Senior Engineering Manager Adaptive Bench Compute

Job Description

The Role

The Senior Manager Software Engineering for Adaptive Bench Compute leads the team that delivers scalable on-demand compute infrastructure for automotive test and simulation bench environments. This role owns the day-to-day technical direction roadmap execution reliability and customer enablement of a multi-site platform spanning bench orchestration scheduling identity inventory job execution observability and results management. The Senior manager translates test-program needs into durable platform capabilities establishes measurable operating outcomes and builds a high-performing team that can support expanding hardware-in-the-loop workloads across GM. Success requires strong technical judgment disciplined execution and the ability to align peer engineering teams around shared outcomes.

What Youll Do

• Lead and develop the approximately 15-person engineering organization across platform services infrastructure bench integration scheduling developer tooling and test enablement; establish the operating model to scale from a single-lab MVP to a multi-site operation with hundreds of benches running automation 24/7.

• Own capacity and investment planning across cloud hardware networking licensing observability and suppliers. Make transparent investment decisions for multi-location labs hosting millions of dollars in bench assets and define critical observability metrics; establish run-rate spend and cost-per-bench-hour baselines.

• Establish measurable targets for availability throughput latency utilization cost capacity and customer enablement and use data-driven diagnostics to drive continuous improvement.

• Own the multi-year roadmap and coordinate divisional stakeholders IT and Networking and lab operations to deliver capabilities beyond 500 benches including support for new physical variants and virtual scenarios.

• Direct end-to-end platform delivery across bench registration inventory scheduling job execution boot results artifacts APIs and developer tooling; ensure reliable operation across multiple sites and environments.

• Establish clear KSIs and KPIs measured and reviewed regularly covering onboarding automation throughput availability queue time bench utilization data capacity cost per bench-hour and support responsivenessand use them to drive significant business impact target millions in avoided manual-test costs and expedited software delivery.

• Set the technical and operational bar for a high-throughput platform handling thousands of daily workflows and terabytes of evidence with disciplined architecture security testing observability resilience capacity planning and production-readiness practices.

• Remove systemic blockers across network reachability site readiness identity bench capacity storage data movement and shared infrastructure; make timely tradeoffs across teams to keep delivery and operations moving.

• Recruit coach and retain engineers while building leadership depth succession and operating mechanisms that reduce reliance on individual heroics.

Cross-functional expectations

• IT and shared infrastructure: Partner with IT infrastructure cloud identity database security and platform-service owners to define requirements sequence dependencies resolve access/provisioning blockers and establish supportable operating models.

• Networking: Work with Networking and site teams on routing firewall proxy private reachability disconnected-bench behavior and multi-site connectivity.

• Peer engineering and platform teams: Align with teams on interfaces shared capabilities migrations release readiness and ownership boundaries.

• Test-program customers: Turn workload requirements into platform priorities onboarding plans measurable outcomes and transparent tradeoffs.

• Leadership and program governance: Provide concise status risk KPI capacity and investment recommendations to program leadership; ensure decisions owners sequencing and escalation paths are clear.

Your Skills and Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering Software Engineering or a related field or equivalent practical experience.

• 10 to 15 or more years of professional experience in software infrastructure platform engineering distributed systems or test automation.

• 7 years of experience leading managers of managers and developing software or infra engineering teams of 20 engineers.

• Experience owning a technical roadmap and delivering measurable outcomes for a platform product or shared service.

• Strong understanding of distributed systems service interfaces APIs data models workflow orchestration reliability and operational practices.

• Experience with cloud infrastructure CI/CD identity and access management secrets databases and observability.

• Ability to evaluate architecture and technical tradeoffs across application infrastructure networking security and physical-system boundaries.

• Demonstrated ability to communicate technical risks and recommendations to engineering program and executive audiences.

• Demonstrated people-leadership skills including hiring coaching performance management feedback workload planning and talent development.

• Ability to work effectively across multiple teams and locations in a highly interdependent engineering environment.

What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

• Experience with automotive software SDV ADAS robotics hardware-in-the-loop or physical test infrastructure.

• Experience influencing architecture across application networking security and physical-system boundaries.

• Experience building compute platforms test farms lab infrastructure resource schedulers or developer platforms.

• Experience with Go or comparable systems-programming language REST/OpenAPI services Postgres Nomad or Kubernetes Vault Entra ID GitHub Actions and artifact repositories.

• Experience with bench inventory device provisioning host bootstrapping hardware discovery or physical-network integration.

• Experience establishing service-level objectives platform KPIs cost/capacity models and customer-adoption measures.

• Experience leading multi-site or hybrid engineering teams and working with principal technical leaders.

• Experience migrating legacy or program-specific infrastructure into a standardized shared platform.

GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply for this role if you will need GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future. This includes direct company sponsorship entry of GM as the immigration employer of record on a government form and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g. H1-B OPT STEM OPT CPT TN J-1 etc). This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location at least 3 times a week or other frequency dictated by their manager. Relocation benefits are available for candidates who qualify under company policy.

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