Software Engineer, Simulation Scalability - Sim RIM (Release and Incident Management) Focus

General Motors; Markham; Hybrid; CAD 161,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Healthcare, dental & vision

Life insurance

Pension plan

GM Vehicle Purchase Plan

Job summary

General Motors is seeking engineers for the Simulation Scalability team to enhance release engineering, quality strategy, and scalability of simulation frameworks. You will drive end-to-end release improvements, define quality gates, and collaborate with product teams to minimize regressions and speed up validation across distributed systems.

The role emphasizes strong coding skills in Python/C++, production system optimization, and incident management, with a hybrid onsite/remote work model

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Python and/or C++ required.
• Experience with CI/CD and build/release management.
• Strong software architecture for distributed systems.
• Experience supporting production systems and performance optimization.
• Experience with release management systems and regression testing.
• Hands-on coding and problem-solving abilities.
• Experience with incident management.

Responsibilities

• Lead improvements to the end-to-end simulation release process, ensuring it is predictable and well-defined.
• Define and drive the simulation-wide quality and test strategy, including shift-left testing and automated validation.
• Strengthen release readiness criteria, quality gates, and verification workflows across teams.
• Partner with product teams to reduce regressions and shorten validation cycles.

Skills

Python/C++

CI/CD

Distributed systems

Production systems

Release management

Code debugging

Incident management

Job description

Job Description

Vacancy Status:

No: This posting is not for an existing vacancy within the organization and is open to new applications. (New Head Count)

AI Disclosure:

As part of the application process, Artificial Intelligence will be used in the hiring process for this role

Remote/Hybrid: candidates can be considered anywhere in the country of work, but if someone is within 80 KM of a hub, they are required to be onsite 3 days a week.

About the Team

The Simulation Scalability team builds the core systems, frameworks, and workflows that ensure simulation runs reliably, efficiently, and at scale. We work across all simulation products and pipelines, addressing systemic issues, improving release quality, and strengthening the foundations that enable teams to iterate quickly and confidently.

Our work spans systems architecture, software engineering, release management, and quality strategy, with a mission to increase reliability, throughput, and operational excellence across the entire simulation ecosystem.

WhatYou’llDo

Release Management & Quality Strategy

• Lead improvements to the end‑to‑end simulation release process, ensuring it is predictable, well‑defined, and continuously improving.
• Define and drive the simulation-wide quality and test strategy, including shift‑left testing, automated validation, and early‑signal integration.
• Strengthen release readiness criteria, quality gates, and verification workflows across multiple simulation teams.
• Partner with product teams to reduce regressions, shorten validation cycles, and ensure higher-confidence releases.

Scalability, Reliability & Stability

• Improve the performance, stability, and reliability of simulation frameworks and core tooling used at scale.
• Identify system bottlenecks in the simulation stack and deliver architectural improvements that increase throughput and reduce operational friction.
• Enhance simulation exit codes, error attribution, and debugging workflows to improve diagnosability and reduce wasted compute.

Operational Excellence

• Establish and enforce best practices for simulation incident management, improving resilience, recovery time, and overall operational readiness.
• Improve signals, metrics, and monitoring patterns that help teams identify release‑related issues earlier and more accurately.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Collaborate closely with simulation feature teams, infrastructure groups, and platform stakeholders to align on scaling needs, test coverage gaps, and systemic quality improvements.
• Work backward from organizational‑level problems to design solutions that raise simulation quality and reliability across all workflows.

Who You Are

We’re looking for engineers with depth in at least one of the following areas, and interest in growing across the rest:

1. Release Engineering & Quality Strategy

• Experience improving release workflows, verification processes, or quality gates.
• Ability to spot gaps in test coverage, validation workflows, or release signals and drive systemic improvements.

2. Systems & Solutions Architecture

• Ability to analyze complex simulation or compute workflows and design scalable, maintainable solutions.
• Skilled at identifying recurring failure patterns and eliminating systemic causes.

3. Software Development

• Strong coding fundamentals with experience building production‑quality services, frameworks, or tools.
• Background improving reliability, performance, or developer experience in distributed systems.

We welcome candidates who bring strong expertise in one area and are eager to expand into the others.

Required Skills:

• Proficiency in Python and/or C++
• Experience with build and release management, including CI/CD
• Strong software architecture skills, with experience building distributed systems
• Experience supporting production systems and optimizing performance
• Experience with release management systems and integration/regression testing
• Strong hands‑on coding and problem‑solving abilities
• Experience with incident management.

Compensation:

The salary range for this role is $ 115,000 to $ 164,600. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.

GM DOES NOT PROVIDE IMMIGRATION‑RELATED SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE. DO NOT APPLY FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU WILL NEED GM IMMIGRATION SPONSORSHIP NOW OR IN THE FUTURE

Benefits:

• Paid time off including vacation days, holidays, and supplemental benefits for pregnancy, parental and adoption leave.
• Healthcare, dental and vision benefits including health care spending account and wellness incentive.
• Life insurance plans to cover you and your family.
• Company and matching contributions to a Defined Contribution Pension plan to help you save for retirement.
• GM Vehicle Purchase Plan for you, your family, and friends.

About GM

Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.

Why Join Us

We believe we all must make a choice every day – individually and collectively – to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.

Non-Discrimination and Equal Employment Opportunities

General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of unlawful discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that providing an inclusive workplace creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers.

Accommodations

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