Job Overview
This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the
occupant protection and safety DNA of VinFast vehicles. As a senior technical expert, the successful candidate will play a critical role in delivering safe, robust, and compliant seat and restraint systems, influencing vehicle safety performance from early CAE development through to production sign‑off.
Experience
- Expert in seat systems and occupant restraint systems , including:
- Seats (structure, mechanisms, foams, trim, comfort and durability)
- Seatbelts (pretensioners, load limiters, anchorage systems)
- Airbags (front, side, curtain, knee, centre airbags)
- Deep technical knowledge of airbag and seatbelt system design , integration, and optimisation for occupant protection.
- Strong experience guiding development from CAE / simulation phase (airbag deployment, belt force management, dummy interaction) through to physical testing and vehicle-level validation.
- Proven ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex restraint and seat-related issues under high-pressure, time-critical development conditions.
- Solid understanding of occupant injury criteria , dummy behaviour, restraint timing, and system interactions.
- Experience correlating CAE results with sled and full vehicle crash test data , driving model improvements and design countermeasures.
- Strong understanding of how seat and restraint systems interact with BIW, interior trim, and vehicle packaging .
- Familiarity with global safety regulations and consumer test requirements (e.g. UNECE, FMVSS, Euro NCAP, US NCAP, IIHS, BNCAP, ASEAN NCAP).
- Proven capability to define, review, and enforce design rules, standards, and best practices for seats and restraint systems.
- Experience capturing and deploying lessons learned into standards and future vehicle architectures.
Responsibilities
- Act as the technical authority for seats and restraint systems across VinFast vehicle programs within the vehicle quality division
- Provide expert guidance from early CAE and concept phases through detailed design, testing, and validation.
- Lead and support resolution of all major seat-, airbag-, and seatbelt-related issues , particularly during critical program phases.
- Drive root-cause analysis and define robust corrective actions for issues identified during simulation, sled testing, or full vehicle crash tests.
- Support optimisation of restraint system timing, load paths, and occupant interaction to meet regulatory and consumer performance targets.
- Work closely with Safety CAE, Test, BIW, Interior Trim, Packaging, and Manufacturing teams to deliver fully integrated solutions.
- Review and challenge designs, simulations, and test results to ensure robustness, repeatability, and long-term quality.
- Define, review, and continuously improve technical standards, design rules, and development processes for seats and restraints.
- Provide clear, authoritative technical input to senior leadership on risks, trade-offs, and mitigation strategies.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, or a related discipline.
- 15–20+ years of experience in seats, restraint systems, and occupant safety development within industry-leading OEMs or Tier‑1 organisations.
- Exceptional depth of technical knowledge combined with strong systems-level understanding.
- Ability to lead and influence without direct line management, operating effectively as a senior technical authority.
- Excellent communication skills, capable of clearly explaining complex safety and restraint topics under pressure.
- Structured, analytical, and decisive approach to problem solving.
- Comfortable working in high-pressure, time-critical environments with significant safety accountability.
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