Staff Integration Lead Engineer- Vehicle Closures

Job Description

This role is categorized as hybrid. The selected candidate will be expected to work on-site at the Warren Tech Center at least three days per week, or as otherwise determined by the hiring leader.

- This role is not eligible for relocation assistance.

At General Motors, our product teams are redefining mobility. Through a human-centered design process, we create vehicles and experiences that are designed not just to be seen, but to be felt. We’re turning today’s impossible into tomorrow’s standard —from breakthrough hardware and battery systems to intuitive design, intelligent software, and next-generation safety and entertainment features.

Every day, our products move millions of people as we aim to make driving safer, smarter, and more connected, shaping the future of transportation on a global scale..

About the role

The Staff Integration Lead Engineer owns architecture-wide technical integration and execution across the Vehicle Closures program portfolio. This Level 8 individual-contributor role aligns engineering, design, manufacturing, dimensional, validation, quality, purchasing, supply chain, supplier, vehicle development, and launch teams to deliver coordinated, high-performing closure systems through technical influence rather than supervisory authority.

The role translates vehicle objectives, requirements, and engineering data into clear deliverables and timely decisions. As a key technical link between Vehicle Closures leadership and program teams, the engineer manages dependencies, anticipates risks, and drives issue resolution from concept through launch and post-launch learning, meeting timing, cost, quality, performance, and customer expectations.

What you'll do

- Own technical integration across assigned closure systems, architectures, and vehicle families; establish priorities, ownership, review cadence, and escalation paths.
- Maintain an integrated execution plan covering requirements, design maturity, release, tooling, builds, validation, manufacturing readiness, launch, and post-launch actions.
- Integrate requirements for function, fit and finish, noise and vibration, sealing, water management, durability, safety, ergonomics, appearance, regulatory compliance, manufacturability, service, and customer experience.
- Lead cross-functional technical workgroups and integration reviews; evaluate and approve technical content, plans, trade studies, changes, and decision records within the assigned scope.
- Identify dependencies, critical-path activities, risks, and requirement gaps. Assign mitigation owners, use data and structured problem-solving, and escalate before commitments are affected.
- Challenge requirements or technical direction when evidence indicates risk to safety, quality, customer outcomes, cost, timing, or performance.
- Guide DREs and engineers while maintaining clear ownership of execution and release deliverables.
- Lead physical and virtual integration from advanced development and prototype builds through production readiness and launch.
- Serve as the first technical contact for closure-related launch issues, coordinating containment, root-cause analysis, recovery, and escalation.
- Partner with manufacturing, plants, and suppliers to resolve technical issues and ensure feasible designs, capable processes, dimensional performance, and executable reaction plans.
- Develop and govern technical standards, integration methods, decision logs, and lessons learned for reuse across programs.
- Communicate status, risks, opportunities, decisions, and recovery plans through concise, fact-based program reviews.
- Support resource and capacity planning by identifying technical workload needs and priority trade-offs.
- Apply digital tools, analytics, simulation, visualization, and automation to improve decision speed, quality, and reuse.
- Mentor engineers and program leads through coaching, technical reviews, and knowledge sharing to strengthen expertise and career development.

Required qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, manufacturing, or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
- Significant experience leading complex automotive development, vehicle integration, and program execution across multiple launches and competing workstreams.
- Experience with vehicle closure systems, such as doors, liftgates, decklids, hoods, latches, hinges, seals, windows, or related mechanisms.
- Ability to make independent technical decisions and lead cross-functional work without direct authority.
- Strong understanding of vehicle development, engineering release, validation, manufacturing readiness, and launch execution.
- Experience translating requirements into executable plans and production-ready solutions, and resolving risks affecting safety, quality, customer expectations, cost, timing, performance, or manufacturability.
- Strong analytical, planning, organizational, presentation, facilitation, and problem-solving skills, including managing ambiguity, resolving conflict, and communicating decisions to senior leaders.
- Proficiency with Teamcenter, VisMockup, NX, workflow or ergonomics simulation, dimensional-quality tools, or comparable engineering systems.
- Experience with Lean/Kaizen, Six Sigma, DFSS, DFMEA/PFMEA, PPAP/APQP, Red X, quality-plan execution, or cost reduction.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with DREs, studios, program teams, manufacturing, quality, validation, suppliers, plants, and technical leadership.
- Ability to work primarily in Warren, Michigan, with travel to plants, suppliers, and other GM locations for program, build, and launch support.

Preferred qualifications

- Advanced degree in engineering, business, or related field.
- Additional experience in body structures, vehicle integration, design release, dimensional quality, validation, or launch.
- Experience leading technical workgroups, integration reviews, change approval boards, issue-resolution teams, or architecture decisions.
- Experience developing technical standard work, reusable methods, and engineering best practices.
- Experience applying analytics, simulation, visualization, automation, or digital engineering tools to improve technical decisions.
- Experience leading or supporting engineering or manufacturing automation projects.
- Experience with supplier integration, tooling, manufacturing process development, and plant launch readiness.
- Knowledge of GM product development, quality, launch, and change management processes.

GM DOES NOT PROVIDE IMMIGRATION-RELATED SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE. DO NOT APPLY FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU WILL NEED GM IMMIGRATION SPONSORSHIP NOW OR IN THE FUTURE. THIS INCLUDES DIRECT COMPANY SPONSORSHIP, ENTRY OF GM AS THE IMMIGRATION EMPLOYER OF RECORD ON A GOVERNMENT FORM, AND ANY WORK AUTHORIZATION REQUIRING A WRITTEN SUBMISSION OR OTHER IMMIGRATION SUPPORT FROM THE COMPANY (e.g., H-1B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc.)