Staff Software Engineer - Virtualization
About The Position
General Motors is seeking a hands-on technical leader to shape and scale engineering platforms for building, testing, integrating, validating, and delivering embedded software for software-defined vehicles. The role leads a major capability across multiple teams, influences technical direction beyond the immediate organization, and connects software, tooling, infrastructure, test, and release activities into a coherent engineering system. It focuses on turning ambiguous, cross-team problems into durable architecture, practical standards, and measurable improvements in engineering effectiveness, release confidence, and product quality. The position is remote, with employees who live within 50 miles of a GM hub expected to report to that location three times per week or at another frequency set by their manager. Travel is required for less than 25% of the role. Qualified candidates may be eligible for relocation benefits. The role may also qualify for GM's vehicle evaluation program after a motor vehicle report review; participants generally must purchase or lease a qualifying GM vehicle every four years, subject to limited exceptions.
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 attention to detail.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to work in an action-oriented decision-making environment.
- Deep Kubernetes knowledge, including cluster operations.
- Strong Terraform and infrastructure-as-code experience with production-grade module design.
- Experience with embedded or simulation workflows, such as vECUs, SIL, FMU, or 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
- Lead software engineering productivity and effectiveness initiatives, identifying opportunities, strategies, and process improvements and driving change.
- Lead high-impact technical efforts hands-on.
- Communicate effectively and coach and mentor others.
- Analyze unusual and difficult problems and connect multiple initiatives to deliver greater value.
- Identify needed innovation, learning, and simplification, and transition the team to execute those changes.
- 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 infrastructure-as-code 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
- Incentive pay program with payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Accounts.
- Retirement savings plan.
- Sickness and accident benefits.
- Life insurance.
- Paid vacation and holidays.
- Tuition assistance programs.
- Employee assistance program.
- GM vehicle discounts.
- Relocation benefits for candidates who qualify under company policy.
- Potential participation in a company vehicle evaluation program, subject to eligibility and program requirements.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
