Senior Vehicle Closures Integration Architect

General Motors Company; Warren (MI); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors Company is seeking a Staff Integration Lead Engineer to own architecture-wide technical integration across the Vehicle Closures program. This Level 8 IC role aligns engineering, design, manufacturing, validation, quality, and supply chain teams to deliver high-performing closure systems through technical influence.

You will drive an integrated execution plan from concept to launch, manage dependencies, and lead cross-functional reviews to ensure timing, cost, quality, and customer

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, manufacturing, or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• Significant experience leading complex automotive development, vehicle integration, and program execution across multiple launches and competing workstreams.
• Experience with vehicle closure systems, such as doors, liftgates, decklids, hoods, latches, hinges, seals, windows, or related mechanisms.
• Ability to make independent technical decisions and lead cross-functional work without direct authority.
• Strong understanding of vehicle development, engineering release, validation, manufacturing readiness, and launch execution.
• Experience translating requirements into executable plans and production-ready solutions, and resolving risks affecting safety, quality, customer expectations, cost, timing, performance, or manufacturability.
• Strong analytical, planning, organizational, presentation, facilitation, and problem-solving skills, including managing ambiguity, resolving conflict, and communicating de

Responsibilities

• Own technical integration across assigned closure systems, architectures, and vehicle families; establish priorities, ownership, review cadence, and escalation paths.
• Maintain an integrated execution plan covering requirements, design maturity, release, tooling, builds, validation, manufacturing readiness, launch, and post-launch actions.
• Integrate requirements for function, fit and finish, noise and vibration, sealing, water management, durability, safety, ergonomics, appearance, regulatory compliance, manufacturability, service, and customer experience.
• Lead cross-functional technical workgroups and integration reviews; evaluate and approve technical content, plans, trade studies, changes, and decision records within the assigned scope.
• Identify dependencies, critical-path activities, risks, and requirement gaps. Assign mitigation owners, use data and structured problem-solving, and escalation before commitments are affected.
• Challenge requirements or technical direction when evidence indicates risk to safety, quality, customer outcomes, cost, timing, or performance.
• Guide DREs and engineers while maintaining clear ownership of execution and release deliverables.
• Lead physical and virtual integration from advanced development and prototype builds through production readiness and launch.
• Serve as the first technical contact for closure-related launch issues, coordinating containment, root-cause analysis, recovery, and escalation.
• Partner with manufacturing, plants, and suppliers to resolve technical issues and ensure feasible designs, capable processes, dimensional performance, and executable reaction plans.
• Develop and govern technical standards, integration methods, decision logs, and lessons learned for reuse across programs.
• Communicate status, risks, opportunities, decisions, and recovery plans through concise, fact-based program reviews.
• Support resource and capacity planning by identifying technical workload needs and priority trade-offs.
• Apply digital tools, analytics, simulation, visualization, and automation to improve decision speed, quality, and reuse.
• Mentor engineers and program leads through coaching, technical reviews, and knowledge sharing to strengthen expertise and career development.

Skills

Automotive development

Vehicle integration

Program execution

Technical decision making

Cross-functional leadership

Requirements translation

Launch execution

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field

Job description

General Motors Company is seeking a Staff Integration Lead Engineer to own architecture-wide technical integration across the Vehicle Closures program. This Level 8 IC role aligns engineering, design, manufacturing, validation, quality, and supply chain teams to deliver high-performing closure systems through technical influence.

You will drive an integrated execution plan from concept to launch, manage dependencies, and lead cross-functional reviews to ensure timing, cost, quality, and customer