Staff Software Engineer - Virtualization
About The Position
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.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in software engineering or equivalent experience.
- 10 years of experience in software development.
- Deep understanding of software architecture for real time systems.
- Experience shipping high quality safety critical products.
- Exceptional problem-solving and analytical abilities, with a keen attention to detail.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Demonstrated ability to work in an action-oriented decision-making environment.
- Deep Kubernetes knowledge including cluster operations.
- Strong Terraform/IaC experience with production‑grade module design.
- Experience with embedded or simulation workflows (vECUs, SIL, FMU, SSP).
- Cloud architecture experience across AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Nice To Haves
- Master's degree in software engineering or equivalent experience.
- 15 years of experience in software development.
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Be a critical leader of software engineering productivity and effectiveness.
- Identify opportunities, strategies, process improvements, and lead the change.
- Be hands-on by leading high impact efforts.
- Be a strong communicator, coach, and mentor.
- Analyze unusual and difficult problems effectively.
- Ability to connect multiple initiatives together to deliver higher value.
- Visualize required innovation, learning and simplification in this space and transition the team to execute what is required to achieve.
- Maintain command skills and empathy at the same time.
- Architect enterprise‑scale CI/CD systems for embedded, simulation, and cloud workloads.
- Define branching, release, and quality‑gate standards across multiple engineering domains.
- Design GitOps‑based delivery for multi‑cluster Kubernetes environments.
- Lead progressive delivery strategy including automated rollback and analysis.
- Establish IaC architecture using Terraform modules and multi‑environment patterns.
- Integrate security and compliance into pipelines and artifact flows.
- Define observability standards for pipelines, simulation workloads, and runtime systems.
- Mentor DevOps and simulation developers across the organization.
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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Associate degree
