Senior Software Engineer - Aero Development (Motorsports)

Job Description

This role offers the following Work Appropriately strategy:

Hybrid: This position does not require an employee to be on-site full-time to perform most effectively. The employee’s role enables them to work at a GM facility or off-site as frequently as needed or desired. This position requires an employee to be onsite up to 3 times per week .

Locations: Concord, NC; Austin, TX; or Roswell, GA

Team Overview:

GM’s Motorsports Software team analyzes, defines, and delivers next generation groundbreaking Motorsports IT software solutions. Using both innovative cloud-based infrastructure and software development standards, these solutions enable innovative interactions between GM Global Engineering, GM Motorsports, and our Race teams that accelerate our drivers to the finish line first! Our combined team of analysts, architects, developers, data engineers, testers, and project managers work with GM Motorsports Engineering and Race teams to ensure podium wins for GM’s NASCAR, IndyCar, and IMSA sportscar teams!

Job Summary:

This newly formed position is a Senior Software Developer position to support development of a new Software team focused on Aero & Computational Fluid Dynamics. For this role you will be expected to have progressive, demonstrated success in software development experience developing applications using a variety of tools, languages, frameworks, and technologies. As a world-class competition organization, a demonstrated interest in and/or direct participation in Motorsport is an important qualification for candidates.

Responsibilities:

• Implement and maintain GM Motorsports aero-thermal applications including CFD model construction, visualization, and analysis using immersive VR platforms such as Unity.
• Scrum story delivery
• Playbooks, implementation architectures, interfaces, build frameworks, code, testing, deployment for your story
• Participation in solution architectures
• Working with other members to collaborate, support, and otherwise work together
• Be reliable and self-managed in the delivery of your part of the total solution

Required Qualifications:

• At least 7 years software development experience
• 5 years hands-on full stack development experience
• 2 years hands-on web services design and development experience
• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Aerospace, Mechanical Engineering, or relevant technical discipline
• Demonstrated (show us) your technical acumen, your technical decisions, and knowledge of distributed, event driven applications and rich user experiences
• Experience in cross platform (mobile/web) optimizing, profiling, and debugging
• Strong UI/UX Design experience across mobile and web
• Proficient in two or more of Java, JavaScript, Python, Scala, C#/.Net and React or Angular
• Containerized software applications, platforms, and tools including Kubernetes, Docker
• Good understanding of software development best practices, devops, CI/CD
• Experience working in an agile/scrum environment
• Highly collaborative work style with strong listening and communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in a technical discipline.
• Development experience with VR frameworks such as Unity, Unreal Engine.
• Experience with data streaming technologies such as Akka, MQTT, Pulsar, Kafka, Azure Event Hubs
• Varied integration experience with RPC, REST, GRPC.
• Experience/knowledge of Azure and Azure Resources or other SAAS/PAAS platforms
• Team leadership and architecture experience
• Knowledge of stateless, functional models for system development
• Knowledge of data serialization techniques and libraries such as Avro, Google protocol buffers
• Advanced knowledge of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
• Passion for Motorsports and working in a high-pace environment