Senior Electrical Design Automation Engineer at General Motors in Warren, Michigan, United States of America

Job description

• Job Description
• We are seeking a Senior Electrical Design Automation Engineer to lead the integration, extension, and automation of Siemens Capital and related electrical-engineering toolchains. This role combines electrical architecture expertise with software-development discipline to create plugins, APIs, services, workflows, and AI agents that improve design quality, accelerate release, and maintain traceability from logical connectivity through physical implementation and manufacturing documentation.
• A key focus will be converting existing PSDS and electrical-engineering processes into intelligent AI-agent workflows that reduce manual effort, scale engineering expertise, and transform design, problem resolution, validation, and release activities.
• The successful candidate will work across electrical engineering, software engineering, manufacturing, PLM, IT, suppliers, and engineering-tool vendors. They will own solutions from requirements and architecture through implementation, validation, deployment, adoption, and support.

Responsibilities

• Capital integration and toolchain ownership
• Architect integrations across Siemens Capital Logic, Capital Harness, Capital Topology, Capital Integrator, Capital Platform Designer, and adjacent systems
• Define data models, interfaces, mappings, and transformation rules across logical, physical, 3D, PLM, requirements, and manufacturing representations
• Evaluate Capital capabilities, identify gaps, and recommend configuration, customization, plugin, or service-based solutions
• Establish reusable integration patterns, coding standards, versioning practices, and deployment methods
• Partner with vendors and internal platform teams to resolve issues and influence product roadmaps
• Plugin, API, and automation development
• Design, develop, test, document, and support plugins, APIs, connectors, scripts, and services for electrical design workflows
• Automate model creation, connectivity checks, design-rule validation, drawing generation, bill-of-material extraction, reporting, and release preparation
• Build reliable import, export, comparison, and validation pipelines to identify missing data, invalid connectivity, inconsistencies, and release defects
• Apply software-engineering practices including source control, code review, automated testing, logging, error handling, and configuration management
• Support CI/CD where appropriate for engineering applications and automation services
• AI tools for PSDS within VSEE
• Develop, deploy, and maintain AI agents and AI-enabled tools for the Power and Signal Distribution Systems (PSDS) organization within VSEE
• Convert existing PSDS engineering, design-release, quality, and knowledge-management processes into secure, usable, and maintainable AI workflows
• Integrate AI tools with engineering data and systems while preserving data quality, access controls, traceability, and engineering accountability
• Electrical engineering and system integration
• Apply knowledge of electrical architecture, wiring systems, power and signal distribution, grounding, shielding, connectors, terminals, splices, and communication networks
• Maintain traceability from requirements and logical connectivity through physical routing, drawings, bills of material, manufacturing outputs, verification, and change management
• Participate in design reviews, root-cause analysis, tool validation, process definition, and release-readiness assessments

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Computer, Software, Systems, Mechanical, Automotive, or related engineering field, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of experience in electrical design, harness engineering, engineering software, design automation, or systems integration
• Experience developing software, scripts, plugins, APIs, or automated engineering workflows
• Experience with Siemens Capital or a comparable ECAD, MCAD, harness, PLM, or engineering-design platform
• Proficiency in Python, C#, C++, Java, JavaScript, VBA, or a comparable language
• Experience with JSON, XML, SQL, REST APIs, file-based interfaces, data mapping, or message-based communication
• Ability to understand electrical connectivity, engineering models, design constraints, and downstream manufacturing requirements
• Ability to lead technical work, communicate across functions, and deliver maintainable solutions
• Master's degree in Electrical, Computer, Software, Systems, Mechanical, Automotive, or related engineering field, or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of experience in electrical design, harness engineering, engineering software, design automation, or systems integration
• Direct experience with Capital Logic, Capital Harness, Capital Topology, Capital Integrator, or Capital Platform Designer
• Experience integrating Capital with CATIA, NX, Creo, Zuken E3, Altium, PLM, requirements, manufacturing, or enterprise data systems
• Experience with design-rule checking, harness topology, 2D drawing automation, 3D routing, bill-of-material generation, or configuration management
• Experience developing, integrating, validating, or supporting AI/ML tools for engineering, manufacturing, quality, or enterprise workflows
• Experience applying AI to PSDS, VSEE, wiring, electrical architecture, problem resolution, engineering knowledge, or design-release processes
• Experience with Git, CI/CD, automated testing, containerization, Linux, cloud services, or DevOps practices
• Knowledge of vehicle electrical architecture, low-voltage or high-voltage systems, CAN, LIN, Ethernet, diagnostics, EMI/EMC, or signal integrity
• Experience with MBSE, requirements traceability, digital-thread concepts, or systems-engineering workflows
• Experience working with engineering-tool vendors, suppliers, manufacturing teams, or global development organizations

Skills

Required

• Ability to lead technical work
• Communicate across functions
• Deliver maintainable solutions
• Systems thinking
• Technical problem solving
• Cross-functional communication
• Technical leadership and mentoring
• Python
• C#
• C++
• Java
• JavaScript

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.
• This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location at least 3 times a week {or other frequency dictated by their manager}.
• The selected candidate will be required to travel <25% for this role.