Senior Systems Engineer – Production Monitoring and Control (PMC)

Job Description

Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to the Austin Innovation Center or the Michigan IT Innovation Center three times per week, at minimum, or other frequency dictated by the business.

The Team

Our Manufacturing Systems Engineering team supports the creation, modernization, and enhancement of some of the industry’s most innovative and complex plant floor monitoring and control systems. This team designs, integrates, and supports PMC and related applications for GM Manufacturing business partners.

Team members include industry-leading systems engineers, developers, and architects who use modern engineering practices and technologies to:

• Deliver robust production monitoring and control capabilities

• Modernize Windows Server, SQL Server, and GE CIMPLICITY-based systems

• Improve reliability, scalability, and supportability across GM plants

The Role

The Senior Systems Engineer is responsible for the design, integration, modernization, and support of applications and infrastructure used for Plant Floor Monitoring & Control at GM Manufacturing plants.

The person in this role must have strong business and technical acumen to understand complex manufacturing systems; evaluate, identify, recommend, and implement solutions that:

• Improve current PMC and related application implementations

• Leverage and modernize Windows Server, SQL Server, and GE CIMPLICITY platforms

• Integrate COTS and custom solutions to deliver business value and operational stability

For this role, you are expected to have demonstrated success in systems and software project delivery, including leading technical efforts modernizing and supporting applications and environments using a variety of tools, languages, frameworks, and technologies.

What You'll Do (Responsibilities)

• Design, integrate, and support applications and systems for Plant Floor Monitoring & Control in GM Manufacturing.

• Lead modernization of the underlying PMC tech stack across Windows Server, SQL Server, and GE CIMPLICITY, including upgrades, refactoring, standardization, and lifecycle management.

• Plan and execute environment buildouts, migrations, and validations for PMC and related systems (test, pre‑prod, and production).

• Build and maintain GitHub Actions and CI/CD pipelines to automate build, test, deployment, and configuration processes for PMC applications and supporting services.

• Collaborate on environment management, configuration management, and automation efforts to improve reliability and repeatability of deployments.

• Partner with reporting and data teams to support data integration, operational reporting, and visualization solutions using SQL Server and related technologies.

• Develop and maintain SQL Server databases, including schema design, performance tuning, stored procedures, and views used by PMC and reporting applications.

• Configure, integrate, and support GE CIMPLICITY-based solutions as part of the PMC ecosystem, including interfaces to plant floor and upstream/downstream systems.

• Implement monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions to improve observability and incident response for PMC environments.

• Troubleshoot and resolve system and software issues across both new and legacy systems, including Windows Server, SQL Server, and GE CIMPLICITY.

• Participate in on-call production support and be available during off-hours or holidays for planned manufacturing downtime and critical incidents.

• Mentor junior engineers and developers, and contribute to clear technical and operational documentation (runbooks, design docs, standards).

• Ensure compliance with GM standards and best practices, including security, change management, and architecture guidelines.

Additional Job Description

What You'll Need (Required Qualifications)

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field (required)

• 8+ years of professional experience in systems engineering and/or software engineering supporting production systems (required)

• 5+ years of experience with Windows-based application stacks, including one or more of the following (required):

  • .NET / C# application development or integration

  • Windows Server admi