Staff Technical Program Manager, Simulation

Description

At General Motors, we are building the future of autonomous driving. Simulation is a critical foundation for how we develop, validate, and safely deploy our AV capabilities.

The Role

We are seeking a Staff Technical Program Manager to lead simulation health, validation, and incident/SEV operations for GM’s enterprise Autonomous Driving Program. You will own the core operational rhythms around simulation reliability (weekly health/ops reviews, SEVs, retros, and Close the Loop), ensuring issues are surfaced quickly, routed correctly, and driven to resolution.

What You’ll Do (Responsibilities):

Own weekly Simulation Validation Ops and Sim Ops Health reviews: ensure docs are ready, the right ticket owners attend, statuses are up to date, and P0s are resolved or have clear mitigation.

Track all active Simulation SEVs and incidents, maintain a central status view, and drive incidents from detection through mitigation and resolution with a focus on reducing sim error rates.

Run and improve the Sim post-mortem / retro process: maintain the schedule, ensure retros use the standard template, convert follow‑ups into Sim CTL Jira items, and track to closure.

Partner with SEO and engineering on the Close the Loop process: ensure complete, high‑quality Jira ticket creation, accurate routing, and live tracking of issue resolution.

Define and maintain KPIs and dashboards for simulation health, SEV/retro follow‑through, and CTL progress, and regularly communicate status and risks to stakeholders and leadership.

Yours Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications):

10+ years of technical program management experience, including 2+ years in quality, AI/ML, robotics, autonomous systems, or large-scale platform/reliability programs.

BS or MS in Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field.

Proven experience running SEV/incident, reliability, or ops review processes across multiple engineering teams.

Strong systems thinking, data‑driven decision making, and ability to connect metrics and SLAs to day‑to‑day execution.

Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; comfortable influencing across engineering, data, and operations.

Deep familiarity with Agile delivery, Jira, Confluence, and technical development workflows.

What Can Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications):

Experience in autonomous vehicles, robotaxis, or other safety‑critical, requirements‑driven domains (e.g., automotive, aerospace, defense).

Background in simulation or test infrastructure, and scaling test creation and health monitoring.

Experience partnering with metrics/SEO teams on error investigation and close‑the‑loop processes.

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 actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position, as well as geography of the selected candidate.

The salary range for this role is $159,400 - $245,000. 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.

Company Vehicle: Upon successful completion of a motor vehicle report review, you will be eligible to participate in a company vehicle evaluation program, through which you will be assigned a General Motors vehicle to drive and evaluate. Note: program participants are required to purchase/lease a qualifying GM vehicle every four years unless one of a limited number of exceptions applies.

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This role is based remotely, but if the selected candidate lives within a specific mile radius of a GM hub, they will be expected to report to the location three times a week {or other frequency dictated by your manager}.

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