Job Title: Design Engineer
Location: Newark, CA
Employment: Temp (12 months)
Industry: Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
Compensation: $101.63/hr.
Schedule: 40 hours/week
About the Opportunity:
- Be a significant contributor to a worldclass Interior Components and Systems engineering team.
- Create industryleading Interior Components and Systems with groundbreaking luxury, craftsmanship, performance, safety, ergonomics, and functionality.
- Contribute to the packaging, engineering, release, and launch of Interior Components and Systems across the client's portfolio.
Why You'll Love Working Here:
- Supportive, team-driven culture that values collaboration, transparency, and accountability
- Opportunity to grow your career with a global workforce solutions leader serving multiple industries
- People-first environment that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work
- Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates
Why This Opportunity is Exciting:
- This role offers the chance to join a company that prioritizes both people and performance-where your contributions directly impact client success while giving you room to grow and develop professionally.
About Acara Solutions
- Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience in various industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customize visionary talent solutions that drive desired business outcomes. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.
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What You'll Do:
- Work collaboratively within a crossfunctional marketing, design, and vehicle engineering team, prioritizing overall vehicle benefit above individual systems.
- Collaborate with interior trim suppliers to ensure technical excellence and ontime delivery of Lucid Interior Components and Systems.
- Employ and develop effective tools and innovative approaches to support product development.
What You'll Bring:
- Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering.
- 4+ years of experience as a detailoriented Interior Components and Systems development lead (e.g., hard trim, soft trim, IP, door trims, consoles, headliners, etc.).
- 4+ years of experience creating, improving, or establishing technical product specifications and timelines to support accelerated development toward SOP.
- 4+ years of Vehicle and product launch experience.
What Sets You Apart:
- Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering.
- Knowledge and understanding of automotive interior components and systems, industry benchmarks, trends, and supplier capabilities.
- Proficiency in CAD for 2D/3D concept drawings, interior components and systems, packaging layouts, and DFM studies (CATIA V5/V6 preferred).
- Flexibility and adaptability to succeed in a fastpaced startup environment.
- Experience completing one full program cycle from concept to production launch in automotive interior components and systems.
- Profound knowledge of vehicle interior systems with a demonstrable track record of technical excellence and program execution.
- Strong understanding of plastic part design, structural performance, manufacturing technologies, craftsmanship, ergonomics, safety, and homologation requirements.
- Competency in materials selection, plastic injection molding/DFM, and GD&T.
- Willing to create exceptional products as part of a highly capable team.
- A practical, handson approach that complements theoretical knowledge.
- Exceptional technical abilities paired with excellent communication skills.
- Ideal candidate has designed SYSTEMS on a BUILD TO PRINT scheme, capable of designing with manufacturing in mind, knowledge of INJECTION MOLDING, compression forming, lamination, GD&T etc.
Additional Information:
- Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check.
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Aleron companies (Acara Solutions, Aleron Shared Resources, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, TalentRise, Viaduct) are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran.
Applicants for this position must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position does not meet the employment requirements for individuals with F-1 OPT STEM work authorization status.
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Aleron
Apr 28, 2026