Senior Software Engineer - Scrum Manager

Job Description

Work Arrangement:

Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Milford, MI three times a week, at minimum.

What You'll Do:

As part of an Agile team, you will contribute to the development of embedded automotive control systems. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Refining, updating, and prioritizing the Team Backlog by collaborating with the Product Management Team, customers, and stakeholders to manage control and diagnostic systems within the thermal scope.

• Serving as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the Thermal Agile Team’s content.

• Translating the product and feature strategy for thermal controls and diagnostic algorithms into user stories. This includes assisting the team with story definition, identifying exploration enablers, estimating stories, and sequencing for Program Increment and iteration planning.

• Coordinating dependencies with other Scrum Managers when deliverables rely on cross-team collaboration for completion.

• Collaborating with Scrum teams on a day-to-day basis to clarify requirements, address roadblocks, and facilitate alignment around product or feature strategy.

• Accepting user stories and actively participating in team demos and retrospectives to validate quality, providing feedback, and driving continuous process improvements.

• Engaging with System and Software Architects to understand and implement Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) requirements, supporting the migration of hand-coded designs into the scrum team’s work.

• Working with Scrum Leaders, System Engineers, Testers, and Developers to create a solution for GM's next-generation electric vehicles using methodologies such as Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) and Test-Driven Development (TDD).

• Developing and integrating software using MATLAB Simulink models, following modeling, software, and auto-coding best practices, or hand-coding in C, with flexibility in implementation methods.

• Leveraging GM’s virtual systems to verify and validate system behaviors and performance.

• Actively participating in Agile team activities and ceremonies as required.

Additional Job Description

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications):

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Mechatronics, Software, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent experience

• Experience with writing and debugging C/C++, Python code and MATLAB Simulink/Stateflow

• Minimum 5+ years of embedded software development

• Minimum 2+ years of experience leading a team

• Experience with developing embedded software architecture.

• Experience with software configuration management processes and tools 

• Development / testing experience on SIL/HIL or other virtual environments

• Good oral and written communication skills, and high level of interpersonal skills to work effectively in a geographically dispersed team

• Ability to manage time and meet deliverable timing is critical.

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

• Master's degree in computer science, Mechatronics, Software, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent experience

• Minimum 8+ years of embedded software development experience

• Experience to Behavior Driven Development and Test-Driven Development

• Knowledgeable with software configuration management processes and tools

• Knowledgeable in Thermal Management control algorithm designs and diagnostic strategy

• Prior experience working in Jira, Agile Framework is an asset.

About GM

Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.

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.

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