General Motors

Architect - Battery Structures and Body Integration

General Motors$100K — $130K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering required.
  • 10+ years of engineering experience.
  • 5+ years in battery structures and RESS integration.
  • Proven leadership in architectural trade studies and concept evaluations.
  • Experience with production processes like metal forming and sealing.

Responsibilities

  • Commit to safety as a foremost value in team operations.
  • Foster an inclusive environment appreciating diverse perspectives.
  • Act as technical architect for battery structures in advanced vehicles.
  • Lead integration between RESS and vehicle frame for performance optimization.
  • Define battery structure requirements and design concepts for vehicle architecture.
  • Oversee feasibility studies and technical selections throughout design phases.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to innovate battery structures and vehicle integration.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model allows flexibility in working location.
  • Opportunity for hands-on leadership in cutting-edge vehicle technology.
  • Engagement with cross-functional teams enhances professional networking.
  • Contributing to safety and efficiency in the automotive industry.
Full Job Description
In this role, you will serve as the technical architect for battery structures and body integration within the New Products Engineering team. This role is intended for a deeply technical leader who can define, evaluate, and mature battery structure concepts for new vehicle architectures. The ideal candidate brings strong expertise in battery enclosure architecture, body or frame integration, and the structural tradeoffs required to deliver competitive solutions in mass, cost, manufacturability, safety, and performance. Success in this role requires strong technical judgment, cross-functional influence, and the ability to drive alignment across battery, vehicle, safety, manufacturing, and advanced architecture stakeholders. Responsibilities • Be committed to safety in everything our team does. • Promote an inclusive team environment that values diverse backgrounds, opinions, and ideas. • Serve as the technical architect for battery structures and body integration for advanced vehicle architectures. • Lead the architectural relationship between the RESS and the vehicle body or frame to achieve the best balance of structural performance, packaging efficiency, mass, cost, manufacturability, and system capability. • Define and mature battery structure requirements, design enablers, and structural concepts that support use across a vehicle architecture. • Lead early concept development, feasibility assessments, and trade-off studies for new battery structure architectures, including mass, cost, investment, packaging, and performance evaluations. • Drive technical down-selects and cross-functional alignment ahead of math syncs and virtual gates with the appropriate level of design and analysis fidelity. • Develop robust battery structure concepts that meet pack- and vehicle-level requirements for crash, durability, stiffness, dynamics, sealing, and system integration. • Lead integration of battery structures with key system interfaces including cell, module, electrical, thermal, chassis, underbody, and safety requirements. • Develop structural concepts that enable robust, scalable, and cost-efficient manufacturing, including practical joining, forming, sealing, and assembly strategies. • Provide technical leadership to advanced battery structures engineers and cross-functional partners, driving consistent engineering practices across architectures. • Partner proactively with advanced vehicle design, battery architecture, manufacturing architects, CAE, safety, packaging, thermal, electrical, and supplier teams to develop practical architectural solutions. • Drive innovation in battery structure and vehicle integration by leveraging internal research, supplier initiatives, trade groups, and external benchmarking. • Benchmark automotive and adjacent industries for new technologies and integration approaches that improve vehicle efficiency and competitiveness. • Support development of engineering standards, best practices, and manufacturing requirements related to battery structures and body integration. Requirements • Bachelor's degree in engineering. • 10+ years of engineering experience. • 5+ years of direct experience in battery structures and/or RESS structural integration with vehicle body or frame systems. • Demonstrated experience leading architectural trade studies and making concept-level decisions that balance mass, cost, investment, performance, packaging, and manufacturability. • Experience with structural design and engineering for highly integrated systems, including battery enclosure interfaces to vehicle body, frame, chassis, thermal, and electrical systems. • Experience with common production processes such as metal forming, castings, extrusions, joining, sealing, body shop processing, and tooling development. • Experience developing structures to comply with Motor Vehicle Safety Standards and applicable GM internal performance and safety requirements. • Demonstrated ability to work effectively across functions and influence technical direction without direct authority. • High level of interpersonal skills to work effectively either independently or with others as required. Preferred Qualifications • Demonstrated expertise working with CAE, Safety, and Formability analysis teams, including the ability to translate analysis results into practical architectural changes. • Strong understanding of advanced vehicle development processes and virtual gate expectations. • Understanding of the roles and capabilities of Vehicle Packaging, Chassis, Safety, Manufacturing, CAE, Thermal, Electrical, and related groups in the development of new vehicle architectures. • Strong understanding of structural load paths, crash and barrier considerations, joining strategies, and production-feasible battery enclosure concepts. • Experience defining engineering requirements and design best practices for battery structures across multiple architectures. • Experience working with suppliers to mature structural concepts into manufacturing-ready solutions. • Master's degree in engineering. • DFSS Black Belt Certification. GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply for this role if you will need GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future. This includes direct company sponsorship, entry of GM as the immigration employer of record on a government form, and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g., H1-B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc).This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location at least 3 times a week {or other frequency dictated by their manager}.The selected candidate will be required to travel

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General Motors Company engages in the manufacture and sale of cars and trucks in the United States, China, Brazil, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Italy. It offers sedans, crossovers, sport utility vehicles, pick-up trucks, coupes, sports/convertibles and hybrid vehicles, hatchbacks/wagons, and vans, as well as mini cars in India. The company also provides parts and accessories, such as iPod and MP3 compatibility, mobility accessories, performance parts, AC parts and services, and merchandise. In addition, it offers vehicle safety, security, and information services. The company provides used vehicles. It offers its products through dealers and distributors. General Motors Company was formerly known as NGMCO, Inc. and changed its name to General Motors Company in July 2009. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Detroit, Michigan. It operates manufacturing facilities in India, the United States, and Canada. General Motors Company operates as a subsidiary of the United States Department of The Treasury. General Motors led global vehicle sales for 77 consecutive years from 1931 through 2007, longer than any other automaker, and is currently among the world's largest automakers by vehicle unit sales. General Motors acts in most countries outside the USA via wholly-owned subsidiaries but operates in China through 10 joint ventures. GM's OnStar subsidiary provides vehicle safety, security, and information services. In 2009, General Motors shed several brands, closing Saturn, Pontiac, and Hummer, and emerged from a government-backed Chapter 11 reorganization. In 2010, GM made an initial public offering IPOs to date and returned to profitability later that year.

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