Principal Software Engineer Embedded Software Platform

• Set multi-year technical direction and target-state architecture for a broad cross-domain capability or interconnected set of platform capabilities.

• Identify systemic constraints and opportunities across the software lifecycle then define the strategy investment priorities and sequencing to address them.

• Resolve the most ambiguous and consequential architectural tradeoffs spanning organizations product lines suppliers technology stacks and delivery cadences.

• Establish enterprise-level principles standards governance reliability expectations and decision frameworks that scale beyond a single program or team.

• Create leverage through platforms automation reusable patterns data and operating models that materially improve engineering effectiveness and product outcomes.

• Influence senior and executive leaders through clear recommendations grounded in technical judgment risk cost quality and measurable business impact.

• Lead through other technical leaders by developing principal and staff engineers strengthening communities of practice and raising the quality of architectural decisions.

• Remain technically credible and selectively hands-on in the highest-value or highest-risk problems.

Specialization Areas:

1. Virtualization and CI infrastructure

Set the strategy for a scalable virtual development platform spanning embedded simulation and cloud workloads. Define enterprise architecture and standards for CI/CD GitOps Kubernetes Terraform and infrastructure as code progressive delivery artifact and environment management security compliance and observability. Connect virtualized development to the broader vehicle software lifecycle and guide adoption across organizations.

Visualization and CI-specific basic qualifications

• Significant experience setting architecture and technical direction for CI/CD platforms spanning embedded simulation and cloud workloads.

• Deep experience with Kubernetes cluster operations Terraform or comparable infrastructure-as-code module design and production cloud architecture.

• Experience establishing enterprise standards for security compliance progressive delivery artifact flows and observability.

• Demonstrated ability to drive adoption of a common virtual development platform across organizations or product lines.

2. Continuous integration and quality gating

Set the end-to-end architecture and policy for how vehicle software is built composed validated promoted and released. Define the quality-gating model mainline-protection strategy evidence standards integration controls and release-readiness framework across component pillar system virtual physical and release-train flows. Establish the metrics and operating mechanisms that make quality signals trustworthy and delivery risk visible.

CI and Quality-related basic qualifications

• Significant experience defining enterprise CI/CD architecture quality-gating policy and release-readiness frameworks for embedded or vehicle software.

• Deep understanding of MCU and SoC build systems embedded Linux AUTOSAR Yocto containers cross-compilation or vehicle deployment workflows.

• Experience governing GitHub Enterprise or comparable platforms artifact promotion virtual and hardware validation and secure delivery controls.

• Demonstrated ability to align multiple organizations around objective quality signals integration standards and release policy.

3. Test-system modernization

Set the long-term architecture and modernization strategy for embedded test execution across virtual and physical environments. Establish common approaches to configuration and variation management change-impact analysis risk-based regression result-data modeling diagnostics APIs analytics and failure triage. Create a connected test ecosystem that improves traceability execution efficiency learning from test data and decision quality across the vehicle software lifecycle.

Test-specific basic qualifications

• Significant experience setting architecture and modernization strategy for large-scale embedded test systems across virtual and physical environments.

• Deep expertise in variation management configuration comparison change-impact analysis and risk-based regression strategies.

• Experience defining common test-result data models APIs analytics diagnostics and integrations across multiple engineering organizations.

• Demonstrated ability to establish enterprise test standards that improve traceability execution efficiency failure triage and decision quality.

4. Build-system modernization

Set the enterprise strategy for scalable embedded build systems and developer productivity. Define migration and convergence patterns for legacy Make or shell workflows and Bazel-based systems; establish standards for rules toolchains platforms reproducibility caching security provenance and release integration; and guide adoption across repositories teams and product lines. Evaluate emerging AI-assisted engineering capabilities using clear quality adoption and productivity measures.

Build System-specific basic qualifications

• Significant experience setting enterprise build-system architecture and developer-productivity strategy for embedded software.

• Deep experience leading large-scale migration from Make or shell-based orchestration to Bazel or a comparable build platform.

• Experience defining reusable rules macros toolchains platforms repository standards artifact provenance and reproducible build practices.

• Demonstrated ability to guide adoption and measure quality reliability capacity developer feedback and productivity outcomes across organizations.

What Youll Do:

• Define the future-state architecture and multi-year roadmap for the assigned domain and its interfaces with adjacent domains.

• Establish principles standards governance and decision rights that align independent teams and delivery organizations.

• Lead the resolution of cross-domain technical risks involving architecture quality security reliability cost scalability and delivery continuity.

• Advise senior and executive leadership on investment choices program risk platform health and tradeoffs between local optimization and enterprise value.

• Convene architecture reviews and technical communities that create durable alignment across engineering validation cloud cybersecurity quality program management and suppliers.

• Sponsor high-leverage platform capabilities automation data models and self-service experiences that improve outcomes at scale.

• Define measures of success and ensure the organization uses evidence to prioritize improvements and verify impact.

• Mentor and develop staff- and principal-level engineers and strengthen the organizations technical leadership pipeline.

• Represent GMs technical direction with internal and external partners while maintaining a high bar for safety quality security and customer impact.

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 including substantial experience leading architecture across organizations.

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

• Demonstrated enterprise or multi-organization technical influence including the ability to align leaders and teams without direct authority.

• Exceptional judgment in ambiguous high-consequence technical decisions and the ability to communicate complex tradeoffs to technical and executive audiences.

• Strong experience with production engineering platforms software delivery systems or engineering productivity capabilities; proficiency in Python and at least one additional language used in software or engineering-tooling environments.

• Significant depth in at least one of the four specialization areas described above and the breadth to connect it to the others.

• Experience designing or governing systems involving embedded software Linux Git CI/CD cloud platforms infrastructure as code test automation artifact management data APIs or platform reliability 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 vehicle-level integration and validation including SIL CoSIM vECU HIL benches physical systems or other virtual and hardware-based environments.

• A record of creating enterprise standards platform strategies technical communities developer self-service reliability objectives or measurable productivity improvements.

• Advanced degree in a related technical field.

Measures of Success:

• A coherent adopted technical direction across organizations programs and delivery cadences.

• Reduced systemic friction and risk across build test integration release and operational workflows.

• Higher confidence in software quality traceability security release readiness and engineering data.

• Durable platform adoption and measurable improvement in speed reliability capacity reuse and developer effectiveness.

• Stronger technical leadership bench clearer architectural accountability and faster resolution of cross-domain issues.

Company vehicle:

Upon successful completion of a motor vehicle report review you will be eligible to participate in a company vehicle evaluation program though which you will be assigned a General Motors vehicle to drive and evaluate. Note: program participants are required to purchase/lease a qualifying GM vehicle every four years unless one of a limited number of exceptions applies.

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 actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position as well as geography of the selected candidate.

The salary range for this role is 226000 and 407100. 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:

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.