Principal Software Engineer – Embedded Software Platform

Jobtailor

Markham

On-site

CAD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a senior architecture leader to set multi-year direction for embedded and real-time software platforms in a large-scale environment. You will guide cross-domain teams, shape platform reliability, and drive architectural decisions with executive stakeholders.

The role emphasizes practical judgment, risk assessment, and building scalable, secure, and maintainable software ecosystems in a fast-paced setting.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
15+ years of experience leading architecture across organizations.
Deep understanding of embedded and real-time software architecture.
Proven record delivering safety-critical or mission-critical products.
Strong ability to influence technical decisions without direct authority.

Responsibilities

Set multi-year technical direction and target-state architecture for cross-domain engineering platforms.
Define strategy, governance, reliability expectations, and decision frameworks across teams.
Resolve ambiguous architectural tradeoffs spanning product lines, suppliers, technology stacks, and delivery cadences.
Improve engineering effectiveness through platforms, automation, reusable patterns, data, and operating models.
Influence senior leaders with recommendations grounded in risk, cost, quality, and business impact.
Lead through principal and staff engineers, developing technical leaders and communities of practice.

Skills

Multi-Year Technical Direction

Embedded Software Architecture

CI/CD Platform Architecture

Python Proficiency

Technical Influence

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GitHub Enterprise

Terraform

Kubernetes

Bazel

Git

Artifact Management

Cloud Platforms

Job description

Set multi-year technical direction and target-state architecture for cross-domain engineering platform capabilities
Define strategy, investment priorities, sequencing, principles, standards, governance, reliability expectations, and decision frameworks
Resolve ambiguous architectural tradeoffs spanning organizations, product lines, suppliers, technology stacks, and delivery cadences
Improve engineering effectiveness and product outcomes through platforms, automation, reusable patterns, data, and operating models
Influence senior and executive leaders through recommendations grounded in technical judgment, risk, cost, quality, and business impact
Lead through principal and staff engineers, develop technical leaders, and strengthen communities of practice
Remain technically credible and selectively hands-on in high-value or high-risk problems
Define future-state architecture and multi-year roadmaps for the assigned domain and adjacent interfaces
Lead resolution of cross-domain technical risks involving architecture, quality, security, reliability, cost, scalability, and delivery continuity
Advise leadership on investments, program risk, platform health, and enterprise tradeoffs
Convene architecture reviews and technical communities across engineering, validation, cloud, cybersecurity, quality, program management, and suppliers
Sponsor platform capabilities, automation, data models, and self-service experiences
Define success measures and use evidence to prioritize improvements and verify impact
Represent GM's technical direction with internal and external partners while maintaining high standards for safety, quality, security, and customer impact

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, including substantial experience leading architecture across organizations
Deep understanding of embedded and real-time software architecture
Record of delivering high-quality safety-critical or mission-critical products
Demonstrated enterprise or multi-organization technical influence without direct authority
Exceptional judgment in ambiguous, high-consequence technical decisions
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 and 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
For Virtualization and CI infrastructure: significant CI/CD platform architecture experience; deep Kubernetes cluster operations, Terraform or comparable IaC module design, and production cloud architecture experience; enterprise security, compliance, progressive delivery, artifact flow, and observability standards; adoption of common virtual development platforms
For CI and Quality: enterprise CI/CD architecture, quality-gating policy, and release-readiness frameworks for embedded or vehicle software; understanding of MCU and SoC build systems, embedded Linux, AUTOSAR, Yocto, containers, cross-compilation, or vehicle deployment workflows; GitHub Enterprise or comparable platform governance; artifact promotion, virtual and hardware validation, and secure delivery controls
For Test-system modernization: architecture and modernization strategy for large-scale embedded test systems; variation management, configuration comparison, change-impact analysis, and risk-based regression; test-result data models, APIs, analytics, diagnostics, and integrations; enterprise test standards
For Build-system modernization: enterprise embedded build-system architecture and developer-productivity strategy; large-scale migration from Make or shell orchestration to Bazel or comparable platforms; reusable rules, macros, toolchains, platforms, repository standards, artifact provenance, and reproducible builds; adoption and outcome measurement
GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship; candidates must not require GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in defining multi-year technical direction and architecture for cross-domain engineering platforms, with a strong focus on embedded and real-time software systems. Proven ability to influence technical decisions and lead teams in delivering high-quality, safety-critical products while managing complex tradeoffs across organizations.

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