BIW & Battery Housing Engineer

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BIW and battery housing engineer developing automotive structural casting, joining, and mixed-material solutions for ALTEN Mexico. Supporting vehicle body and battery housing design, validation, suppliers, and manufacturing.

Responsibilities:

  • Develop BIW concepts using structural castings, steel and aluminum stampings, extrusions, roll forms, composites, and hybrid assemblies.
  • Lead casting reviews covering alloy, wall thickness, ribs, draft, parting lines, gating, porosity, distortion, machining, tooling, and datum strategy.
  • Identify opportunities for part consolidation, joint reduction, attachment integration, mass reduction, and assembly simplification.
  • Review structural sections, load paths, crash management, stiffness, fatigue, durability, and local attachment requirements with CAE teams.
  • Develop mixed-material strategies using FDS, resistance/MIG/laser welding, FSW, SPR, bolts, mechanical fasteners, adhesives, and sealers.
  • Evaluate joints for material stack, access, loading, fatigue, corrosion, sealing, heat input, distortion, cycle time, equipment, and repairability.
  • Define flange, access, edge-distance, adhesive, surface-treatment, sealing, and corrosion requirements; support coupon and subsystem validation.
  • Assess suppliers, simulations, tooling, process controls, machining, inspection, quality plans, prototype trials, and casting/joining root causes.

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Materials, Metallurgical, Manufacturing, Welding Engineering, or a related field.
  • +3 years of automotive BIW, structural, casting, materials, or joining experience.
  • Demonstrated structural casting expertise, preferably aluminum HPDC, plus experience with two additional BIW processes.
  • Strong knowledge of mixed-material joining, metallurgy, corrosion, fatigue, dimensional control, GD&T, DFMEA, DVP&R, PFMEA, and joint validation.
  • Preferred: mega/giga castings, structural nodes, rails or battery housings; casting simulation, metallurgical testing, corrosion mitigation, NX/Teamcenter.
  • English Advanced
  • English proficiency at B2–C1 level.

Benefits:

  • Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
  • Home Office
  • Training & Development
  • Wellness Resources