Motorsports Full-Vehicle Test Cell Leader

Job Description At GM Motorsports, we are driven by a clear purpose: to accelerate our teams’ ability to win on the racetrack and in the marketplace. Our vision is to be the benchmark of global motorsports excellence, inspiring enduring passion for our brands and products through world-class performance, innovation, and teamwork. We are looking for people who share our mindset and core values — ownership in organizational success, a commitment to add value to our team, and the courage to reject mediocrity in pursuit of exceptional results. The Role GM Motorsports is seeking an experienced engineering leader for the Charlotte Technical Center full-vehicle test cell and its connected simulation capabilities. This people leader role will lead a focused team of highly technical personnel and establish the strategy, talent, processes, and technology needed to deliver safe, reliable, and high-value testing for Motorsports programs, race team partners and GM production groups. Alongside its core test-cell responsibilities, the role will help advance a connected development capability linking powertrain and full-vehicle dynamometers with driver-in-the-loop simulation, real-time models, controls, and analysis. This capability will support faster calibration, improved correlation, and more efficient use of limited track testing time. What You’ll Do Lead the Organization • Lead, develop, retain, and hold accountable a high-performing team of dyno and simulation specialists. • Set priorities, staffing plans, performance expectations, and development goals aligned with Motorsports and future propulsion needs. • Build a culture of safety, ownership, innovation, technical excellence, inclusion, and continuous improvement. • Transfer relevant Motorsports technologies and capabilities to GM production-vehicle development organizations. Own the Test-Cell Capability • Own the performance, reliability, capability roadmap, and operating model of the full-vehicle test cell. • Lead the use and continued advancement of powertrain and full-vehicle dynamometer systems supporting ICE, hybrid, and EV programs. • Maintain effective interfaces among dyno systems, instrumentation, controls, data acquisition, automation, and supporting simulation tools. • Improve test-cell methods, safeguards, documentation, and standard work to increase repeatability, data quality, and customer value. • Represent the organization in capital planning, equipment selection, facility development, commissioning, and operating-model decisions. Integrate Programs and Partners • Serve as the technical integrator across race-program propulsion systems and related Motorsports engineering functions. • Align vehicle dynamics, propulsion, controls, calibration, integration, instrumentation, data engineering, facilities, safety, procurement, suppliers, and race team partners. • Translate technical complexity into clear development strategies, business value, decisions, risks, and trade-offs. • Establish model-correlation, validation, signal, and test standards across connected development environments. Direct Test Strategy and Execution • Plan and prioritize full-vehicle and powertrain dynamometer testing across programs, customers, staffing, resources, and facility constraints. • Lead test-plan development, vehicle and equipment readiness reviews, installation and instrumentation coordination, test execution, session closeout, and issue resolution. • Establish consistent operating procedures and test methods that deliver safe, repeatable, high-quality data. • Coordinate staffing, shift coverage, customer requirements, materials, and facility availability to support planned and emergent testing. • Review test results, anomalies, equipment status, and data quality; com