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Senior Application Packaging & Modernization Engineer
General Motors Company · 🇺🇸 Warren, Michigan, United States of America
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One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 606 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 267 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What General Motors Company paid sponsored hires in similar roles171 certified filings for “Senior Software Engineer” (Software Developers) in MI: $140k–$163k, median $150k. Most were filed at wage level IV (74%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Last confirmed live 1 day agoWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 606 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 267 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Job Description The Role The Senior Application Packaging & Modernization Engineer is responsible for defining, building, and continuously improving how General Motors packages, tests, deploys, updates, and maintains end-user applications across the enterprise. This role will optimize GM’s current application distribution capabilities, which include SCCM/Configuration Manager, Microsoft Intune, and JAMF , while evaluating and adopting newer, more modern software distribution tools and technologies. The engineer will identify opportunities to further automate and streamline packaging, improve scalability, reduce manual effort, accelerate application onboarding and updates, and support release cycles ranging from multiple deployments per week to periodic quarterly releases. The Senior Application Packaging & Modernization Engineer partners closely with endpoint engineering, platform teams, security, infrastructure, service operations, and application owners to assess emerging solutions and determine where they can complement or improve existing capabilities. Through continuous modernization, automation, and process improvement, this role will increase deployment speed, reduce operational overhead and end-user disruption, and deliver a more reliable and consistent application experience across the enterprise. is responsible for defining, building, and continuously improving how General Motors packages, tests, deploys, updates, and maintains end user applications across the enterprise. This role helps shape the engineering practices and operational execution required to modernize a well-established application packaging and deployment process across Windows, macOS, Linux, and other managed endpoint environments. You will evolve this process into a more agile, technology-enabled model that leverages modern tools and best practices to reduce manual work, improve turnaround time, and support release cycles ranging from multiple updates per week to periodic quarterly releases, while continuously refining the existing guardrails for how applications are packaged, validated, deployed, monitored, and updated — including standards for silent installs, detection logic, rollback planning, dependency management, deployment rings, user notifications, and success measurement. This role partners closely with endpoint engineering, platform teams, security, infrastructure, service operations, and application owners to translate packaging and deployment requirements into scalable engineering processes, automation, and reliable service delivery. What You’ll Do • Own the application packaging and deployment engineering strategy as part of the broader End User Engineering mission • Reshape and redesign the application packaging process into a modern, agile model that leverages newer technologies, automation, and reusable patterns to deliver packages faster with less manual effort • Simplify packaging approaches for software with limited customization requirements by driving more standardized, repeatable, and low-touch delivery patterns • Package, test, and maintain enterprise applications for deployment across modern endpoint management platforms including SCCM, Intune, JAMF , and similar tooling • Design and operate deployment campaigns that support release cadences ranging from multiple times per week to a few times per year with minimal to no disruption to end users • Build and maintain packaging standards for application installation, configuration, updates, patching, uninstall, rollback, and remediation • Develop silent install packages, detection methods, dependency handling, pre-flight checks, post-install validation, and user communication patterns • Create phased deployment strategies using pilot groups, ring-b