Control System Integration Manager

General Motors LLC; United States; Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Company vehicle program

Relocation benefits available

Job summary

General Motors LLC is seeking a Controller System Integration Manager to lead embedded control product development within the VMEC organization. The role emphasizes technical leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and delivering on-time software and hardware integration across vehicle programs.

The position requires deep automotive experience, real-time embedded software expertise, and strong program management skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Computer Science or equivalent engineering field.
• Minimum of 7 years of engineering/technical experience.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in real-time embedded software systems and related areas.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience as a technical project lead or project manager.
• Experience leading meetings and driving results in cross-functional teams.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to handle complex problems in automotive development.

Responsibilities

• Define and manage embedded control product development and release plans to ensure on-time, high-quality delivery.
• Coordinate between calibration, SW DRE, SWIM, SWIL, and Hardware DREs to resolve issues.
• Act as integration manager and primary interface with customers and development partners; track deliverables.
• Refine, maintain, and prioritize the team backlog.
• Lead or support key meetings (Daily Stand-up, Software Execution Team).
• Provide technical leadership and direction for products; escalate issues for exec visibility.
• Collaborate with Leads to upscale software needs; guide corrective action for issues.
• Own system-level PRTS through PRC to identify issue owners.

Skills

Real-time embedded software

Technical leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Meeting leadership

Analytical thinking

Automotive product lifecycle

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Master's degree in engineering or MBA

Tools

AUTOSAR knowledge

Calibration/ validation tools

Job description

Work Arrangement

Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Milford, Michigan three times per week, at minimum.

The Role

We are looking for a Controller System Integration Manager (CSIM) to join our Vehicle Mechatronics Embedded Controls (VMEC) organization! This Controller System Integration Manager is a challenging technical leadership position in the development, integration and launch of embedded controller products in all vehicles. This Staff position is responsible for creating, communicating, and managing various types of ‘program’ plans and ensuring the on-time delivery of an embedded controller and/or its sub-components. In addition, you will lead the Daily Stand-Up meeting with key partners to ensure all requirements and tasks are met on-time with "world's best" quality. You will also lead and establish technical direction for both internal (GM) and external (supplier) engineering support personnel. This position includes frequent written and oral communication with executive leadership. Lastly, this role contains a high level of cross-functional responsibility with limited formal authority, providing excellent opportunities for developing and honing the skill of influencing others.

What You’ll Do

• Ensure that the product development and release plans are created and executed in adherence to engineering standard work for the purpose of on-time high quality delivery of VMEC embedded control products.
• Identify and resolve any coordination issues between the calibration team, SW DRE, SWIM, SWIL, and Hardware DREs.
• Act as an integration manager and primary interface with customers (e.g., vehicle program teams or vehicle assembly plants) and development partners (e.g., calibration teams, validation teams, or suppliers) of the specific product of responsibility; includes tracking and reporting status of deliverables.
• Refine, Maintain, and Prioritize the team backlog.
• Lead or support standard meetings related to specific responsibilities (e.g., Daily stand-up Meeting or Software Execution Team Meeting).
• Provides technical leadership ensuring issue resolution and appropriate technical direction for products of responsibility.
• Escalate issues as required, for executive leadership support.
• Interface with Lead Calibrators and Technical Specialists to upscale SW needs as required.
• Lead system level corrective action teams (e.g., critical launch issues with calibration and software coordinated action).
• Own system-level PRTS through PRC to identify key issue owners.
• Train, coach, mentor other team members in areas of strong competency.
• Lead and support continuous process improvements, best practices, lessons learned, and quality improvement initiatives.
• Single point controller contact for Propulsion product teams: represent controller team at Core PDT, SMT and GPS PAPIR/PET/CPIT/PPDR.
• Overall PRTS leader for all assigned programs: support status review, forecast risk and work across teams and leadership levels to deliver program content with best quality.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• Bachelor's degree in one of the following: Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or other equivalent engineering degrees.
• Minimum of 7 years of engineering/technical experience.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in real-time embedded software system, such as controller hardware design, sensor and actuator design, algorithm design, software development, calibration, integration, testing and validation, electrical architecture design, etc.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience as a technical project lead or project manager with proven experience in accomplishing project deliverables and goals.
• Experience leading meetings.
• Demonstrated drive for results and teamwork in project execution.
• Demonstrated analytical ability where problems are unusual and difficult.
• Demonstrated proficiency in project management skills, especially within automotive product lifecycle.
• Demonstrated skill to deliver results in a complex and highly demanding development and production environment addressing multiple high-priority topics with success.

What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Skills)

• Master’s degree in engineering or computer Science or MBA.
• 10+ years of automotive experience.
• Understanding of AUTOSAR software constructs and their implementation.
• Understanding of trouble shooting and root-causing vehicle issues.
• Understanding of vehicle architecture and Software Driven Vehicle concept.
• Understanding of automated software build and release process.

Company Vehicle

Upon successful completion of a motor vehicle report review, you will be eligible to participate in a company vehicle evaluation program, though 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. This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location at least 3 times a week {or other frequency dictated by their manager}. Relocation benefits are available for candidates who qualify under company policy.

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