Technical Specialist - Thermal System Innovation - General Motors (GM)

Job Description

At General Motors, our product teams are redefining mobility. Through a human-centered design process, we create vehicles and experiences that are designed not just to be seen, but to be felt. We’re turning today’s impossible into tomorrow’s standard —from breakthrough hardware and battery systems to intuitive design, intelligent software, and next-generation safety and entertainment features.

Every day, our products move millions of people as we aim to make driving safer, smarter, and more connected, shaping the future of transportation on a global scale.

The Role

Technical Specialist - Thermal System Innovation

The Thermal System Innovation Technical Specialist is recognized as a subject matter expert in thermal system innovation, strategy development, and future roadmap creation. This role is responsible for defining, maturing, and driving the thermal innovation roadmap across key cross-functional partners including Design Studio, Software and Services, Research and Development, advanced engineering, and other strategic groups. In this role, you will identify where General Motors should lead, translate emerging opportunities into actionable plans, and help ensure thermal innovation is connected to practical product and technology execution.

The ideal candidate brings strong technical depth in automotive thermal systems along with a demonstrated ability to work across organizations to shape direction, influence priorities, and create momentum. This person must be highly motivated, forward-looking, and energized by building what is next. They must be comfortable operating in ambiguity, connecting customer needs and competitive insights to engineering opportunities, and helping teams move from concept to useful strategy, tools, and implementation paths.

This role requires close collaboration with groups that are critical to future thermal leadership, including Design Studio, Software and Services, Research and Development, systems teams, and other partners influencing vehicle concepts, customer experience, and digital capability. A key part of the role is identifying where artificial intelligence and related digital methods can improve engineering productivity, concept development, analysis workflows, benchmarking, and decision quality, then partnering with others to develop and apply those tools effectively.