Staff Software Engineer Embedded Software Platform

The Role:

General Motors is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to shape and scale the engineering platforms that build test integrate validate and deliver embedded software for software-defined vehicles. This role is for a hands-on technical leader who can turn ambiguous cross-team problems into durable architecture practical standards and measurable improvements in engineering effectiveness release confidence and product quality.

The successful candidate will lead a major capability across multiple teams influence technical direction beyond their immediate organization and connect software tooling infrastructure test and release activities into a coherent engineering system. The role may align to one or more of the four specialization areas below.

Expectations and Impact:

• Own the architecture technical roadmap and execution strategy for a significant platform capability or a set of related initiatives.

• Lead high-impact multi-team technical efforts from problem definition through adoption and operationalization.

• Establish reusable patterns standards quality controls and developer experiences that improve consistency and speed across teams.

• Make sound architectural decisions in complex embedded real-time cloud simulation test and release environments.

• Use engineering data and operational signals to prioritize improvements in reliability feedback time quality and developer productivity.

• Influence without relying on direct authority; align engineering validation cybersecurity cloud quality program and supplier stakeholders.

• Remain hands-on in the most difficult technical problems while enabling others through coaching mentoring documentation and technical leadership.

• Communicate tradeoffs risks progress and recommendations clearly to senior engineering and program leaders.

Specialization Areas:

1. Virtualization and CI infrastructure

Define and evolve the platform used to build test and deploy virtualized vehicle software across embedded simulation and cloud environments. Work may include enterprise CI/CD architecture GitOps delivery on Kubernetes Terraform and infrastructure-as-code patterns progressive delivery and rollback artifact flows security and compliance integration and observability for pipelines and simulation workloads.

Virtualization- specific basic qualifications

• Experience designing or delivering CI/CD platforms for embedded simulation or cloud workloads.

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes Terraform or comparable infrastructure-as-code practices and production cloud environments.

• Experience with embedded or simulation workflows such as vECUs SIL FMU or SSP.

• Ability to translate platform architecture into reusable automation standards and operational practices.

2. Continuous integration and quality gating

Architect traceable delivery flows that safely move software and related inputs from pull request through component system virtual physical and release validation. Work may include GitHub Enterprise workflows artifact promotion dependency and configuration management mainline protection tiered quality gates test-evidence policy embedded and vehicle-level compatibility checks release readiness and pipeline-health metrics.

CI-specific basic qualifications

• Experience architecting or implementing end-to-end CI/CD and quality-gating workflows for embedded software.

• Experience with GitHub Enterprise or comparable source-control and pipeline platforms artifact repositories and automated test evidence.

• Understanding embedded and vehicle-system integration across ECUs MCUs SoCs containers networks configuration or calibration.

• Experience incorporating static analysis security scanning coverage integration testing simulation or hardware-based validation into delivery controls.

3. Test-system modernization

Modernize large-scale embedded test systems so standardized headless automated testing can run repeatedly across virtual and physical environments. Work may include test execution architecture configuration and variation management change-impact analysis risk-based regression selection test-result schemas and APIs Databricks-enabled analytics diagnostics failure triage and integration with CI/CD test management and issue-management workflows.

Specialization-specific basic qualifications

• Experience architecting embedded test automation and build-to-test pipelines across virtual or physical environments.

• Experience with configuration and variation management change-impact analysis or risk-based regression testing.

• Experience modeling test results and integrating test execution with APIs analytics platforms such as Databricks diagnostics or issue-management workflows.

• Proficiency with engineering automation tools such as Linux Git Python Bash Robot Framework containers or infrastructure as code.

4. Build-system modernization

Modernize embedded build and test infrastructure by creating scalable reproducible secure and developer-friendly workflows. Work may include transitioning legacy Make or shell orchestration to Bazel developing reusable rules macros toolchains platforms and repository standards migrating firmware and generated code integrating build systems with CI/CD and release processes improving caching and parallelism and evaluating AI-assisted engineering workflows with measurable outcomes.

Build System-specific basic qualifications

• Experience building and maintaining production software systems with proficiency in Python and at least one additional engineering-tooling language.

• Experience in automotive embedded safety-related calibration or systems-engineering environments.

• Experience migrating Make or shell-based build orchestration to Bazel or a comparable scalable build system.

• Experience with embedded cross-compilation toolchains generated code firmware build reproducibility or CI/CD integration.

What Youll Do:

• Define target-state architecture phased roadmaps and implementation priorities for the assigned capability.

• Lead architecture reviews technical working sessions design decisions and cross-functional alignment.

• Identify manual handoffs duplicated work late integration points unreliable signals and other systemic sources of delay or quality escape.

• Deliver or guide production-quality software automation platform components and integrations.

• Create standards and reusable patterns that make the preferred engineering path the easiest path for product teams and suppliers.

• Establish clear ownership entry and exit criteria operational expectations and exception-management practices.

• Instrument the platform and use data to identify root causes guide investment and demonstrate measurable improvement.

• Partner with teams responsible for embedded software vehicle integration validation developer experience cloud cybersecurity artifact management and program delivery.

• Coach senior engineers and help grow technical leadership across the organization.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications):

• Bachelors degree in computer science computer engineering electrical engineering software engineering systems engineering or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.

• Typically 15 or more years of experience developing integrating deploying or validating software systems.

• Deep understanding of embedded and real-time software architecture and experience delivering high-quality safety-critical or otherwise mission-critical products.

• Demonstrated success leading complex technical initiatives across multiple teams or organizations.

• Strong problem-solving analytical communication and prioritization skills in an action-oriented environment.

• Production experience with engineering tools and systems; proficiency in Python and at least one additional language used in software or engineering-tooling environments.

• Experience in at least one of the four specialization areas described above with the ability to collaborate across the others.

• Experience with relevant technologies such as Linux Git containers CI/CD cloud platforms infrastructure as code test automation artifact repositories or data and API platforms as applicable to the selected specialization.

What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications):

• Experience in automotive aerospace defense industrial or another embedded real-time regulated or safety-critical environment.

• Knowledge of functional safety ISO 26262 cybersecurity engineering ASPICE MISRA AUTOSAR or related engineering practices.

• Experience with virtual and hardware-based validation including SIL CoSIM vECU HIL benches or system-level testing.

• Experience establishing platform products reusable templates developer self-service engineering standards or reliability objectives.

• Advanced degree in a related technical field.

Measures of Success:

• Improved build test integration release and developer feedback speed without compromising quality.

• More reproducible traceable secure and observable engineering workflows.

• Earlier detection and faster resolution of integration defects pipeline failures and invalid quality signals.

• Strong adoption of common platforms standards and automation by product teams and suppliers.

• Measurable gains in release confidence mainline stability test effectiveness and engineering productivity.

Compensation:

The salary range for this role is $147000 to $196300. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.

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Benefits Overview

The goal of the General Motors of Canada total rewards program is to support the health and well-being of you and your family. Our comprehensive compensation plan currently includes the following benefits in addition to many others:

• Paid time off including vacation days holidays and supplemental benefits for pregnancy parental and adoption leave;

• Healthcare dental and vision benefits;

• Life insurance plans to cover you and your family;

• Company and matching contributions to a Defined Contribution Pension plan to help you save for retirement;

• GM Vehicle Purchase Plan for you and your family