Software Engineer, Simulation Scalability - Sim RIM (Release and Incident Management) Focus

General Motors; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 153,000 - 234,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

GM vehicle discounts

Tuition assistance

Job summary

General Motors is seeking engineers to join the Simulation Scalability team in Mountain View to improve release management, testing strategy, and system reliability across large-scale simulation pipelines.

You will shape end‑to‑end release processes, drive quality gates, and collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to reduce regressions and accelerate validation cycles. Strong coding in Python or C++ is required, with a focus on distributed, production-grade systems.

Qualifications

• Strong programming skills in Python or C++.
• Experience designing, building, or supporting production‑grade systems.
• Background in reliability, performance, or developer workflows in distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead improvements to end‑to‑end simulation release processes and quality strategies.
• Define simulation‑wide testing and validation approaches, including shift‑left testing.
• Strengthen release readiness criteria and verification workflows across teams.
• Collaborate with product teams to reduce regressions and shorten validation cycles.
• Improve performance and stability of simulation frameworks and core tooling.
• Identify systemic bottlenecks and drive architectural improvements for scalability.

Skills

Python

C++

Distributed systems

Reliability engineering

Job description

Job Description

About the Team

The Simulation Scalability team builds the core systems, frameworks, and workflows that ensure simulation runs reliably, efficiently, and at scale. We work across all simulation products and pipelines, addressing systemic issues, improving release quality, and strengthening the foundations that enable teams to iterate quickly and confidently.

Our work spanssystems architecture, software engineering, release management, and quality strategy, with a mission to increase reliability, throughput, and operational excellence across the entire simulation ecosystem.

WhatYou’llDo

Release Management & Quality Strategy

• Lead improvements to the end‑to‑end simulation release process, ensuring it is predictable, well‑defined, and continuously improving.
• Define and drive the simulation‑wide quality and test strategy, including shift‑left testing, automated validation, and early‑signal integration.
• Strengthen release readiness criteria, quality gates, and verification workflows across multiple simulation teams.
• Partner with product teams to reduce regressions, shorten validation cycles, and ensure higher‑confidence releases.

Scalability, Reliability & Stability

• Improve the performance, stability, and reliability of simulation frameworks and core tooling used at scale.
• Identifysystemic bottlenecks in the simulation stack and deliver architectural improvements that increase throughput and reduce operational friction.
• Enhance simulation exit codes, errorattribution, and debugging workflows to improve diagnosability and reduce wasted compute.

Operational Excellence

• Establish and enforcebest practices forsimulationincident management,improving resilience, recovery time, and overall operational readiness.
• Improve signals, metrics, and monitoring patterns that help teamsidentifyrelease-related issues earlier and more accurately.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Collaborate closely withsimulationfeature teams, infrastructure groups, and platform stakeholders to align on scaling needs, test coverage gaps, and systemic quality improvements.
• Work backward from organizational-level problems to design solutions that raise simulation quality and reliability across all workflows.

Who You Are

We’relooking for engineers with depth in at least one of the following areas, and interest in growing across the rest.

1. Release Engineering & Quality Strategy

• Experience improving release workflows, verification processes, or quality gates.
• Ability to spot gaps in test coverage, validation workflows, or release signals and drive systemic improvements.

2. Systems & Solutions Architecture

• Ability to analyze complex simulation or compute workflows and design scalable, maintainable solutions.
• Skilled at identifying recurring failure patterns and eliminating systemic causes.

3. Software Development

• Strong coding fundamentals with experience building production-quality services, frameworks, or tools.
• Background improving reliability, performance, or developer experience in distributed systems.

We welcome candidates who bring strongexpertisein one area and are eager to expand into the others.

Your Skills & Abilities

• Strong programming skills in Python or C++.

• Experience designing, building, or supporting production-grade systems.

• Ability to operate in ambiguous problem spaces and drive clarity across teams.

• Strong problem-solving skills in reliability, quality, or systems design.

What Will Give You A Competitive Edge

• Experience with simulation systems, distributed compute, large-scale pipelines, or validation frameworks.

• Background in release management, quality engineering, or test strategy.

• Experience improving system reliability, performance, or developer workflows.

• Familiarity with incident response or operational excellence practices.

Why Join the Simulation Scalability Team

• You will shape the quality, reliability, and scalability of the entire simulation ecosystem.

• You’ll work on high-impact systems with organization-wide visibility.

• You’ll influence how simulation releases are validated, shipped, and scaled for the future.

Compensation

The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance with applicable state laws. The compensation may not be representative for positions located outside of New York, Colorado, California, or Washington.

• The salary range for this role is $153,200 to $234,100. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.
• Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.

Benefits

GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs. Benefit options include medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance programs, employee assistance program, GM vehicle discounts and more.

About GM

Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.

Why Join Us

We believe we all must make a choice every day – individually and collectively – to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.

Benefits Overview

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