Senior Software Engineer - Aero Platform (Motorsports)

Job Description

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:  

This newly formed position is a Senior Software Developer position to support development of a new Software team focused on Aero & Computational Fluid Dynamics. For this role you will expected to have progressive, demonstrated success in software development experience developing applications using a variety of tools, languages, frameworks, and technologies. As a world-class competition organization, a demonstrated interest in and/or direct participation in Motorsport is an important qualification for candidates.

What You'll Do (Responsibilities):

• Implement and maintain GM Motorsports aero-thermal applications including CFD model construction, visualization, and analysis using microservices architectures to creatively integrate loosely coupled systems.
• Define a templated approach to integrate dependent systems in a functional programming model.
• Scrum story delivery.
• Playbooks, implementation architectures, interfaces, build frameworks, code, testing, deployment for your story.
• Participation in solution architectures.
• 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.

Additional Job Description

What You'll Need (Required Qualifications):

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Aerospace, Mechanical Engineering, or relevant technical discipline
• 5+ years hands-on full stack or XR development experience
• 2+ years hands-on web services design and development experience
• Experience in cross platform (mobile/web) optimizing, profiling, and debugging
• Strong UI/UX Design experience across mobile and web
• Proficient in two or more of Java, JavaScript, Python, Scala, C#/.Net and React or Angular
• Containerized software applications, platforms, and tools including Kubernetes, Docker
• Good understanding of software development best practices, devops, CI/CD
• Experience working in an agile/scrum environment

People Skills:

• Demonstrated (show us) technical acumen, your technical decisions, and knowledge of distributed, event driven applications and rich user experiences
• Highly collaborative work style with strong listening and communications skills

What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications):

• Advanced degree in a technical discipline
• Development experience with VR frameworks such as Unity, Unreal Engine
• Experience with data streaming technologies such as Akka, MQTT, Pulsar, Kafka, Azure Event Hubs
• Varied integration experience with RPC, REST, GRPC
• Experience/knowledge of Azure and Azure Resources or other SAAS/PAAS platforms
• Team leadership and architecture experience
• Knowledge of stateless, functional models for system development
• Knowledge of data serialization techniques and libraries such as Avro, Google protocol buffers
• Advanced knowledge of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
• Passion for Motorsports and working in a high-pace environment

GM DOES NOT PROVIDE IMMIGRATION-RELATED SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE. PLEASE DO NOT APPLY FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU WILL NEED GM IMMIGRATION SPON