DESCRIPTION

Apply specialized mechanical engineering principles and design practices to create optimized design concepts and mechanical design specifications considering application, cost, weight, performance, reliability, durability, manufacturing, assembly, and serviceability. Communicate the capability of a design concept to meet cross-functional requirements including assessment of alternative and competitive design concepts, and work effectively across cross-functional disciplines to develop corporate and customer requirements. Solve product problems to protect the customer, determine the assignable cause and identify systemic root causes and recommend actions to prevent problem reoccurrence. Create and develop a holistic product platform including key architectural feature and function variants needed to align with market level product plans of future target markets. Obtain input and lead the negotiation with cross-functional and cross-discipline technical experts and senior-level designs to communicate the component and subsystem design intent through a thorough Design Review package to the Product Preceding Technology (PPT), Value Package Introduction (VPI), or Value Package Change Request (VPCR) team requiring a holistic assessment for various design concepts. Utilize computer programming in Mechanical Design and Mechanical System Design for designs requirements of all lifecycle stages by considering the customer requirements in different operating environments to ensure a robust system. Lead the design decision making in the areas of component and subsystem design concept selection, concept optimization, and design specifications that impact end-users targeted to be served by a given PPT, VPI, or VPCR initiative. Lead the execution of processes including Critical Design Decisions, System Design and Validation Consideration Checklist, Design Review and tools such as IDFMEA, GD&T, CREO, ANSYS Workbench required to enable high quality subsystem-level design decision making and design refinement. Translate the value package requirements that include the voices of many stakeholders into virtual designs, and communicate the capability and integration of the design through an approved cross-functional design review. Create Computer Aided Design models in accordance with company standards to represent architectural or product level system design concepts and to enable completion of various system-level computer analyses such as Dimensional Variation Analysis and Finite Element Analysis. Utilize System Requirements Engineering to translate stakeholder needs into verifiable requirements to which designs are developed, and establish acceptance criteria for the system of interest through analysis, allocation and negotiation.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Positions require a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Automotive or Systems Engineering, or related field and 5 years of experience as a Design, Product, Validation or Systems Engineer, or related position. Alternatively, the employer will accept a Master’s degree in Mechanical, Automotive or Systems Engineering, or related and 3 years of experience as a Design, Product, Validation or Systems Engineer, or related position. Experience to include: Product Problem Solving; Product Platform Planning and Architecting; Value Package Introduction (VPI), or Value Package Change Request (VPCR); Utilize computer programming in Mechanical Design and Mechanical System Design; IDFMEA, GD&T, CREO, ANSYS Workbench; Cross-Functional Design Integration; Computer Aided Design models; Dimensional Variation Analysis and Finite Element Analysis; System Requirements Engineering.

QUALIFICATIONS

Start Date of Posting: 03/19/2026

End Date of Posting: 04/03/2026

Position Type: On-site

Location: Stoughton, WI

*Annual USD Salary Minimum – Maximum $116,522 – 128,400

Job Engineering

Organization Cummins Inc.

Role Category On-site with Flexibility

Job Type Exempt - Experienced

Min Salary $

Max Salary $

ReqID 2426080

Relocation Package Yes

100% On-Site Yes

Due to the operational nature and specific job duties of this role, work is required to be completed 100% in person/On-site.

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