the development of feasible, lightweight, and cost-effective vehicle and system concepts through function-based engineering, simulation, and design quality assessment. The role establishes achievable targets, resolves integration risks, and guides architecture and design decisions to deliver lean development with fewer iterations and robust product performance.

Position Responsibilities

• Lead function-based concept development: Establish how vehicle and system functions translate into architecture, load paths, component requirements, and integration strategies.
  
• Direct detailed feasibility reviews: Challenge proposed designs at component, subsystem, and vehicle levels, considering functional performance, manufacturing capability, assembly, serviceability, weight, and cost.
  
• Lead integration risk assessment: Ensure critical interfaces, joints, mounts, and connections are assessed for failure mechanisms, their consequences, and the evidence needed to demonstrate robustness.
  
• Establish feasible engineering targets: Guide the allocation of vehicle requirements to systems and components. Review target justification, engineering margins, and sensitivity to usage and production variation.
  
• Resolve design trade-offs: Lead decisions where Safety, Durability, NVH, packaging, weight, cost, or manufacturing requirements conflict; define acceptable solutions and document residual risks.
  
• Drive lightweight and value engineering: Set priorities for material efficiency, part consolidation, functional integration, architecture commonality, and reduction of unnecessary design complexity.
  
• Define assessment depth: Select the appropriate combination of calculations, concept models, detailed simulations, benchmarking, and physical testing according to risk and design maturity.
  
• Enable lean development: Front-load critical decisions, focus resources on high-risk uncertainties, and align simulation and validation plans to reduce rework and late design changes.
  
• Govern design quality decisions: Establish review criteria and provide evidence-based recommendations for concept selection, design freeze, and tooling readiness.
  
• Lead complex issue resolution: Coordinate root cause investigations across Design, CAE, Manufacturing, Suppliers, and Validation; verify that corrective actions address the failure mechanism.
  

Requirements

Position Requirements

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Automotive, Aerospace Engineering, or a related discipline.
  
• Minimum 8 years of relevant automotive experience, including technical leadership or team management.
  
• Demonstrated experience leading vehicle or system concept development, integration assessments, and simulation-driven design decisions.
  

Technical Knowledge & Skills

• Strong expertise in vehicle architecture, functional decomposition, structural mechanics, and multidisciplinary attribute integration.
  
• Ability to examine detailed design features and judge their functional necessity, feasibility, failure risks, and contribution to weight and cost.
  
• Experience establishing and allocating engineering targets using load cases, failure mechanisms, manufacturing capability, and justified margins.
  
• Proven capability in lightweight design, value engineering, design optimization, and manufacturing feasibility.
  
• Depth in at least one core attribute discipline, with sufficient breadth to review cross-disciplinary conclusions and resolve trade-offs.
  
• Ability to assess simulation credibility, correlation quality, uncertainty, and the validation evidence required for design decisions.
  
• Strong working knowledge of design failure mode analysis, robust design, joining technologies, and automotive development milestones.
  

Leadership & Professional Skills

• Proven ability to challenge assumptions constructively and lead practical cross-functional decisions.
  
• Ability to prioritize critical risks, guide engineers, and drive technical issue closure across programs.
  
• Strong stakeholder management and clear English communication.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in electric vehicle architecture, battery integration, and platform commonality.
  
• Experience establishing concept feasibility and design quality processes within an OEM or Tier-1 organization.
  

Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based rewards.
  
• Premium healthcare package, including PVI insurance and annual health check-ups.
  
• Preferential pricing for services within the Vingroup ecosystem.
  
• Opportunity to work on advanced EV, ADAS, and Autonomous Driving technologies.
  
• Professional development and collaboration with experienced automotive engineering teams.
  

Work Location: Technopark Tower, Gia Lam, Ha Noi, Vietnam.