Principal Bazel Architect for Real-Time Automotive Software

General Motors; Markham; Hybrid; CAD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors seeks a software engineering leader to modernize and scale build systems for software-defined vehicles. Lead migration from Make-based workflows to Bazel, shaping strategy, infrastructure, and across-repo tooling with a focus on speed, reliability, and reproducibility.

You will drive end-to-end Bazel adoption, integrate with enterprise CI/CD, and mentor teams while delivering measurable productivity improvements in a hybrid role based in Markham or Oshawa.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in software engineering or equivalent experience.
• 10+ to 15+ 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.
• Strong expertise building and maintaining production software systems, with proficiency in Python and at least one additional language used in engineering tooling environments.
• Automotive, embedded, safety-related, calibration, or systems-engineering environments.
• Large-scale migration from Make or shell-based build orchestration to Bazel.
• AI-assisted developer productivity, coding agents, code intelligence, knowledge retrieval, or workflow orchestration.
• Evaluation of AI-enabled engineering workflows using measurable quality, adoption, and

Responsibilities

• Lead software engineering productivity and effectiveness by identifying opportunities, shaping strategies, improving processes, guiding change, and connecting initiatives to deliver greater value through innovation, learning, and simplification.
• Lead high-impact efforts hands-on, solve complex and unusual problems, and communicate effectively as a coach and mentor while balancing technical command with empathy.
• Modernize a large embedded-software build and test system by transitioning legacy Make- or shell-based workflows to Bazel and establishing scalable, reproducible, secure, and developer-friendly infrastructure across repositories, toolchains, CI/CD, testing, and release processes.
• Assess current build, test, dependency, toolchain, and hardware workflows to define a phased Bazel migration strategy and rollout model.
• Design and implement reusable Bazel rules, macros, toolchains, platforms, configuration patterns, and repository standards, while migrating embedded applications, libraries, generated code, firmware, cross-compilation flows, and platform variants with validated build parity and reproducibility.
• Integrate Bazel with enterprise CI/CD, testing, release, artifact, deployment, observability, security, and infrastructure workflows, and optimize the platform through caching, parallelism, reliability practices, documentation, training, legacy Make retirement, and continuous improvement.
• Measure success through target repositories migrated with validated build and test parity; faster clean and incremental builds, CI queues, and developer feedback; increased reproducibility, approved hermetic-toolchain adoption, cache effectiveness, and CI capacity; and lower build, pipeline, and flaky-test rates.
• Improve diagnosis and recovery time while ensuring complete artifact provenance, test evidence, and security-policy compliance for releases, strong developer adoption, reduced support burden, and measurable productivity improvement.
• Hold a bachelor's degree in software engineering or have equivalent experience, along with 15 years of software development experience.
• Bring a deep understanding of real-time software architecture and experience shipping high-quality, safety-critical products in automotive, embedded, safety-related, calibration, or systems-engineering environments.
• Demonstrate exceptional problem-solving and analytical abilities, keen attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in fast-paced, action-oriented decision-making environments.
• Bring strong expertise building and maintaining production software systems, proficiency in Python and at least one additional engineering-tooling language, and experience with AI-assisted developer productivity, coding agents, code intelligence, knowledge retrieval, or workflow orchestration.
• Evaluate AI-enabled engineering workflows using measurable quality, adoption, and

Skills

Real-time software architecture

Problem-solving

Project management

Python

Engineering tooling language

AI-assisted productivity

Education

Bachelor's degree in software engineering

Tools

Python

Code intelligence tooling

Job description

General Motors seeks a software engineering leader to modernize and scale build systems for software-defined vehicles. Lead migration from Make-based workflows to Bazel, shaping strategy, infrastructure, and across-repo tooling with a focus on speed, reliability, and reproducibility.

You will drive end-to-end Bazel adoption, integrate with enterprise CI/CD, and mentor teams while delivering measurable productivity improvements in a hybrid role based in Markham or Oshawa.