Mechanical Release Engineer

<div class="content-intro"><p>We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.</p> <p>As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.</p> <p>When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.</p></div><p><strong>Workplace: </strong>On-Site, Monday-Thursday. REMOTE on Friday.<br><strong>Location: </strong>Long Beach, CA<br><strong>Salary: </strong>$115-130k</p> <p>The High Voltage Hardware team is seeking a Mechanical Release Engineer to own the engineering release process and issue tracking for its hardware programs. <br>As the program scales, release administration has become the largest drain on design engineering time. Once a design engineer completes their design, this person picks it up and carries it all the way to a released state, prompting the right approvers, tracking status, and preventing the rework caused by late or incorrect releases.<br>This is a process ownership and coordination role rather than a design role. The right person is organized, persistent, comfortable chasing people across functions, and able to keep hundreds of parts and assemblies across varying pedigrees in a structured system without losing track of any of them.</p> <p><strong>Responsibilities </strong><br><em>Release execution and ownership</em><br>    • Take completed designs from the mechanical design engineers and drive them end to end through the release process to a released state in 3DX<br>    • Act as the single point of accountability for release status across hundreds of parts and assemblies spanning multiple pedigrees and programs<br>    • Identify the required approvers and stakeholders for each release, follow up proactively, and keep items moving against program timing<br>    • Catch and correct errors in release packages before they are submitted, reducing rework loops caused by incorrect releases<br>    • Maintain a clear, current view of what is in flight, what is blocked, and what has released, and report that view back to the team<br><em>Issue and ticket management</em><br>    • Own the tracking and organization of engineering tickets across the team's systems, including Jira, SOLVE tickets, EB HW tickets, CPC, and related repositories<br>    • Build and maintain a consolidated view of open issues by product, so the team can answer at any time what is outstanding and what is required to close it<br>    • Create and structure tickets and epics on behalf of engineers when new issues surface, so that items are tracked rather than lost<br>    • Drive issues toward closure by following up with owners and escalating stalled items to the manager<br>    • Recommend and implement improvements to how the team organizes and tracks tickets across repositories</p> <p><strong>Required Qualifications </strong><br>    • Bachelor's degree in engineering, or equivalent hands on experience in a product development environment<br>    • 4+ years supporting hardware or mechanical product development in a release, change management, program coordination, or technical project management capacity<br>    • Direct experience driving parts and assemblies through a formal engineering release or change process<br>    • Working proficiency with Jira, including building and structuring tickets, epics, boards, and filters<br>    • Demonstrated ability to track a high volume of concurrent items without losing visibility of status or ownership<br>    • Strong written and verbal communication, with the persistence to follow up across engineering, supply chain, and quality functions until items close<br>    • Comfortable operating independently with limited direction in a fast moving, early stage program environment</p> <p><strong>Preferred Qualifications </strong><br>    • Hands on experience with 3DEXPERIENCE (3DX) release workflows<br>    • Background in automotive or another high-volume hardware environment with formal PLM discipline<br>    • Exposure to high voltage systems, power conversion, power distribution, or electromechanical assemblies<br>    • Experience building reporting or dashboards that give a team visibility into open issues and release status<br>    • Familiarity with engineering change orders, BOM structures, and part pedigree conventions</p> <p><strong>Salary Range</strong><br>    • $115,000 - 130,000<br>    • The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, the candidate’s combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience </p><div class="content-conclusion"><p>All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discrimin