Mid Level Structures Engineer Jobs
Mid level structures engineer jobs go to engineers ready to own projects end to end, guide junior staff, and make technical decisions with limited oversight. Openings are predominantly on-site and hybrid across Automotive, Consulting & Professional Services, and Science & Research, with employers like Panthalassa, Pacific Fusion, and Ford Motor Company hiring at this level now.
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Job Description
Advanced Propulsion Engineering at General Motors is a rapidly developing area of automotive technology. We are creating cutting-edge propulsion systems that provide industry-leading energy, power, durability, and safety capability for future vehicles, including EV, HEV, and advanced concepts. Our team is critical to achieving GM’s vision of Zero Emissions, Zero Crashes, and Zero Congestion. As a Battery Structures Engineer within the New Products Engineering team, you will develop and mature battery enclosure and structural integration solutions for advanced vehicle architectures. You will apply strong engineering fundamentals to translate vehicle- and pack-level requirements into robust, production-feasible battery structure designs. This role is a technical individual-contributor position. The successful candidate will independently own significant design workstreams, lead detailed technical problem solving, and partner across battery, vehicle, safety, manufacturing, CAE, packaging, thermal, electrical, and supplier teams. You will help deliver battery structures that balance performance, mass, cost, manufacturability, safety, durability, sealing, and integration requirements.
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.
Required 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.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with battery pack enclosure design, battery mounting systems, underbody integration, or RESS-to-vehicle interfaces.
- Experience supporting vehicle crash, durability, stiffness, formability, or sealing analysis and converting results into design actions.
- Familiarity with GM vehicle development processes, virtual gates, design release practices, and applicable internal requirements.
- Understanding of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards and automotive safety requirements relevant to battery structures and vehicle integration.
- Experience using CAD, PLM, tolerance analysis, and engineering documentation tools in a production vehicle-development environment.
- Experience working directly with suppliers to mature concepts, review manufacturability, and address technical issues.
- Experience with DFSS methods or structured problem-solving tools.
- Master’s degree in engineering.
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 <25% for this role. Relocation benefits are available for candidates who qualify under company policy.
About GM
Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.
Why Join Us
We believe we all must make a choice every day – individually and collectively – to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.
Benefits Overview
From day one, we're looking out for your well-being–at work and at home–so you can focus on realizing your ambitions. Learn how GM supports a rewarding career that rewards you personally by visiting Total Rewards resources.
Non-Discrimination and Equal Employment Opportunities (U.S.)
General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of unlawful discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that providing an inclusive workplace creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers. All employment decisions are made on a non-discriminatory basis without regard to sex, race, color, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, pregnancy or maternity status, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran or protected veteran, or any other similarly protected status in accordance with federal, state and local laws. We encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications for each role and apply for any positions that match their skills and capabilities. Applicants in the recruitment process may be required, where applicable, to successfully complete a role-related assessment(s) and/or a pre-employment screening prior to beginning employment. To learn more, visit How we Hire.
Accommodations
General Motors offers opportunities to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email us or call us at 1-800-865-7580. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.
Job Description
Advanced Propulsion Engineering at General Motors is a rapidly developing area of automotive technology. We are creating cutting-edge propulsion systems that provide industry-leading energy, power, durability, and safety capability for future vehicles, including EV, HEV, and advanced concepts. Our team is critical to achieving GM’s vision of Zero Emissions, Zero Crashes, and Zero Congestion. As a Battery Structures Engineer within the New Products Engineering team, you will develop and mature battery enclosure and structural integration solutions for advanced vehicle architectures. You will apply strong engineering fundamentals to translate vehicle- and pack-level requirements into robust, production-feasible battery structure designs. This role is a technical individual-contributor position. The successful candidate will independently own significant design workstreams, lead detailed technical problem solving, and partner across battery, vehicle, safety, manufacturing, CAE, packaging, thermal, electrical, and supplier teams. You will help deliver battery structures that balance performance, mass, cost, manufacturability, safety, durability, sealing, and integration requirements.
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.
Required 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.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with battery pack enclosure design, battery mounting systems, underbody integration, or RESS-to-vehicle interfaces.
- Experience supporting vehicle crash, durability, stiffness, formability, or sealing analysis and converting results into design actions.
- Familiarity with GM vehicle development processes, virtual gates, design release practices, and applicable internal requirements.
- Understanding of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards and automotive safety requirements relevant to battery structures and vehicle integration.
- Experience using CAD, PLM, tolerance analysis, and engineering documentation tools in a production vehicle-development environment.
- Experience working directly with suppliers to mature concepts, review manufacturability, and address technical issues.
- Experience with DFSS methods or structured problem-solving tools.
- Master’s degree in engineering.
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 <25% for this role. Relocation benefits are available for candidates who qualify under company policy.
About GM
Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.
Why Join Us
We believe we all must make a choice every day – individually and collectively – to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.
Benefits Overview
From day one, we're looking out for your well-being–at work and at home–so you can focus on realizing your ambitions. Learn how GM supports a rewarding career that rewards you personally by visiting Total Rewards resources.
Non-Discrimination and Equal Employment Opportunities (U.S.)
General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of unlawful discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that providing an inclusive workplace creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers. All employment decisions are made on a non-discriminatory basis without regard to sex, race, color, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, pregnancy or maternity status, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran or protected veteran, or any other similarly protected status in accordance with federal, state and local laws. We encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications for each role and apply for any positions that match their skills and capabilities. Applicants in the recruitment process may be required, where applicable, to successfully complete a role-related assessment(s) and/or a pre-employment screening prior to beginning employment. To learn more, visit How we Hire.
Accommodations
General Motors offers opportunities to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email us or call us at 1-800-865-7580. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.
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Mid Level Structures Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a mid level structures engineer job?
Position your existing experience around ownership and independent judgment, not just task completion. Highlight projects where you led the structural analysis or design from start to finish, coordinated with other disciplines, or resolved technical challenges without constant supervision. Emphasize software proficiency, code familiarity, and any role you played in mentoring or reviewing junior work. Applications that show growing scope of responsibility stand out at this level.
Which companies hire mid level structures engineers?
Companies hiring mid level structures engineers right now include Panthalassa, Pacific Fusion, and Ford Motor Company, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. At this experience level, hiring comes from a mix of large engineering consultancies, infrastructure firms, and specialty contractors who need engineers capable of running project elements independently.
Are there remote mid level structures engineer jobs?
Yes, though most structures engineering roles require at least some on-site or office presence given the hands-on and coordination demands of the work. About 33% of mid level structures engineer openings are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, concentrated mostly in design-focused or review-heavy roles where field presence is less critical.
How do I move up to a mid level structures engineer role?
Moving into a mid level role comes from consistently taking on more responsibility over your first few years, not just logging time. Focus on deepening your structural analysis and design skills, learning to work across disciplines, and completing projects with less direct oversight. Demonstrating measurable impact, such as catching design issues early or improving a team process, signals you are ready for the next level.
Which industries hire the most mid level structures engineers?
Mid Level structures engineer roles concentrate in Automotive, Consulting & Professional Services, and Science & Research, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These sectors drive consistent demand at the mid level because their project volumes require engineers who can manage structural work independently without full senior oversight on every task.