Workplace Classification:
Hybrid: This position does not require an employee to be on-site full-time to perform most effectively. This position requires an employee to be onsite up to 3 times per week at either our Charlotte or Austin Technical Centers.
The Team:
GM’s Motorsports Software team analyzes, defines, and delivers next generation groundbreaking Motorsports IT software solutions. Using both innovative cloud-based infrastructure and software development standards, these solutions enable innovative interactions between GM Global Engineering, GM Motorsports, and our Race teams that accelerate our drivers to the finish line first! Our combined team of analysts, architects, developers, data engineers, testers, and project managers work with GM Motorsports Engineering and Race teams to ensure podium wins for GM’s NASCAR, IndyCar, and IMSA sportscar teams!
The Role:
The Staff Software Engineer will serve in a dual role of providing technical leadership as well as software delivery. This is an experienced position requiring an expert level technical foundation, significant hands-on contributions to projects, leading in the development of solution architectures, and broad exposure to scalable systems development in the cloud. As a Lead Software Engineer, you will have the opportunity to apply your experience and training to shape, then apply your vision in building Motorsports software. At GM Motorsports, we build systems to provide our teams with a competitive advantage on race day then apply those learnings toward production vehicle development. This is a highly visible role focused on aerodynamics systems design.
What You'll Do (Responsibilities):
- Lead a team of developers to implement and maintain GM Motorsports aero-thermal applications including CFD model construction, visualization, and analysis. Create pluggable systems that are orchestrated by the platform.
- Solution architectures, lead the team in "how", gain consensus.
- Focus on modern application design, code quality, modular frameworks that integrate loosely connected systems.
- Work across the aerodynamics team at GM Motorsports to identify value gaps and fill them with intuitive solutions
- Resolve technical blockers for the team. Pave the path for smooth delivery milestones through your leadership.
- Scrum story delivery for individual contributions.
- Playbooks, implementation architectures, interfaces, build frameworks, code, testing, deployment for your story.
- Working with other members to collaborate, support, and otherwise work together.
- Be reliable and self-managed in the delivery of your part of the total solution.
