Design Release Engineer Boosted System

MARTIN Technologies is seeking a Design Release Engineer to develop and release superchargers, fuel injectors, and fuel rails. The role integrates boost and fuel-delivery performance with engine packaging, combustion, emissions, durability, and manufacturing requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead supercharger component development and release; coordinate thermal, drive-system, lubrication, noise, and durability reviews with suppliers and technical experts.
• Develop port fuel injection (PFI) and direct injection (DI) injectors and fuel rails, coordinating cylinder-head, electrical, controls, calibration, and pressure-sensor interfaces.
• Manage fuel safety, combustion and emissions impacts, manufacturing variation, and end-of-line test requirements; coordinate fuel-rail installation interfaces with vehicle integration teams.
• Guide CAD models and drawings; coordinate CAE, calculations, and test correlation. Maintain traceable requirements, interface specifications, configuration control, and approved releases.
• Lead DFMEA, DVP&R, and APQP activities; support PPAP, prototype builds, validation, production readiness, and launch.
• Resolve failures and engineering changes with suppliers and specialists; assess cost, mass, timing, tooling, manufacturing, service, and validation impacts. Track risks, actions, and recovery plans; maintain technical records and lessons learned.

Required qualifications

• At least five years of automotive component development experience, including design release, validation, and launch responsibility on at least one production program in the relevant technical domain.
• Mechanical design and materials fundamentals, sealing, GD&T, tolerance analysis, and design for manufacturing, assembly, serviceability, reliability, and warranty prevention.
• Proficiency with PLM, BOM, CAD-viewing, requirements, change-management, and issue-tracking systems.
• Supplier management, professional written and spoken English, and evidence-based problem solving using 8D, 5-Why, fault-tree, and fishbone analysis.

Technical skills

• Superchargers: Roots and twin-screw fundamentals, compressor maps and efficiency, rotor timing and clearances, drive loads and torsional behavior, bearings and lubrication, surge/choke characterization, overspeed and durability testing, and noise and gear-whine mitigation.
• Boost thermal management, intercooler and water-cooled charge air cooler (WCAC) integration, calibration interfaces, and performance, emissions, and onboard diagnostic (OBD) impacts.
• Injectors: PFI and DI architecture, spray targeting, head and rail interfaces, flow characterization, deposits, leakage, thermal robustness, fuel compatibility, high-pressure fuel safety, and electrical and calibration integration.
• Fuel rails: PFI architecture, fuel-pulse and pressure-wave behavior, injector and sensor integration, brazed and welded construction, pressure-cycle fatigue, leak testing, thermal and vapor control, fuel corrosion, manufacturing variation, and end-of-line controls.

Preferred education Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, or a related engineering discipline preferred. Equivalent technical education and relevant experience will be considered. Work environment On-site collaboration with OEM, supplier, laboratory, and manufacturing teams. Travel to engineering and production facilities may be required. Follow applicable safety and confidentiality requirements.