Engineer - Vehicle Architecture

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What we offer:

At Magna, you can expect an engaging and dynamic environment where you can help to develop industry-leading automotive technologies. We invest in our employees, providing them with the support and resources they need to succeed. As a member of our global team, you can expect exciting, varied responsibilities as well as a wide range of development prospects. Because we believe that your career path should be as unique as you are.

As an engineering and manufacturing partner, Magna’s Complete Vehicle group helps traditional OEMs and new entrants to bring their automotive visions to life. At Magna, you will work in an innovative, international and dynamic team, always pursuing the goal of delivering high-quality products. We work in a diverse environment with global development opportunities. Together with our employees we constantly strive to create a better world of mobility.

The Engineer
- Vehicle Architect leads vehicle-level architecture, packaging, integration, and technical convergence activities across complete vehicle development programs. The role translates customer, styling, regulatory, manufacturing, serviceability, geometrical and functional requirements into an integrated vehicle solution from concept through prototype, validation, production release, and launch. This position provides cross-functional technical leadership across vehicle systems and interfaces, coordinating styling, product engineering, CAD, PLM, manufacturing, suppliers, and program management.

The Engineer
- Vehicle Architect maintains vehicle-level design integrity, drives resolution of interface conflicts, and ensures released solutions meet program objectives and production readiness requirements.

• Lead development and maintenance of vehicle architecture, package layouts, system interfaces, hard points, zones, clearances, and integration requirements.
• Translate product, customer, styling, sensor, structural, thermal, manufacturing, ergonomic, service, and regulatory requirements into balanced vehicle-level solutions.
• Own cross-system compatibility and identify architecture risks, interface gaps, and requirement conflicts early in the development process.
• Guide packaging and integration of mechanical systems, structures, mounting hardware, enclosures, trim, sensors, cleaning systems, and thermal hardware.
• Use vehicle-level judgment and trade-off analysis to balance functional, manufacturability and serviceability requirements.

• Coordinate styling and engineering convergence for exterior and interior content, including A-, B-, and C-class surface development and data maturity.
• Define visualization, digital review, and physical evaluation scopes, including data status, releases, control models, and cubing activities.
• Lead step, gap, flushness, clearance, and interface target setting with styling, engineering, and tolerance-management teams.
• Resolve conflicts between design intent and technical feasibility, and support acceptance of styling data for production-tool release.

• Lead or coordinate vehicle integration concepts, CAD assemblies, interface documentation, and engineering data packages.
• Ensure released CAD and PLM data accurately represents approved design intent, package requirements, subsystem interfaces, and program configuration.
• Support Design engineering changes thru design maturity reviews, and configuration control through the product-development lifecycle.
• Collaborate with design and release engineers to ensure assigned systems are production-ready and fully integrated at vehicle level.

• Support vehicle, system, subsystem, and component compliance, ensuring that geometric and functional requirements, along with regulatory, manufacturing, and timing targets, are clearly defined, achievable, and incorporated into engineering plans
• Support program resource planning, budget…