Staff Software Engineer - Simulation Platform (Galileo)
General Motors23 hours ago
Base Salary
$185k - $284k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define Galileo’s technical vision, architecture, and multi-year roadmap.
- Design and implement scalable systems for simulation orchestration, test management, result storage, data processing, visualization, and analysis.
- Lead cross-functional initiatives integrating simulation, evaluation, data, and developer tooling into engineering and release workflows.
- Establish architectural patterns for distributed systems, service interfaces, data-intensive workflows, and cloud-based infrastructure.
- Improve performance, reliability, cost, usability, and operational scalability using measurable outcomes.
- Drive design reviews, code reviews, automated testing, continuous integration, observability, incident learning, and operational ownership.
- Communicate technical tradeoffs, risks, and dependencies and drive decisions across organizational boundaries.
- Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance, reusable patterns, documentation, and feedback.
- Partner with product and engineering leaders to translate customer needs into technical strategies and deliverables.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Robotics, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 7+ years of experience building and operating production software systems, platforms, or infrastructure.
- Experience providing cross-team technical leadership and defining strategies or architectures adopted by multiple teams.
- Strong experience with distributed systems, service-oriented or microservice architectures, and data-intensive applications.
- Production programming experience in Python and at least one additional language such as Go, C++, Java, TypeScript, or a similar language.
- Experience with cloud platforms, automated testing, observability, operational excellence, and modern software delivery practices.
- Experience building developer tools, automation, or platform capabilities with broad internal adoption.
- Strong written and verbal communication, independent judgment, prioritization, and cross-organizational delivery skills.
- Preferred experience includes autonomous vehicles, robotics, simulation, validation, evaluation, safety-critical systems, large-scale experiments, test frameworks, scenario libraries, metrics systems, release gating, continuous evaluation pipelines, relational databases, analytical technologies, data transformation tools, ROS, Python/C++ interoperability, visualization, dashboarding, and performance or cost optimization.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation and holidays, tuition assistance, employee assistance program, and GM vehicle discounts.
- Eligible employees may participate in a company vehicle evaluation program after a successful motor vehicle report review; participants generally must purchase or lease a qualifying GM vehicle every four years unless an exception applies.
- The role may be eligible for relocation benefits.
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring the selected candidate to report to a specific location at least three times per week, or at a frequency set by the manager.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About General Motors
General Motors designs, manufactures, and sells cars, trucks, and electric vehicles for consumers and commercial fleets under brands including Chevrolet, GMC, Cadillac, and Buick. A public company on the NYSE headquartered in Detroit and founded in 1908, it operates globally and is developing EVs on its Ultium battery platform. Revenue comes from vehicle and parts sales, connected services such as OnStar, and financing through GM Financial.