Staff Systems Engineer (Core Platform)

Job Description

Work Arrangement

Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Mountain View CA Warren MI or Austin TX three times per week.

The Role

The Physical and Virtual Tests Platform organisation at GM is building a cloud-native platform that transforms physical automotive test hardware into cloud-native compute resources. This platform enables developers to discover provision and execute workloads on automotive benches with the same ease as cloud computing. As a Staff Systems Engineer you will be the bridge between the platform and the hardware it manages -- building integration tooling hardware discovery services provisioning workflows and agent software in Go that connects diverse automotive test equipment to the platforms control plane. This is not a pure embedded development role. You will use your understanding of embedded systems hardware interfaces and low-level protocols to inform the design of platform services and tooling that abstract hardware complexity for hundreds of developers. You will work closely with both embedded engineering teams and platform engineers translating between their worlds and shaping the features that make the platform genuinely useful for teams working with physical hardware. This is a hands-on technical leadership role on a small greenfield team where your decisions will directly shape how the platform interacts with automotive hardware at scale. If you are excited about turning deep systems knowledge into platform services and developer tooling that transforms how engineers access and use test infrastructure this role offers the opportunity to define that layer from scratch.

What Youll Do

• Design and build integration tooling and agent services in Go that connect automotive test hardware to the platforms cloud-native control plane enabling automated hardware discovery state reporting and lifecycle management.

• Develop provisioning workflows that coordinate firmware flashing health checks power cycling and resource validation across diverse bench configurations working with existing vendor tools and automotive protocols.

• Engage with embedded engineering teams and bench users to understand their hardware workflows identify pain points and translate those findings into platform features and automation tooling.

• Build hardware abstraction layers that present heterogeneous bench hardware (varying ECU configurations communication interfaces firmware versions) as clean allocatable resources to the platforms scheduler and API.

• Contribute to core platform services in Go including the API scheduler and CLI tooling bringing a hardware-aware perspective to architecture and design decisions.

• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for firmware build automation integration testing and deployment workflows that span both platform services and hardware-facing components.

• Document hardware integration patterns protocol quirks and operational knowledge to build institutional understanding across the team.

• Collaborate with stakeholders across Infrastructure Engineering Quality Engineering and Hardware Infrastructure to define integration requirements validate platform capabilities against real-world bench workflows and drive adoption.

• Work with tools and technologies including Go PostgreSQL Nomad Consul Linux system interfaces automotive communication protocols (CAN Ethernet serial) CI/CD pipelines observability frameworks (Prometheus Grafana Datadog) and Git/GitHub.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering Electrical Engineering or related field or equivalent work experience.

• 8 years of software engineering experience with a strong foundation in systems-level programming and infrastructure development.

• Strong proficiency in Go with the ability to write clean maintainable production code for backend services and systems tooling.

• Solid understanding of Linux systems including system interfaces process management networking and service management (systemd).

• Experience building integration tooling agent services or automation frameworks that bridge hardware and software systems.

• Familiarity with embedded systems concepts including firmware management boot processes hardware interfaces (CAN SPI I2C UART Ethernet) and device lifecycle management.

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines build automation and deployment workflows for systems that include hardware-in-the-loop or physical device dependencies.

• Strong troubleshooting skills across hardware software and integration layers with a systematic debugging methodology.

• Ability to work across team boundaries engage with stakeholders who have different technical vocabularies and translate hardware requirements into platform features.

• Strong communication and documentation skills with the ability to capture and share integration knowledge across teams.

• Ownership mentality and comfort working on a small greenfield team where everyone contributes across the stack.

What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

• Experience building platforms tooling or services that manage physical hardware as allocatable resources (IaaS lab automation test infrastructure fleet management).

• Background in automotive software development ECU integration or hardware-in-the-loop testing environments.

• Hands-on experience with automotive communication protocols such as CAN LIN DoIP or UDS in a development or integration context.

• Experience with embedded Linux distributions (Yocto Buildroot) device trees or kernel-level configuration for hardware bring-up.

• Familiarity with HashiCorp stack (Nomad Consul Vault) for orchestration service discovery and secrets management.

• Experience developing Nomad device plugins or similar resource abstraction mechanisms for orchestration platforms.

• Understanding of firmware update mechanisms (OTA flashing tools) and hardware provisioning workflows.

• Experience with observability stacks including Prometheus Grafana Datadog distributed tracing and structured logging.

• Background in lab automation hardware validation or test infrastructure engineering.

• Experience migrating from legacy infrastructure to modern platforms whilst maintaining service reliability and business continuity.

• Track record of mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction across teams.

Additional Data:

This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.

GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply for this role if you will need GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future. This includes direct company sponsorship entry of GM as the immigration employer of record on a government form and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g. H1-B OPT STEM OPT CPT TN J-1 etc.)

Compensation: The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance with applicable state laws. The compensation may not be representative for positions located outside of New York Colorado California or Washington.

• The salary range for this role is 160200 to 263700. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.

• Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance job level and individual performance.

Benefits:

• Benefits: GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs. Benefit options include medical dental vision Health Savings Account Flexible Spending Accounts retirement savings plan sickness and accident benefits life insurance paid vacation & holidays tuition assistance programs employee assistance program GM vehicle discounts and more.

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