Senior Manager of Body Engineering

Lightship

Broomfield, CO, United States

Posted on: 2025-11-06

Category: emobility

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Senior

Salary

Salary not provided

About the company:

Lightship is an early-stage hardware startup launched in 2020 by Tesla alumni that is bringing the $26B recreational vehicle industry into the electric age. Based in San Francisco and Broomfield, Colorado, Lightship is designing and producing an aerodynamic, battery-powered trailer that liberates travelers from the noise, emissions, and range anxiety of gas RVing.

Overview

Lightship is the first American all-electric recreational vehicle manufacturer currently developing an aerodynamic, battery-powered trailer for the electric age. As the macro transition to an all-electric transportation ecosystem accelerates, Lightship is bringing the increased convenience and superior performance that electrification offers to a pastime enjoyed by over 11 million American families.

Honoring Diverse Perspectives

Lightship is committed to hiring and developing top talent from diverse backgrounds. We believe representing and supporting diverse groups is key to the success of our team members, customers, shareholders and the achievement of our mission and vision. We operate in a collaborative environment with a flat organizational structure and expect a high degree of integrity, autonomy and creativity from all members of the team.

About the Role

As the Senior Manager of Body Engineering, you will lead the team of internal engineers and external partners to deliver innovative body solutions for Lightship’s groundbreaking all-electric RVs. You will use your deep technical knowledge, broad experience, and strong leadership skills to develop finely balanced solutions which meet the commercial, structural, functional and cosmetic needs for current and future products.

Onsite/Hybrid Work

Hybrid roles at Lightship require onsite work from our offices Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Tuesdays and Fridays are optional work from home days, when your work will be executed more successfully from home. Speak to the hiring manager to learn more.

Employee Benefits & Philosophy - Applies to Full Time Employees only

- Healthcare, Dental, Vision

- 401k

- Flexible Paid Time Off - that we actually want you to use!

- 8 Company Holidays + the company observes a period of scheduled downtime during the end of the year for a week, allowing all employees to enjoy a break

- 12 weeks paid parental leave

- $2,000 per year towards an RV trip of your own &/or professional development opportunities - we call this a LightTrip

Lightship offers all of its full time employees and their dependents full benefits including health, dental and vision insurance and covers 100% of the insurance premium. We are on a mission to create a more healthful all-electric experience for a pastime that millions of families enjoy and believe strongly that our team should not have to worry about quality healthcare for themselves or their loved ones along the way.

Responsibilities

Overall: Lead the body engineering team to design a bonded aluminum support structure and composite cosmetic exterior panels for a unique electric RV

Collaborate with other Lightship engineering teams to ensure proper mechanical integration of their content, especially closures, glazing, high and low voltage electrical systems, interior systems

Work with internal and external partners to optimize the body structure and exterior panels to meet targets for structure, cost, mass, manufacturing and assembly, dimensional and cosmetic quality

Support selection of suppliers and work closely with the chosen supplier to manage delivered part quality and delivery timing

Develop and perform component and system level testing as needed to validate your designs

Support the manufacturing team in the assembly of the body structure in-house

Minimum Qualifications

BS Mechanical Engineering or equivalent

10+ years of experience with production-level vehicle body design; 5+ years in a leadership position

5+ years utilizing CATIA, to design vehicle structures

3+ years experience collaborating closely with Industrial Design teams to deliver class A vehicle body designs

Highly organized: ability to plan and track progress for a large number of subcomponents through design, release, production and revision

Collaborative mindset, dedication to excellence and completeness, clear communication style

Preferred Qualifications

Experience within a startup or other small company environment

Strong CATIA 3DX user

Significant automotive body design leadership experience including dimensional control, sealing, fit & finish

Experience applying lightweighting techniques, materials and processes to vehicle structures

Experience with achieving aggressive aerodynamic targets on vehicle structures

Equity

Lightship compensation consists of the yearly salary above plus equity, which gives you a stake in the company.

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