Technical Expert – BIW & Body Structure
On-siteHanoi, Hanoi, Vietnam
Job Summary
Act as the technical authority for BIW, body structure, doors, and closures across VinFast vehicle programs for the vehicle quality division. Lead the definition, review, and continuous improvement of BIW and closure design rules, standards, and technical guidelines. Drive resolution of all major BIW-, door-, and closure-related issues, including structural performance, NVH, air leakage, and quality concerns. Support teams in achieving passive safety targets and work closely with NVH, Safety, Durability, Manufacturing, and Sealing teams to deliver robust body solutions. Review and challenge designs at concept, detailed design, and validation stages to ensure technical excellence. Lead technical reviews, root-cause investigations, and corrective action definition for complex body-related issues. Capture key learnings from projects and embed them into future platform strategies, standards, and processes. Provide expert input to senior leadership on body structure strategy, risks, and technical direction.
Required Qualifications
- Expert in Body-in-White (BIW) engineering, including complete body structures, doors, and closures, and body systems
- Extensive experience in designing and optimizing body structures for passive safety and crashworthiness performance
- Extensive experience in designing and optimizing body structures for NVH performance and structural stiffness
- Extensive experience in designing and optimizing body structures for air leakage, water management, and sealing robustness
- Strong understanding of load paths, joint design, material selection, and structural concepts across BIW and closures
- Proven capability to integrate passive safety requirements (global regulations and consumer test expectations) into BIW and closure design
- Deep experience working with NVH teams to manage structure-borne noise, body stiffness targets, sealing strategy, and wind noise contributors
- Demonstrated ability to define, review, and enforce BIW and closure design rules and best practices across vehicle programs
- Strong track record of driving cross-functional problem resolution involving CAE, testing, manufacturing, sealing systems, and suppliers
- Experience capturing, formalizing, and deploying lessons learned into standards, guidelines, and future vehicle architectures
- Comfortable operating as a senior technical authority across global engineering organizations
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Structural Engineering, or a related discipline
- 20+ years of experience in body structure development within industry-leading OEMs or Tier-1-led vehicle programs
- Exceptional technical judgement with a systems-level understanding of complete vehicle body performance
- Strong leadership and influencing skills, able to drive decisions across multiple stakeholders without direct line management
- Excellent communication skills, capable of articulating complex structural topics clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Structured, analytical approach to problem solving, with a strong bias toward root cause and prevention
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-expectation environment with significant technical accountability
Hiring someone like this?
Get your role in front of qualified candidates on Sorce.