Engineering Leader AI-Driven Enterprise Platforms

General Motors; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors in Austin, TX is seeking an engineering leader who still ships code. You’ll head multiple teams building the business-critical platforms, integrations, and modernization programs behind GM sources parts and delivers vehicles.

You’ll own the technical direction, the delivery, and the results. You’ll stay hands-on: writing and reviewing code, debugging hard problems, prototyping, and working directly with agents.

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science or related field
• 10+ years of software engineering and people leadership
• Hands-on coding in Java or C++, plus frontend frameworks such as Angular or React
• 1+ year of substantial hands-on use of AI coding agents in production
• Experience with distributed systems, APIs, event-driven architecture, and cloud platforms
• Experience modernizing legacy systems while supporting business-critical delivery
• Experience establishing and improving engineering standards, development lifecycle practices, and delivery discipline
• Ability to lead across ambiguity, influence senior stakeholders
• Strong coaching and mentoring capability with a track record of raising technical effectiveness
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical issues clearly

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple engineering teams across a portfolio of modern platforms, APIs, integrations, and legacy systems
• Turn business strategy into roadmaps and KPIs, then deliver them
• Partner with product, business, architecture, operations, and delivery leaders to translate business needs into scalable engineering solutions
• Make the hard architecture calls and set a high bar for quality, security, and reliability
• Get hands‑on through code reviews, debugging, technical spikes, and proofs of concept
• Drive modernization strategies for legacy applications, including decomposition, platform evolution, integration simplification, and reduction of technical debt
• Roll out AI coding agents across the SDLC, with guardrails that make agent‑written code safe to ship
• Build agent tooling such as MCP servers, custom agents, and agent‑driven CI/CD for PR review, test generation, and large‑scale migrations
• Measure what works with DORA metrics, cycle time, and change‑failure rate, and report results to leadership
• Hire and grow engineers and tech leads who are fast, rigorous, and accountable for everything they merge
• Create a culture of accountability, technical excellence, continuous learning, and customer‑focused delivery
• Own production health by leading incident response and driving root causes to durable fixes

Skills

Java or C++

Angular or React

AI coding agents

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Leadership

Code reviews

Metrics & delivery

Education

BS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

General Motors in Austin, TX is seeking an engineering leader who still ships code. You’ll head multiple teams building the business-critical platforms, integrations, and modernization programs behind GM sources parts and delivers vehicles.

You’ll own the technical direction, the delivery, and the results. You’ll stay hands-on: writing and reviewing code, debugging hard problems, prototyping, and working directly with agents.