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About the Role

General Motors is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to shape and scale engineering platforms for embedded software in software-defined vehicles. This hands-on technical leader will address ambiguous, cross-team problems, establishing durable architecture, practical standards, and measurable improvements in engineering effectiveness, release confidence, and product quality. The role involves leading major capabilities across multiple teams, influencing technical direction, and integrating software, tooling, infrastructure, test, and release activities.

Responsibilities

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.
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.

Requirements

Bachelor’s 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

Skills

Embedded software
Software-defined vehicles
Technical leadership
Architecture
Standards
Engineering effectiveness
Release confidence
Product quality
Real-time systems
Cloud environments
Simulation
Test environments
Release environments
Reliability
Developer productivity
Python
Linux
Git
Containers
CI/CD
Infrastructure as code
Test automation
Artifact repositories
Data platforms
API platforms
Kubernetes
Terraform
vECUs
SIL
FMU
SSP
GitHub Enterprise
ECUs
MCUs
SoCs
Networks
Configuration
Calibration
Static analysis
Security scanning
Coverage analysis
Integration testing
Hardware-based validation
Databricks
Bazel
Make
Shell scripting
Cross-compilation
Toolchains
Firmware
Build reproducibility
Functional safety
ISO 26262
Cybersecurity engineering
ASPICE
MISRA
AUTOSAR
CoSIM
HIL

Location

Remote
Hybrid

Work Type

Remote
Hybrid

Experience Level

Staff
15+ years

Education Level

Bachelor's degree
Equivalent practical experience

Salary/Compensations

$171,150 - $288,500

Benefits

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

About the Company

Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.
We believe we all must make a choice every day – individually and collectively – to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.
From day one, we're looking out for your well-being–at work and at home–so you can focus on realizing your ambitions. Learn how GM supports a rewarding career that rewards you personally by visiting Total Rewards resources.

Equal Opportunity

General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of unlawful discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that providing an inclusive workplace creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers.
All employment decisions are made on a non-discriminatory basis without regard to sex, race, color, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, pregnancy or maternity status, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran or protected veteran, or any other similarly protected status in accordance with federal, state and local laws.
We encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications for each role and apply for any positions that match their skills and capabilities. Applicants in the recruitment process may be required, where applicable, to successfully complete a role-related assessment(s) and/or a pre-employment screening prior to beginning employment. To learn more, visit How we Hire.
General Motors offers opportunities to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email us or call us at 1-800-865-7580. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.