BIW & Battery Housing Engineer MID

We are ALTEN Mexico, a leading engineering company that specializes in providing innovative solutions for engineering, technology, and product development projects. With a dedicated team of over 250 professionals, we cater to various industries including Automotive, Energy, Aeronautics, Banking & Insurance, Telecom & Multimedia, and Rail. We offer comprehensive services ranging from project design development to test/validation, programming, implementation, and manufacturing. ALTEN Mexico is a subsidiary of the ALTEN Group, a global leader in engineering and technology consulting.
The BIW & Battery Housing Engineer will support advanced Body-in-White structural concepts, primarily large and medium structural castings, while also supporting stampings, extrusions, roll-formed sections, composites, and mixed-material assemblies. The engineer will provide expertise in casting feasibility, structural integration, joining strategy, corrosion protection, dimensional control, manufacturability, assembly, and supplier capability.
Location: Close to Toluca / Mexico City (Santa Fe)
Experience Level: 3+ years
English: B2–C1
Full-time | Engineering
Key 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
Benefits
Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
Home Office
Training & Development
Wellness Resources

Work arrangement
Yes