Closures & Body Structures Engineer

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ONSITE in Long Beach, CA

You will be a key contributor within a world class automotive closures engineering team, responsible for closure and body structure systems as the program moves from validation through prototype builds, pilot, and job one at the assembly plant. This role sits at the intersection of sheet metal structures, mechanical hardware, and manufacturing, and covers closure inner and outer panels, reinforcements, hinge and latch mounting interfaces, and their integration into the body structure.

You will own your designs hands on in CAD, correlate test results to requirements, and be on the ground during build events, closing issues fast enough to protect program timing.

• Design, modify, and release closure and body structure sheet metal components, including inner and outer panels, reinforcements, and hinge, latch, and check mounting interfaces using CATIA or 3
  
  DEXPERIENCE
• Ensure designs are optimized for stamping, hemming, and joining processes, including spot welding, adhesive bonding, and mixed material joints
• Package and integrate closure hardware into the body structure, ensuring proper kinematics, clearance, and load path for hinges, latches, checks, and seals
• Support DVP&R execution, review test reports, and correlate physical results with CAE for strength, durability, stiffness, and slam and cycle performance
• Support regulatory and rating compliance for closures and body structure, including FMVSS 206 and 214 and IIHS side impact requirements
• Work directly with suppliers on part quality, test failures, retests, and design or process changes, driving issues to closure with clear ownership and timing
• Support prototype, pilot, and launch builds, resolving dimensional, fit and finish, gap and flush, and structural findings on the floor, including next day fix concepts during launch
• Own CAD, BOM, and GD&T documentation for assigned components, and manage tolerance stack up and datum strategy at closure to body interfaces
• Drive root cause and corrective action on issues discovered during build and validation, including oil canning, panel distortion, water leak, and closing effort findings
• Collaborate with closures mechanisms, studio design, manufacturing engineering, quality, and purchasing to maintain styling intent, structural requirements, and program timing
• Support engineering change execution during launch, verifying change implementation in the plant and confirming effectiveness on subsequent builds

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Automotive, or Manufacturing Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of automotive engineering experience in production vehicle development, with at least one program through launch
• Hands on CAD experience in CATIA or 3
  
  DEXPERIENCE on closures or body structures, with demonstrated ownership of your own geometry
• Demonstrated experience in the design and release of…