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

General Motors Ventures; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors Ventures seeks an engineer to lead release engineering, quality strategy, and scalable simulation improvements. You will own end-to-end release processes, drive testing strategy, and collaborate across teams to raise reliability and efficiency of the simulation ecosystem.

The role emphasizes cross-functional leadership, architectural thinking, and delivering measurable improvements in throughput and operational excellence within a large automotive-scale environment.

Qualifications

• Experience improving release workflows, verification processes, or quality gates.
• Ability to spot gaps in test coverage and drive systemic improvements.
• Strong analytical thinking with distributed systems background.

Responsibilities

• Lead improvements to the end-to-end simulation release process.
• Define and drive the simulation-wide quality and test strategy.
• Strengthen release readiness criteria, quality gates, and verification workflows.
• Partner with product teams to reduce regressions and shorten validation cycles.
• Improve performance, stability, and reliability of simulation frameworks.
• Identify bottlenecks and deliver architectural improvements.
• Enhance incident management, monitoring, and post-incident analysis.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align on scaling needs and quality.

Skills

Release engineering

Systems architecture

Software development

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

What You’ll Do

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.
• Identify systemic bottlenecks in the simulation stack and deliver architectural improvements that increase throughput and reduce operational friction.
• Enhance simulation exit codes, error attribution, and debugging workflows to improve diagnosability and reduce wasted compute.

Operational Excellence

• Establish and enforce best practices for simulation incident management, improving resilience, recovery time, and overall operational readiness.
• Improve signals, metrics, and monitoring patterns that help teams identify release-related issues earlier and more accurately.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Collaborate closely with simulation feature 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’re looking 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 strong expertise in one area and are eager to expand into the others.

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.

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