Engineering Design group, Engine Team

About the Role

General Motors is seeking an Engineering Designer to develop integrated, high-quality, manufacturable designs for the Engine space. This role is focused on complete Engine systems and requires translating vehicle, propulsion, structural, manufacturing, and program requirements into robust virtual designs.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain robust, accurate, and production-oriented Siemens NX parametric models for assigned components and subsystems.
• Create virtual vehicle integration solutions aligned with program requirements, design principles, packaging constraints, design criteria, and subsystem interfaces.
• Develop and refine NX criteria and typical sections using approved modeling methods and program standards.
• Establish and control hard points, packaging zones, clearances, service access, and critical interfaces.
• Apply structural design fundamentals, including stiffness, strength, fatigue, buckling, section efficiency, joints, materials, reinforcements, and local load introduction.
• Evaluate primary and secondary load paths for durability, crash, support, and propulsion-related conditions.
• Identify load introduction points, reactions, joints, discontinuities, weak links, and opportunities for efficient structural improvement.
• Perform or support clearance, usage, configuration, and virtual studies across components, subsystems, and the complete vehicle.
• Complete NX Analysis for assigned components or subsystems and use results to guide design decisions.
• Apply GD&T, tolerance awareness, variation-management, and stack-up principles.
• Design for manufacturability and assembly, considering process capability, tooling, fixturing, access, sequence, joining, weldability, inspection, repairability, and production variation.
• Maintain accurate and traceable material, mass, specification, and related data within the math file.
• Translate program and component requirements into clear design criteria, integration checks, verification expectations, and release deliverables.
• Plan and execute work against design sync points, review milestones, release timing, and other Global Vehicle Development Process deliverables.
• Deliver accurate, complete, and on-time math releases with clean CAD, correct interfaces, complete details, and minimal rework.
• Use structured problem solving to resolve non-routine and moderately complex virtual integration issues.
• Communicate design intent, load paths, integration risks, timing, decisions, and technical concerns clearly and proactively.
• Track actions and issues through integration, analysis, reviews, release, build, validation, and verified closure.
• Seek input early, support fellow designers, collaborate across functions, and share lessons learned and effective design practices.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of modeling methods, design reviews, checks, templates, workflows, and data quality.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Siemens NX (parametric modeling, model organization, design intent, references, constraints, model-quality practices)
• NX Analysis
• GD&T
• Design for manufacturability and assembly (DFM/DFA)
• Automotive or mechanical structural design
• Virtual integration, packaging, clearance studies, configurations, usage validation

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, engineering technology, or a related engineering discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Two to five years of experience in automotive or mechanical CAD, engineering design, or a related product-development environment.
• Demonstrated experience using Siemens NX.
• Understanding of automotive or mechanical structural design.
• Experience with virtual integration, packaging, clearance studies, configurations, usage validation, or comparable design-integration activities.
• Working knowledge of GD&T, tolerance concepts, and variation management.
• Working knowledge of design for manufacturability and assembly.
• Ability to interpret requirements, identify ambiguity or conflict, and maintain traceability.
• Ability to complete assigned work accurately and on schedule while managing multiple interfaces and program commitments.
• Strong technical communication, problem-solving, collaboration, ownership, and follow-through skills.
• Willingness and ability to work onsite at the Warren Tech Center at least three days per week, or as otherwise determined by the hiring leader.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing structural sheet-metal components.
• Knowledge of casting processes.
• Advanced Siemens NX experience (complex surfacing, expressions, templates, checks, reusable modeling practices, workflow improvement).
• Broader NX Analysis experience and ability to connect analysis results to design changes.
• Experience with joining strategies.
• Experience with DFMEA, tolerance analysis, durability thinking, design optimization, or failure-mode anticipation.
• Experience leading configuration or design changes.
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical decisions without formal authority.
• Experience coaching or developing less-experienced designers.
• Master’s degree in engineering or a related technical discipline.