Senior Engineer, Simulation Platform & Data Pipelines

General Motors; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors' Simulation, Evaluation, and Data organization seeks a senior software leader to define the technical vision and roadmap for Galileo and related simulation capabilities. You will design scalable systems that orchestrate millions of simulation miles and large test results, and lead cross-functional initiatives across engineering and product teams.

You will mentor engineers, translate customer needs into pragmatic strategies, and help shape GM's engineering culture with a focus on

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating production software systems.
• Proven cross-team technical leadership, including architectures adopted by multiple teams.
• Strong experience designing distributed systems and data-intensive applications.
• Production programming in Python and at least one additional language (Go, C++, Java, TS).
• Cloud platforms and modern delivery practices (CI/CD, observability).
• Experience creating developer tools or platform capabilities to boost productivity.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the technical vision, architecture, and multi-year roadmap for Galileo and related simulation-platform capabilities.
• Design and implement scalable systems capable of orchestrating and analyzing millions of simulation miles and large volumes of test results.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives that integrate simulation, evaluation, data, and developer tooling into regular engineering and release workflows.
• Build platform capabilities for test creation, test-suite management, execution orchestration, result storage, data processing, visualization, and quantitative analysis.
• Establish durable architectural patterns for distributed systems, service interfaces, data-intensive workflows, and cloud-based infrastructure.
• Mentor engineers and multiply team effectiveness through technical guidance, reusable patterns, documentation, and constructive feedback.

Skills

Distributed systems

Python

Go

C++

Java

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Robotics, Engineering, or related field

Tools

PostgreSQL

BigQuery

DuckDB

Looker

Streamlit

dbt

Dataform

SQL

ROS

Job description

General Motors' Simulation, Evaluation, and Data organization seeks a senior software leader to define the technical vision and roadmap for Galileo and related simulation capabilities. You will design scalable systems that orchestrate millions of simulation miles and large test results, and lead cross-functional initiatives across engineering and product teams.

You will mentor engineers, translate customer needs into pragmatic strategies, and help shape GM's engineering culture with a focus on