Senior Battery Structure Architect

General Motors Company; United States; Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Relocation assistance

Job summary

General Motors, in Advanced Propulsion Engineering, seeks a Battery Structures Engineer to design and mature battery enclosure and body/frame integration for EV programs. You translate vehicle requirements into robust, production-ready structures and own major workstreams end-to-end.

This role collaborates with CAE, Safety, Manufacturing, Packaging, Thermal, Chassis, and suppliers to optimize mass, cost, and safety, while contributing to engineering standards and best practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• 5+ years of relevant engineering experience in vehicle structures, battery structures, body structures, chassis structures, or closely related product design areas.
• Direct experience with structural design and development for integrated automotive systems; battery enclosure or RESS structural integration experience is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and mature mechanical designs from early concepts through detailed engineering and validation.
• Working knowledge of structural load paths, crashworthiness, durability, stiffness, vibration, sealing, and packaging considerations.
• Experience applying production-feasible design practices involving metal stampings, castings, extrusions, joining, sealing, tooling, and assembly processes.
• Ability to perform and communicate engineering trade studies that balance mass, cost, performance, packaging, timing, and manufacturability.
• Experience working in a cross-functional vehicle development environment with CAE, Safety, Manufacturing, Packaging, Thermal, Electrical, Chassis, and supplier partners.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, collaboration, and organizational skills.
• Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a technical team.

Responsibilities

• Be committed to safety in everything our team does.
• Promote an inclusive team environment that values diverse backgrounds, opinions, and ideas.
• Design and mature battery enclosure, mounting, and body/frame integration solutions for new product and advanced vehicle programs.
• Translate pack- and vehicle-level requirements into component, subsystem, and interface requirements for battery structures.
• Develop concepts, CAD layouts, engineering studies, and supporting technical documentation for battery structural systems and interfaces.
• Perform and support feasibility assessments and design trade studies involving mass, cost, packaging, structural performance, manufacturability, tooling, and investment.
• Own assigned battery structure workstreams from early concept through design maturation, virtual validation, issue resolution, and handoff to downstream development teams.
• Collaborate with CAE, Safety, and test teams to interpret crash, durability, stiffness, dynamics, sealing, and other analysis results; incorporate findings into practical design improvements.
• Develop and refine structural load paths, joints, attachment strategies, cross-members, covers, trays, reinforcements, and interfaces with vehicle body, frame, chassis, thermal, electrical, and high-voltage systems.
• Apply design-for-manufacturing principles to proposed solutions, including metal forming, castings, extrusions, joining, sealing, assembly, body shop processing, tooling, and serviceability considerations.
• Support technical reviews, math syncs, virtual gates, design releases, and cross-functional issue-resolution activities with appropriate engineering rigor.
• Work with suppliers and manufacturing partners to evaluate technical feasibility, mature designs, and resolve design or process risks.
• Benchmark battery enclosures, structural technologies, joining methods, and vehicle-integration approaches to identify opportunities for improved performance and competitiveness.
• Contribute to engineering standards, design guidelines, lessons learned, and best practices for battery structures and body integration.
• Communicate technical status, risks, decisions, and recommendations clearly to engineering leadership and cross-functional partners.

Skills

Strong problem-solving

Communication

Collaboration

Organizational skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or related

Master’s degree in engineering

Tools

CAD

PLM

FEM

Job description

General Motors, in Advanced Propulsion Engineering, seeks a Battery Structures Engineer to design and mature battery enclosure and body/frame integration for EV programs. You translate vehicle requirements into robust, production-ready structures and own major workstreams end-to-end.

This role collaborates with CAE, Safety, Manufacturing, Packaging, Thermal, Chassis, and suppliers to optimize mass, cost, and safety, while contributing to engineering standards and best practices.