Senior SDV Product Integration Lead

General Motors; Michigan; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Senior Manager to lead software-defined vehicle feature integration, bridging feature intent with hardware, wiring, and vehicle-level operation. The role builds an enterprise‑quality integration system to trace dependencies, enable progressive integration, and identify defects upstream, influencing engineering teams across boundaries.

Preferred candidates bring deep SDV experience and a track record establishing strategy, standards, and operating models.

Qualifications

• Extensive theoretical and practical expertise in complex vehicle electrical, embedded software, systems, or software-defined vehicle integration.
• Ability to connect hardware, networks, controllers, software, calibration, infrastructure, validation, and vehicle-level behavior into an end-to-end technical view.
• Experience solving unique, multidimensional, and ambiguous problems with limited information through independent judgment and long-term perspective.
• Proven ability to establish technical strategy, standards, methods, and operating models that influence multiple teams, programs, or functional areas.
• Experience leading cross-functional integration, release-readiness, root-cause, or quality-improvement initiatives with measurable business or product impact.
• Strong communication, negotiation, facilitation, and conflict-resolution skills across technical and organizational boundaries.
• Demonstrated commitment to GM Values and Behaviors, including integrity, customer focus, innovation, inclusion, teamwork, accountability, urgency, and speaking fearlessly.

Responsibilities

• Directly lead the product integration team.
• Define and evolve the SDV product-integration strategy, operating model, methods, standards, and readiness criteria across vehicle programs.
• Establish a feature-centered digital thread linking feature behavior and variants to hardware, wiring, HWIO, signals, services, controllers, software repositories, infrastructure dependencies, calibration, builds, vehicle configurations, test cases, logs, and integration evidence.
• Create machine-readable feature and system models that connect functional behavior, data flow, network paths, physical interfaces, software implementation, degraded behavior, and variant-specific content.
• Drive cross-stack dependency identification across electrical architecture, software, cybersecurity, identity and authorization, service discovery, network management, flash programming, deployment, calibration, diagnostics, logging, observability, time synchronization, and configuration management.
• Define progressive integration and validation strategies spanning source/component analysis, controller builds, virtual subsystems, hardware subsystems, multi-controller integration, full-vehicle validation, and release readiness.
• Establish bench-automation and subsystem-surrogate strategies, including missing-controller simulation, sensor and actuator surrogates, rest-bus simulation, controlled fault injection, stub detection, automated bench configuration, reusable feature test environments, and progressive replacement with production content.
• Develop automated analysis that traces signal producers and consumers, validates services and calibrations, compares HWIO usage with electrical definitions, detects stubbed or bypassed behavior, checks variant compatibility, and compares source intent with compiled-build behavior.
• Define CI/CD quality gates, integration evidence, entry and exit criteria, promotion criteria, failure ownership, escalation paths, and feedback loops into requirements, design, code, calibration, and standard work.
• Lead feature-level root-cause analysis and triage across organizational boundaries, translating operational evidence into actionable improvements for engineering products, tools, and processes.
• Build alignment among senior technical leaders and partner organizations, resolve conflicting assumptions, and communicate risks, decisions, and recommendations with clarity and candor.

Skills

Technical leadership

Systems thinking

Strategic planning

Communication

Negotiation

Facilitation

Tools

CAN

LIN

SENT

Ethernet

HWIO

ARXML

Software builds

Job description

General Motors is seeking a Senior Manager to lead software-defined vehicle feature integration, bridging feature intent with hardware, wiring, and vehicle-level operation. The role builds an enterprise‑quality integration system to trace dependencies, enable progressive integration, and identify defects upstream, influencing engineering teams across boundaries.

Preferred candidates bring deep SDV experience and a track record establishing strategy, standards, and operating models.