Staff Software Engineer - Aero Platform (Motorsports)

Job Description

Workplace Classification:

Hybrid: This position does not require an employee to be on-site full-time to perform most effectively. This position requires an employee to be onsite up to 3 times per week at either our Charlotte or Austin Technical Centers.

The Team:

GM’s Motorsports Software team analyzes, defines, and delivers next generation groundbreaking Motorsports IT software solutions. Using both innovative cloud-based infrastructure and software development standards, these solutions enable innovative interactions between GM Global Engineering, GM Motorsports, and our Race teams that accelerate our drivers to the finish line first! Our combined team of analysts, architects, developers, data engineers, testers, and project managers work with GM Motorsports Engineering and Race teams to ensure podium wins for GM’s NASCAR, IndyCar, and IMSA sportscar teams! 

The Role:

The Staff Software Engineer will serve in a dual role of providing technical leadership as well as software delivery.  This is an experienced position requiring an expert level technical foundation, significant hands-on contributions to projects, leading in the development of solution architectures, and broad exposure to scalable systems development in the cloud.  As a Lead Software Engineer, you will have the opportunity to apply your experience and training to shape, then apply your vision in building Motorsports software.  At GM Motorsports, we build systems to provide our teams with a competitive advantage on race day then apply those learnings toward production vehicle development.  This is a highly visible role focused on aerodynamics systems design.

What You'll Do (Responsibilities): 

• Lead a team of developers to implement and maintain GM Motorsports aero-thermal applications including CFD model construction, visualization, and analysis. Create pluggable systems that are orchestrated by the platform.
• Solution architectures, lead the team in "how", gain consensus.
• Focus on modern application design, code quality, modular frameworks that integrate loosely connected systems.
• Work across the aerodynamics team at GM Motorsports to identify value gaps and fill them with intuitive solutions
• Resolve technical blockers for the team. Pave the path for smooth delivery milestones through your leadership.
• Scrum story delivery for individual contributions.
• Playbooks, implementation architectures, interfaces, build frameworks, code, testing, deployment for your story.
• Working with other members to collaborate, support, and otherwise work together.
• Be reliable and self-managed in the delivery of your part of the total solution.

Additional Job Description

What You'll Need (Required Qualifications): 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or other relevant technical discipline
• Hands-on experience to expert level in one or more of the following: computational fluid dynamics (CFD) systems, microservices, data streaming platforms.
• Deep experience with designing and building full stack applications
• Experience building applications with cloud platforms and services (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc)
• 5+ years' experience specifically with microservices development
• 2+ years hands-on web services design and development experience
• Proficient in two or more of Java, JavaScript, Python, Scala, C++/C#/.Net and React or Angular
• Containerized software applications, platforms, and tools including Kubernetes, Docker
• Good understanding of software development best practices, devops, CI/CD
• Experience working in an agile/scrum environment

People Skills:

• Experience working in a professional environment requiring the ability to think critically, sort and separate user preferences from hard requirements. Ability to create solutions with little intervention within a fast-paced highly responsive team.
• Demonstrated (show us) technical acumen, your technical decisions, and knowledge of distributed, event driven applications and rich user experiences
• Highly collaborative work style with strong listening and communications skills

What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications):

• Masters degree in a technical discipline
• Exposure to aerodynamics engineering
• Advanced knowledge of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
• Development experience with VR frameworks such as Unity, Unreal Engine
• Experience with data streaming technologies such as Akka/Pekko, MQTT, Pulsar, Kafka, Azure Event Hubs
• Varied integration experience with RPC, REST, gRPC
• Experience/knowledge of Azure and Azure Resources or other SAAS/PAAS platforms
• Experience in cross platform (mobile/web) optimizing, profiling, and debugging
• Strong UI/UX Design experience across mobile and web 
• Team leadership and architecture experience
• Knowledge of stateless, functional models for system development
• Knowledge of data serialization techniques and libraries such as Avro, Google protocol buffers
• Passion for Motorsports and working in a high-pace environment

Company Vehicle: Upon successful completion of a motor vehicle report review, you will be eligible to participate in a company vehicle evaluation program, through which you will be assigned a General Motors vehicle to drive and evaluate.

Note: program participants are required to purchase/lease a qualifying GM vehicle every four years unless one of a limited number of exceptions applies.

GM DOES NOT PROVIDE IMMIGRATION-RELATED SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE. PLEASE DO NOT APPLY FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU WILL NEED GM IMMIGRATION SPONSORSHIP (e.g., H-1B, TN, STEM OPT, etc.) NOW OR IN THE FUTURE.

•This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.

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Why Join Us 

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Benefits Overview

The goal of the General Motors total rewards program is to support the health and well-being of you and your family. Our comprehensive compensation plan incudes, the following benefits, in addition to many others:
• Paid time off including vacation days, holidays, and parental leave for mothers, fathers and adoptive parents;
• Healthcare (including a triple tax advantaged health savings account and wellness incentive), dental, vision and life insurance plans to cover you and your family;
• Company and matching contributions to 401K savings plan to help you save for retirement;
• Global recognition program for peers and leaders to recognize and be recognized for results and behaviors that reflect our company values; 
• Tuition assistance and student loan refinancing;
• Discount on GM vehicles for you, your family and friends.

Diversity Information

General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that workforce diversity creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers.   We understand and embrace the variety through which people gain experiences whether through professional, personal, educational, or volunteer opportunities. GM is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

We encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications and apply for any positions that match your skills and capabilities.

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