Scrum Manager (Automotive Hardware Optimization)

Location: Warren, Michigan, United States; hybrid attendance at the designated location at least 3 times per week; travel required up to 25%; relocation benefits are available for qualifying candidates.

Company

hirify.global develops automotive products spanning hardware, battery systems, software, safety, entertainment, and connected mobility.

What you will do

• Own and prioritize the Scrum Team backlog for hardware optimization and co-optimization capabilities across the assigned domain.
• Define problems, desired outcomes, value hypotheses, acceptance criteria, and executable Stories from ART Features, capabilities, and technical enablers.
• Coordinate team capacity, sequencing, commitments, multi-sprint delivery, and program milestones.
• Partner with hardware and system architects, development leads, modelers, validation engineers, suppliers, and ART leadership to ensure technical feasibility and integration readiness.
• Manage cross-team dependencies involving models, interfaces, requirements, environments, test support, data, suppliers, and software or hardware baselines.
• Maintain Jira as the system of record and support System Demos, Inspect and Adapt events, inclusive decision-making, conflict resolution, continuous learning, and repeatable processes for CoSIM, virtual validation, parameter definition, optimization studies, and engineering evidence.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, systems engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• At least 3 years of relevant experience in engineering, technical product ownership, Agile delivery, systems engineering, controls, simulation, or program execution.
• Experience owning and prioritizing a technical backlog across multiple sprints or releases.
• Ability to write or guide clear, testable Stories, acceptance criteria, and Definition-of-Done expectations.
• Working knowledge of Scrum and/or SAFe practices, including backlog refinement, iteration planning, PI Planning, retrospectives, System Demos, and risk or dependency management.
• Experience using Jira or a comparable work-management tool to maintain backlog, status, dependencies, and delivery visibility.
• Understanding of hardware/software integration, systems engineering, requirements capture, and validation or testing practices.
• Strong analytical judgment, prioritization, written and verbal communication, cross-functional influence without direct authority, and the ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining quality, timing, stakeholder alignment, and delivery risk awareness.
• Willingness to work in a hybrid environment and collaborate across geographically distributed teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with hardware optimization, CoSIM, SIL, vECU development, virtual validation, MDAO, MBSE, model-based definitions, Virtual Model requirements, SimBOM, or digital-thread practices.
• Experience translating hardware-dominated functions, performance objectives, constraints, design variables, or model requirements into executable engineering work.
• Experience coordinating work across hardware, software, controls, systems, calibration, validation, suppliers, and vehicle program teams.
• Experience supporting an Agile Release Train, Scrum of Scrums, ART-level dependency management, or similar cross-team execution model.
• Experience defining or reviewing optimization studies, design-space exploration, model credibility, test evidence, or engineering decision records.
• Experience with automotive development, embedded controls, vehicle systems, electrification, propulsion, chassis, body, battery, thermal, or other vehicle-domain engineering.
• SAFe, Scrum, Product Owner, Agile coaching, systems engineering, or project/program management certification.
• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, Git, MATLAB/Simulink, Python, Cameo/SysML, or equivalent engineering tools and data sources.
• Experience leading process improvement, technical onboarding, or capability development in an ambiguous or emerging organization.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement with regular onsite collaboration in Warren.
• Opportunity to work across hardware, software, systems engineering, simulation, validation, suppliers, and vehicle program teams.
• Relocation benefits are available for candidates who qualify under company policy.
• hirify.global provides employee benefits and promotes inclusion, belonging, and equal employment opportunity.

Hiring process

• Applicants may be required to complete role-related assessments and pre-employment screening where applicable.
• GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role, including H-1B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, or other immigration support.