Job Description
Workplace Status:
Hybrid - This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to their primary location three times per week, at minimum, or other frequency dictated by the business.
The Team:
General Motors is at the forefront of the transformation of automotive with the electrification of our portfolio and the development of leading-edge central compute and autonomous capabilities. Our Embedded Platforms Infrastructure System Engineering team is a dynamic, high-energy, and innovative group focused on designing the software platform that underpins our electronics architecture including safety, communications, cybersecurity, memory, programming, and power management functions across our vehicle portfolio.
The Role:
We are seeking a high-performing Project Manager passionate about coordinating a team consisting of system and software engineers designing and deploying the Software Defined Vehicle 2.0 infrastructure. This individual will be depended on to build strong connections with internal and external partners.
The selected individual will be expected to actively expand the boundaries of innovation, learn quickly, proactively pursue resolving systemic issues of prior architectures, and define the execution path in a quickly changing environment. They will be counted on to provide thought and team leadership, facilitate communication, and inspire passion.
What You'll Do:
- Developing project plans for system engineering deliverables.
- Manage execution of system and software engineering deliverables to project milestones.
- Understand design and development task dependencies for robust planning.
- Prioritize project execution plans based on conflicting priorities and needs.
- Lead department’s business process reviews.
- Tracking progress and communicating project status updates to leadership and stakeholders.
- Identifying and managing project risks on a weekly basis.
- Facilitating wall reviews, problem solving teams, emerging issue concerns.
- Ensuring deliverables are met with defined quality standards on time.
Additional Job Description
What You'll Need (Required Qualifications):
- Bachelors degree in Computer/Software/Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science.
- 5+ years of engineering experience in electronics/software design and development.
- Exceptional collaboration and teamwork skills; demonstrated ability for working across functional and organizational boundaries.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts.
- Strong experience driving business case driven technical solution decisions for broad organization.
- Knowledge of program management tools (Jira, ServiceNow).
- Knowledge of software validation process.
What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)
- Advanced degree in Business, Electrical/Software/Computer Engineering/Science.
- Experience with software project management or program management.
- Knowledge in computer networking protocols, architecture & communications.
- Experience with network simulation and analysis tools, programming languages (e.g., C/C++, Python), and software development for embedded systems.
- Strong comprehension of automotive software development, architecture and AUTOSAR ethernet stack, experience with software bring-up.
• This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.
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About GM
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Why Join Us
We aspire to be the most inclusive company in the world. 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. Our Work Appropriately philosophy supports our foundation of inclusion and provides employees the flexibility to work where they can have the greatest impact on achieving our goals, dependent on role needs. Every day, we want every employee, no matter their background, ethnicity, preferences, or location, to feel they belong to one General Motors team.
Benefits Overview
The goal of the General Motors total rewards program is to support the health and well-being of you and your family. Our comprehensive compensation plan incudes, the following benefits, in addition to many others:
• Paid time off including vacation days, holidays, and parental leave for mothers, fathers and adoptive parents;
• Healthcare (including a triple tax advantaged health savings account and wellness incentive), dental, vision and life insurance plans to cover you and your family;
• Company and matching contributions to 401K savings plan to help you save for retirement;
• Global recognition program for peers and leaders to recognize and be recognized for results and behaviors that reflect our company values;
• Tuition assistance and student loan refinancing;
• Discount on GM vehicles for you, your family and friends.
Diversity Information
General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that workforce diversity creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers. We understand and embrace the variety through which people gain experiences whether through professional, personal, educational, or volunteer opportunities. GM is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
We encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications and apply for any positions that match your skills and capabilities.
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