At Toyota Motor Europe in Brussels, you will support the Vehicle Safety team in improving crash simulation processes through automation and innovative CAE methods. The role focuses on accelerating model building, modification, and result analysis to enhance development efficiency. As part of the R&D division, you contribute to safer vehicle design for the European market while ensuring compliance with safety regulations. The position suits an engineering master’s student with strong Python, ANSA, and problem-solving skills in a multicultural team environment.  

TOYOTA is one of the world’s largest automobile manufacturers and a leading global corporation. Founded in 1937. Toyota now sells vehicles in 170 countries and employs over 350.000 people. Based in Brussels, Belgium, and staffed by 2.700 people and more than 60 nationalities, Toyota Motor Europe (TME) handles the wholesale marketing of Toyota and Lexus vehicles, parts & accessories, and manages Toyota’s European R&D, manufacturing, and engineering operations.

We are excited to be transforming into a mobility company focusing on bringing even more happiness to our customers through various mobility solutions.

Team/division description

Vehicle Performance Engineering division (VPE) is part of Research and Development group at Toyota Motor Europe Technical Center in Zaventem, Belgium. Our division is in charge of:

• Identifying and understanding legal, market and customer driven requirements and trends, and turning them into development targets for vehicles, their subsystems, and down to components
• Development of passenger vehicles for European market
• Researching state-of-the-art and beyond state-of-the-art technologies for implementation in future vehicles

Vehicle Safety team takes care of development and evaluation of Passive Safety performances of vehicles.

Supporting Toyota’s strong commitment to safety, we strive to guarantee compliance to all legal (EC Regulations), as well as other (real life safety, consumer ratings etc.) requirements covering Interior Safety, Protection of Pedestrians, Child Protection and crash performance of EU models.

Your project

You will support the crash safety team in improving the efficiency of its current development process of the entire vehicle body structure. Using innovative ideas and automation skills, you will reduce the time needed to run the crash CAE simulations and processing the results.

Activities included are

• Automation of simulation model builds at subsystem level
• Automation of simulation model modifications
• Reduced order Model build tuning to achieve sufficient correlation
• Automation of the above

• You are fluent in English (TME’s business language)
• Studying for master’s in engineering (mechanical, automotive, aerospace, or similar)
• Experience with ANSA is a must. Other commercial CAE/post processing environments (ex. LS-Dyna, Meta , Primer, SDM etc.) is a plus
• Strong competency in coding skills (Python, ANSA scripting, Object-oriented Programming)
• Strong analytical problem-solving skills reinforced by good common sense
• You are a quick and eager learner with a flexible mind and good eye for details
• You are a team player with good communication skills inside a multicultural environment
• Good self-organization and time management

Starting date

•  June 2026

Duration

•  6 months

Confidentiality

Due to business requirement, not all performed projects can be reflected in the internship report. This issue needs to be discussed with candidate/school in advance.

It is mandatory that applicants are students for the entire period of the internship.

We can only accept students with an EEA or Swiss citizenship (not requiring a work permit or visa to be eligible to perform an internship in Belgium)

We offer a dynamic multicultural work environment with broad opportunities to learn every day and exciting career pathways that help you explore different disciplines or areas of expertise.

Your benefits

• Flexible working hours and hybrid working (homeworking, 10 days from abroad);
• Company restaurant – Warm dishes, salads and desserts daily, including Japanese and traditional Belgian specialties, as well as a vegan/vegetarian option;
• Sport facilities – Tennis, squash, volleyball, football and softball pitches are available at various Toyota sites;
• Team building activities and other personnel related events;
• Programs to support your physical and social well-being.

At Toyota Motor Europe, we are committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all. All our recruitment decisions are based on the individual and their qualifications along with the job requirements. The selection process is without regard to nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, ethnicity, disability or other personal characteristics. We do not tolerate harassment or discrimination as our individual experiences and overall diversity is our key strength. Together we have the power to make a positive change and go beyond the ordinary.

If you need any specific consideration for the interview process due to disability or any other reason, please let the recruiter know.