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Staff software engineer - aero platform (motorsports)

Cambridge
JR United Kingdom
Software engineer
€80,000 - €100,000 a year
Posted: 23h ago
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04.06.2025


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Job Description:

Job Description

Workplace Classification:

Hybrid:This position does not require an employee to be on-site full-time to perform most effectively. This position requires an employee to be onsite up to 3 times per week at either our Charlotte or Austin Technical Centers.

The Team:

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!

The Role:

The Staff Software Engineer will serve in a dual role of providing technical leadership as well as software delivery. This is an experienced position requiring an expert level technical foundation, significant hands-on contributions to projects, leading in the development of solution architectures, and broad exposure to scalable systems development in the cloud. As a Lead Software Engineer, you will have the opportunity to apply your experience and training to shape, then apply your vision in building Motorsports software. At GM Motorsports, we build systems to provide our teams with a competitive advantage on race day then apply those learnings toward production vehicle development. This is a highly visible role focused on aerodynamics systems design.

What You'll Do (Responsibilities):

* Lead a team of developers to implement and maintain GM Motorsports aero-thermal applications including CFD model construction, visualization, and analysis. Create pluggable systems that are orchestrated by the platform.
* Solution architectures, lead the team in "how", gain consensus.
* Focus on modern application design, code quality, modular frameworks that integrate loosely connected systems.
* Work across the aerodynamics team at GM Motorsports to identify value gaps and fill them with intuitive solutions
* Resolve technical blockers for the team. Pave the path for smooth delivery milestones through your leadership.
* Scrum story delivery for individual contributions.
* Playbooks, implementation architectures, interfaces, build frameworks, code, testing, deployment for your story.
* 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.

Additional Job Description

What You'll Need (Required Qualifications):

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or other relevant technical discipline
* Hands-on experience to expert level in one or more of the following: computational fluid dynamics (CFD) systems, microservices, data streaming platforms.
* Deep experience with designing and building full stack applications
* Experience building applications with cloud platforms and services (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc)
* 5+ years' experience specifically with microservices development
* 2+ years hands-on web services design and development experience
* 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

People Skills:

* Experience working in a professional environment requiring the ability to think critically, sort and separate user preferences from hard requirements. Ability to create solutions with little intervention within a fast-paced highly responsive team.
* Demonstrated (show us) technical acumen, your technical decisions, and knowledge of distributed, event driven applications and rich user experiences
* Highly collaborative work style with strong listening and communications skills

What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications):

* Masters degree in a technical discipline
* Exposure to aerodynamics engineering
* Advanced knowledge of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
* Development experience with VR frameworks such as Unity, Unreal Engine
* Experience with data streaming technologies such as Akka/Pekko, 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
* Experience in cross platform (mobile/web) optimizing, profiling, and debugging
* Strong UI/UX Design experience across mobile and web
* 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
* Passion for Motorsports and working in a high-pace environment

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.

•This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.

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About GM

Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.

Why Join Us

We believe we all must make a choice every day – individually and collectively – to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.

Benefits Overview

From day one, we're looking out for your well-being–at work and at home–so you can focus on realizing your ambitions. Learn how GM supports a rewarding career that rewards you personally by visiting Total Rewards Resources.

Non-Discrimination and Equal Employment Opportunities (U.S.)

General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of unlawful discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that providing an inclusive workplace creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers.

All employment decisions are made on a non-discriminatory basis without regard to sex, race, color, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, pregnancy or maternity status, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran or protected veteran, or any other similarly protected status in accordance with federal, state and local laws.

We encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications for each role and apply for any positions that match their skills and capabilities. Applicants in the recruitment process may be required, where applicable, to successfully complete a role-related assessment(s) and/or a pre-employment screening prior to beginning employment. To learn more, visit How we Hire.

Accommodations

General Motors offers opportunities to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email us or call us at 800-865-7580. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.

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