Senior Design Engineering Consultant – GD&T Expert

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Senior Design Engineering Consultant providing GD&T expertise with a focus on AI-driven design and manufacturing processes. Collaborating closely with product and engineering teams to align engineering use cases and requirements.

Responsibilities:

  • Serve as the primary subject-matter expert on GD&T, tolerance-driven design, and the engineering use cases, requirements, and constraints that inform product development.
  • Define and review product workflows and requirements for datum strategies, feature control frames, tolerance types, interfaces, and variation analysis.
  • Ensure the software correctly represents ASME Y14.5 and/or ISO GPS standards, including intent and best practices
  • Validate that tolerance definitions align with functional requirements, process capability, and inspection methods.
  • Write clear product specifications and user-facing documentation, including workflows, examples, and best-practice guidance.
  • Translate complex GD&T concepts into language accessible to software engineers, product managers, and customers.
  • Validate product behavior using real design data and provide feedback from pilots and customer discussions.
  • Support customer and internal discussions as a recognized GD&T and product-definition expert.

Requirements:

  • 10+ years of recent experience in design engineering in industries such as automotive, construction, capital equipment.
  • Deep, hands-on expertise with GD&T standards (ASME Y14.5/ISO GPS)
  • Proven experience defining and reviewing:Datum reference frames and functional datums
  • Feature control frames for form, orientation, location, and profile
  • Complex part interfaces and assembly relationships
  • Strong understanding of how GD&T impacts:
  • Manufacturing process selection
  • Tooling and fixturing strategy
  • Inspection methods (CMM, gauges, in-line measurement)
  • Experience performing or reviewing: Tolerance stack-upsVariation and robustness analysis
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain GD&T intent and consequences to non-experts.