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Software Engineer, Simulation Scalability - Sim RIM (Release and Incident Management) Focus

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Hybrid
Mountain View, CA
153K-234K Annually
Entry level
Hybrid
Mountain View, CA
153K-234K Annually
Entry level
Improve simulation release processes, quality strategies, scalability, reliability, and incident management. Build production-quality services, frameworks, and tooling; establish testing and release gates; diagnose systemic bottlenecks and failures; improve performance, monitoring, error attribution, and recovery. Collaborate with simulation, infrastructure, and platform teams to deliver organization-wide improvements in simulation quality, throughput, and operational readiness.
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About the Team
The Simulation Scalability team builds the core systems, frameworks, and workflows that ensure simulation runs reliably, efficiently, and at scale. We work across all simulation products and pipelines, addressing systemic issues, improving release quality, and strengthening the foundations that enable teams to iterate quickly and confidently.
Our work spans systems architecture, software engineering, release management, and quality strategy , with a mission to increase reliability, throughput, and operational excellence across the entire simulation ecosystem.
What You'll Do
Release Management & Quality Strategy
  • Lead improvements to the end-to-end simulation release process, ensuring it is predictable, well-defined, and continuously improving.

  • Define and drive the simulation-wide quality and test strategy, including shift-left testing, automated validation, and early-signal integration.

  • Strengthen release readiness criteria, quality gates, and verification workflows across multiple simulation teams.

  • Partner with product teams to reduce regressions, shorten validation cycles, and ensure higher-confidence releases.

Scalability, Reliability & Stability
  • Improve the performance, stability, and reliability of simulation frameworks and core tooling used at scale.

  • Identify systemic bottlenecks in the simulation stack and deliver architectural improvements that increase throughput and reduce operational friction.

  • Enhance simulation exit codes, error attribution, and debugging workflows to improve diagnosability and reduce wasted compute.

Operational Excellence
  • Establish and enforce best practices for simulation incident management, improving resilience, recovery time, and overall operational readiness.

  • Improve signals, metrics, and monitoring patterns that help teams identify release-related issues earlier and more accurately.

Cross-Functional Leadership
  • Collaborate closely with simulation feature teams, infrastructure groups, and platform stakeholders to align on scaling needs, test coverage gaps, and systemic quality improvements.

  • Work backward from organizational-level problems to design solutions that raise simulation quality and reliability across all workflows.

Who You Are
We're looking for engineers with depth in at least one of the following areas, and interest in growing across the rest:
1. Release Engineering & Quality Strategy
  • Experience improving release workflows, verification processes, or quality gates.

  • Ability to spot gaps in test coverage, validation workflows, or release signals and drive systemic improvements.

2. Systems & Solutions Architecture
  • Ability to analyze complex simulation or compute workflows and design scalable, maintainable solutions.

  • Skilled at identifying recurring failure patterns and eliminating systemic causes.

3. Software Development
  • Strong coding fundamentals with experience building production-quality services, frameworks, or tools.

  • Background improving reliability, performance, or developer experience in distributed systems.

We welcome candidates who bring strong expertise in one area and are eager to expand into the others.
Compensation
The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance with applicable state laws. The compensation may not be representative for positions located outside of New York, Colorado, California, or Washington.
  • The salary range for this role is $153,200 to $234,100. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.
  • Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.

Benefits
GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs. Benefit options include medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance programs, employee assistance program, GM vehicle discounts and more.
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 believe we all must make a choice every day - individually and collectively - to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.
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