Staff Technology Manager - Mechatronics Platform

About the role

We are seeking a dynamic, experienced individual to join the Core Technology team at General Motors as a Staff Technology Manager for Mechatronics, with a strong focus on technology vision strategy development, and stakeholder development within complex global environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop strategic vision for Mechatronics technology to optimize vehicle and system level performance and enhance key performance indicators (KPIs)

• Drive technology initiatives/PRDs across the organization

• Develop next-generation electrical architecture strategies

• Conduct market research, competitor benchmarking, new technology investigations, and competitive analysis to identify market opportunities, performance improvement opportunities, and potential threats

• Determine new technology needs and drive new technology development, leveraging suppliers, R&D, and engineering resources to determine recommended insertion and enterprise impacts

• Change control technology requirements, including customer stories, customer use cases, business cases, and backlog prioritization

• Develop business cases for new technology insertion and new strategies, present to senior leadership for alignment

• Define, document, and track key metrics using KPIs to measure technology success and usage, and inform future decisions

• Monitor product health of deployed mechatronics technology and identify areas for improvement

• Communicate technology updates, progress, and plan to stakeholders across the organization, including executives, customers, and partners

• Develop rollout strategies for complex infrastructure capabilities spanning hardware variants, model years, electrical architectures, and suppliers

• Assess impact of implementation, deployment, and maintenance complexity across variants and strategic impacts on new and proposed strategies

• Drive Make vs Buy analyses to support in-house hardware and software design strategy

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure technology goals and priorities alignment

Requirements

• 7+ years real-time embedded software development experience, including 2+ years standing up new infrastructure capabilities and 2+ years developing new mechatronic technologies

• Strong communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to articulate complex concepts to stakeholders at all levels of the company; the ability to effectively balance and integrate vision, strategy, and technical details into a cohesive narrative; and the ability to lead complex tradeoff analyses and gain stakeholder alignment

• Proven experience driving cross-functional projects with diverse organizations, teams, and people to drive objectives and processes in high-pressure, fast-paced development environment

• Ability to manage multiple and significantly complex projects and assignments with high level of autonomy and accountability for results; capability to analyze and resolve broad and complex technical problems where guidance or precedent is not available

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of embedded hardware, system, software development

• Experience in Electrical & Electronic architecture optimization for Software-defined Vehicles

• Comprehensive understanding of the software and hardware architecture associated with major vehicle features, including chassis systems, body systems, propulsion systems, active safety and autonomous vehicle systems, low-voltage energy management and signal distribution systems, and support for infotainment and connectivity systems

• Experience implementing systems or features on multiple HW variants, vehicle architectures, or electrical architectures

• Experience designing systems or software for features with high safety or cybersecurity requirements, or migrating features and systems with stringent requirements to new architectures and allocations

• Application of Safety ISO 26262 principles such as hazard analysis and risk assessment, safety concept development

• 5+ years ECU integration experience (application software, infrastructure, ECU hardware)

• 5+ years experience working on mechatronic infrastructure technologies such as MCUs, Board Support packages, Basic Software, infrastructure system requirements, and embedded OS software

• 5+ years experience standing up new mechatronic infrastructure functionality (ECUs, microcontrollers, communication protocols, functions, electrical architectures, ECU device classes)

• 3+ years of semiconductor-related experience, including MCU, ASIC, transceiver, switch development

• 2+ years real-time software architecture experience (Classic AUTOSAR or similar)

• Vehicle launch management experience. Knowledge of product design and development cycles – Global Vehicle Development Process (GVDP) and Global Software Development Process (GSDP)

• Previous responsibilities collecting customer feedback and leading product improvement to enhance customer and/or user community experience

• Master’s degree in Engineering and/or Business Administration