Hardware Optimization Scrum Lead (Hybrid)

General Motors Company; Warren (MI); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors, located in Warren, Michigan, seeks a Scrum Manager for GVHE Hardware Optimization to lead agile backlogs and translate hardware optimization needs into executable stories across hardware/software domains.

You will own the team backlog, drive cross-functional collaboration, and ensure alignment with ART objectives while enabling seamless integration and validation of hardware features.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, systems engineering, or a related technical field; or equivalent relevant experience.
• Minimum of 3 years of relevant engineering, technical product ownership, Agile delivery, systems engineering, controls, simulation, or program execution experience.
• Demonstrated experience owning and prioritizing a technical backlog across multiple sprints or releases.
• Demonstrated ability to write or guide the creation of clear, testable Stories, acceptance criteria, and Definition-of-Done expectations.
• Working knowledge of Scrum and/or SAFe practices, including backlog refinement, iteration planning, PI Planning, retrospectives, System Demos, and risk/dependency management.
• Experience using Jira or a comparable work-management tool to maintain backlog, status, dependencies, and delivery visibility.
• Understanding of hardware/software integration, systems engineering, requirements capture, and validation or testing practices.
• Strong analytical judgment and ability to make sound prioritization decisions with incomplete or changing information.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical issues to varied audiences.
• Ability to influence across functions and organizations without relying on direct authority.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining quality, timing, stakeholder alignment, and delivery risk awareness.
• Willingness to work in a hybrid environment and collaborate across geographically distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the Scrum Team backlog aligned with strategy and vision.
• Serve as technical subject matter expert for the Scrum Team.
• Establish and maintain a backlog for hardware optimization and co-optimization capabilities across the assigned domain.
• Work with end users to define problems, desired outcomes, value hypotheses, and measurable acceptance criteria.
• Decompose ART Features, capabilities, and technical enablers into Stories that are clear, testable, estimable, and traceable.
• Coordinate the team’s capacity, sequencing, and commitments across multiple sprints and program milestones.
• Partner with Hardware Architects, System Integration Architects, Dev Leads, modelers, and validation engineers to ensure technical feasibility and integration readiness.
• Drive visibility of cross-team dependencies involving models, interfaces, requirements, environments, test support, data, suppliers, or software/hardware baselines.
• Represent the team in appropriate ART-level coordination forums and bring forward only the topics requiring cross-team alignment, decisions, or escalation.
• Ensure Jira is the system of record for backlog status, ownership, acceptance criteria, dependencies, and delivery progress
• Support focused System Demos and Inspect and Adapt events by confirming evidence, outcomes, gaps, and follow-up actions.
• Facilitate healthy team culture, inclusive decision-making, constructive conflict resolution, and continuous learning
• Help mature repeatable processes for CoSIM, virtual validation, hardware parameter definition, optimization studies, and engineering evidence.

Skills

Agile delivery

Backlog ownership

Stakeholder alignment

Cross-functional collaboration

Jira

Confluence

Git

MATLAB/Simulink

Python

Cameo/SysML

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Git

MATLAB/Simulink

Python

Cameo/SysML

Job description

General Motors, located in Warren, Michigan, seeks a Scrum Manager for GVHE Hardware Optimization to lead agile backlogs and translate hardware optimization needs into executable stories across hardware/software domains.

You will own the team backlog, drive cross-functional collaboration, and ensure alignment with ART objectives while enabling seamless integration and validation of hardware features.