Senior Electrical DAE: AI-Driven Toolchain Lead (Hybrid)

General Motors; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

GM vehicle discounts

Health benefits

Tuition assistance

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Senior Electrical Design Automation Engineer to lead the integration, extension, and automation of Siemens Capital and related toolchains. You will own scalable AI‑agent workflows, design automation, and software integrations across electrical engineering and manufacturing domains.

Hybrid role based in Warren, MI, with collaboration across global teams. You will drive data models, validation, and release readiness while ensuring traceability from requirements to

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Computer, Software, Systems, Mechanical, Automotive, or related engineering field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in electrical design, harness engineering, engineering software, design automation, or systems integration.
• Experience developing software, scripts, plugins, APIs, or automated engineering workflows.
• Experience with Siemens Capital or a comparable ECAD, MCAD, harness, PLM, or engineering‑design platform.
• Proficiency in Python, C#, C++, Java, JavaScript, VBA, or a comparable language.
• Experience with JSON, XML, SQL, REST APIs, file‑based interfaces, data mapping, or message‑based communication.
• Ability to understand electrical connectivity, engineering models, design constraints, and downstream manufacturing requirements.
• Ability to lead technical work, communicate across functions, and deliver maintainable solutions.

Responsibilities

• Capital integration and toolchain ownership: Architect integrations across Siemens Capital Logic, Capital Harness, Capital Topology, Capital Integrator, Capital Platform Designer, and adjacent systems.
• Evaluate Capital capabilities, identify gaps, and recommend configuration, customization, plugin, or service‑based solutions.
• Partner with vendors and internal platform teams to resolve issues and influence product roadmaps.
• Plugin, API, and automation development: Design, develop, test, document, and support plugins, APIs, connectors, scripts, and services for electrical design workflows.
• Automate model creation, connectivity checks, design‑rule validation, drawing generation, bill‑of‑material extraction, reporting, and release preparation.
• Build reliable import, export, comparison, and validation pipelines to identify missing data, invalid connectivity, inconsistencies, and release defects.
• Apply software‑engineering practices including source control, code review, automated testing, logging, error handling, and configuration management.
• Support CI/CD where appropriate for engineering applications and automation services.
• AI tools for PSDS within VSEE: Develop, deploy, and maintain AI agents and AI‑enabled tools for the Power and Signal Distribution Systems (PSDS) organization within VSEE.
• Convert existing PSDS engineering, design‑release, quality, and knowledge‑management processes into secure, usable, and maintainable AI workflows.
• Integrate AI tools with engineering data and systems while preserving data quality, access controls, traceability, and engineering accountability.
• Electrical engineering and system integration: Apply knowledge of electrical architecture, wiring systems, power and signal distribution, grounding, shielding, connectors, terminals, splices, and communication networks.
• Maintain traceability from requirements and logical connectivity through physical routing, drawings, bills of material, manufacturing outputs, verification, and change management.
• Participate in design reviews, root‑cause analysis, tool validation, process definition, and release‑readiness assessments.

Skills

Electrical design

Python

C++

API development

Engineering software

Systems integration

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Siemens Capital

Job description

General Motors is seeking a Senior Electrical Design Automation Engineer to lead the integration, extension, and automation of Siemens Capital and related toolchains. You will own scalable AI‑agent workflows, design automation, and software integrations across electrical engineering and manufacturing domains.

Hybrid role based in Warren, MI, with collaboration across global teams. You will drive data models, validation, and release readiness while ensuring traceability from requirements to