Staff Technical Program Manager, Simulation

About the role

Simulation is a critical foundation for how GM develops, validates, and safely deploys its autonomous driving capabilities. 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.

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.

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.

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.

Pay

The salary range for this role is $159,400 - $245,000. Bonus potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.

Benefits

• 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 program: 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.

Schedule

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).