Lead Bazel Build Architect for Automotive Embedded Systems

General Motors; United States; Remote; USD 201,000 - 400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company vehicle program

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a software engineering leader to modernize and scale its embedded build systems. You will drive the transition from legacy Make-based workflows to Bazel, shaping strategy and implementing scalable infrastructure across repositories, CI/CD, testing, and release processes.

You will coach, mentor, and lead with a mix of technical rigor and customer-focused collaboration, while ensuring reproducible builds and reduced cycle times.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in software engineering or equivalent experience.
• 15+ years of software development experience.
• Deep understanding of software architecture for real time systems.
• Experience shipping high quality safety critical products.
• Exceptional problem-solving and analytical abilities with keen attention to detail.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong expertise building and maintaining production software systems, with Python and another tooling language.

Responsibilities

• Lead software engineering productivity and effectiveness by identifying opportunities and shaping strategies.
• Lead hands-on efforts, solve complex problems, and mentor teams.
• Modernize a large embedded-software build and test system by migrating to Bazel across repositories, CI/CD, testing, and release processes.
• Assess current workflows to define a phased Bazel migration strategy and rollout model.
• Design and implement reusable Bazel rules, macros, toolchains, platforms, and configuration patterns.
• Integrate Bazel with enterprise CI/CD, testing, release, and deployment workflows and optimize with caching and reliability practices.

Skills

Software architecture

Python

Real-time systems

Automotive software

Problem-solving

Project leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in software engineering

15+ years of software development experience

Tools

Bazel

Make

CI/CD tooling

Job description

General Motors is seeking a software engineering leader to modernize and scale its embedded build systems. You will drive the transition from legacy Make-based workflows to Bazel, shaping strategy and implementing scalable infrastructure across repositories, CI/CD, testing, and release processes.

You will coach, mentor, and lead with a mix of technical rigor and customer-focused collaboration, while ensuring reproducible builds and reduced cycle times.