General Motors
CAE Body Structure Engineer
Warren, Michigan, United States of America · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
- Experience
- Three years in a CAE Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, or related role, and three years of experience in the specified analysis methods and modeling tasks.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or related field of study.
About the job
Performs CAE and finite element structural assessments of vehicle body designs, recommends solutions to meet performance requirements, and supports product development and validation teams.
What you'll do
- Build, update, and debug FEA models; run structural analyses and compare results with performance requirements.
- Share assessments and design recommendations with product development teams, and lead resources to meet program milestones.
- Develop analysis methods and capabilities, including topology optimization, process automation, and CAE enhancements.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field of study.
- Three years of experience as a CAE Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, or in a related role.
- Three years of experience with Linear Analysis including NASTRAN and OPTISTRUCT; Non-Linear Analysis including LS DYNA; material properties; CAE modeling tools; quasistatic non-linear analysis; NVH; durability analysis; and dynamic crash simulation.
- Three years of experience building FEA models from CAD solid models and creating CAE geometry or constructing and updating FEA models from NX math data.
Tools
NASTRAN, OPTISTRUCT, LS DYNA, NX, Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
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