Sponsorship: GM DOES NOT PROVIDE IMMIGRATION-RELATED SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE. DO NOT APPLY FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU WILL NEED GM IMMIGRATION SPONSORSHIP NOW OR IN THE FUTURE. THIS INCLUDES DIRECT COMPANY SPONSORSHIP, ENTRY OF GM AS THE IMMIGRATION EMPLOYER OF RECORD ON A GOVERNMENT FORM, AND ANY WORK AUTHORIZATION REQUIRING A WRITTEN SUBMISSION OR OTHER IMMIGRATION SUPPORT FROM THE COMPANY (e.g., H-1B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc.)
Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Milford Proving Grounds three times per week, at minimum [or other frequency dictated by the business].
The Role :
We are looking for a Staff System Engineer (CSIM) to join our Vehicle Mechatronics Embedded Controls (VMEC) organization! The Staff System Engineer is a challenging technical leadership position in the development, integration and launch of embedded controller products specific to Transmission Control Systems. This position is responsible for creating, communicating, and managing various types of ‘program’ plans and ensuring the on-time delivery of an embedded controller and/or its sub-components. In addition, you will lead the Daily Stand-Up meeting with key partners to ensure all requirements and tasks are met on-time with "world's best" quality. You will also lead and establish technical direction for both internal (GM) and external (supplier) engineering support personnel. This position includes frequent written and oral communication with executive leadership. Lastly, this role contains a high level of cross-functional responsibility with limited formal authority, providing excellent opportunities for developing and honing the skill of influencing others.
What You'll Do
- Ensure that the product development and release plans are created and executed in adherence to engineering standard work for the purpose of on-time high quality delivery of VMEC embedded control products.
- Identify and resolve any coordination issues between the calibration team, SW DRE, SWIM, SWIL, and ECM Hardware DRE/
- Act as an integration manager and primary interface with customers (e.g., vehicle program teams or vehicle assembly plants) and development partners (e.g., calibration teams, validation teams, or suppliers) of the specific product of responsibility; includes tracking and reporting status of deliverables.
- Refine, Maintain, and Prioritize the team backlog
- Lead or support standard meetings related to specific responsibilities (e.g., Daily stand-up Meeting or Software Execution Team Meeting)
- Provides technical leadership ensuring issue resolution and appropriate technical direction for products of responsibility
- Escalate issues as required, for executive leadership support
- Interface with Lead Calibrators and Technical Specialists to escalate SW needs as required
- Lead system level corrective action teams (e.g., critical launch issues with calibration and software coordinated action)
- Own system-level PRTS through PRC to identify key issue owners
- Train, coach, mentor other team members in areas of strong competency
- Lead and support continuous process improvements, best practices, lessons learned, and quality improvement initiatives.
- Single point controller contact for GPS product teams: represent controller team at Core PDT, SMT and GPS PAPIR/PET/CPIT/PPDR.
- Overall PRTS leader for all assigned programs: support status review, forecast risk and work across teams and leadership levels to deliver program content with best quality.
