Software Engineer – HIL Battery & Propulsion Simulation and Integration

General Motors

HIL Engineer at General Motors focusing on battery and propulsion simulation and integration. Collaborating with teams to enhance automotive software development and validation processes through simulation.

Posted 4/17/2026full-timeMilford • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Work closely with software development, calibration, and validation stakeholders to identify solutions to customer needs.
Create and maintain simulation models (such as Plant, sensors and actuators, serial data communication and controller models) for creating test environments.
Design HIL benches including harness design, power requirements integration of key ECMs.
Understanding of ISO SPI, CAN tools, INCA.
Understand and apply Agile principles that support DFSS tools and methodologies.
Close partnership with test environment users to root cause issues and address unexpected test results and resolve issues encountered during test execution.
Plan, communicate, and coordinate test environment strategy and model/hardware rollout to support applications and features requested by user community as needed.
Support HIL bench and automated tools.
Work closely with sources of models and equipment to make sure that common models and other simulation assets are shared between test environment domains and architectures.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Master’s degree in engineering (Mechatronics, Electrical, Software or Computer preferred)
Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Mechatronics, Electrical, Software or Computer)
3+ years of experience in design of models with real time simulation
3+ years of experience in HIL design, troubleshooting and integration
2+ years of experience in automotive engineering
1+ years of experience in applying DFSS tools and methodologies to solve problems.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

simulation modelsHIL designreal time simulationtroubleshootingintegrationDFSS toolsAgile principlesmodel designtest environment strategyserial data communication

Soft Skills

communicationcoordinationproblem-solvingcollaborationroot cause analysis

Certifications

Master’s degree in engineeringBachelor’s degree in engineering