Lead Core OS Architect for Vehicle Compute

General Motors

Mountain View (CA)

Hybrid

USD 160,000 - 330,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

General Motors in Mountain View seeks a Staff Software Engineer to advance the Core OS for vehicle compute. You will implement hypervisor and VM capabilities, enable guest OSs (Yocto, Android, QNX), and ensure safe, deterministic resource partitioning across partitions.

You will optimize boot/secure-boot chains, build platform services for health monitoring and fault handling, and guide reviews across silicon, BSP, and safety teams while contributing to CI/CD, automation, and tooling.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent practical experience.
Ten or more years of professional experience in embedded, systems, or kernel-level software development, including production software in automotive or similarly complex embedded domains.
Deep expertise in operating-system-level software on Arm-based SoCs, with experience in several of the following areas:* Hypervisor integration, virtual machine configuration, and device virtualization
Real-time operating systems and deterministic scheduling
Linux kernel subsystems, kernel configuration, and low-level system behavior
Bootloaders, secure boot, and platform startup sequencing
Experience delivering commercial embedded systems using Yocto or comparable embedded build systems.
Strong experience with system performance, optimization, and complex debugging, including root-cause analysis across hardware, firmware, hypervisors, kernels, and user space.
Experience with build systems and development tools, including Git, GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and release-quality engineering for platform software.
Strong proficiency in C and C++, plus practical experience with Python and shell scripting for automation, tooling, and debugging.
Demonstrated technical leadership through architecture contributions, mentoring, design reviews, code reviews, and cross-team execution.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions and explain complex system-level topics clearly.

Responsibilities

Own critical hypervisor and VM capabilities, including VM definitions, CPU/memory partitioning, device assignment and passthrough, and virtio-based device models.
Design and optimize communication between VMs using shared memory, message passing, and virtualized I/O for throughput and determinism.
Enable and maintain guest operating systems across embedded Linux (Yocto), Android, and QNX with consistent platform service access.
Implement and optimize boot and secure-boot chain across partitions for startup sequencing and platform integrity.
Build platform services for resource governance, health monitoring, watchdogs, fault detection, and recovery.
Develop container-runtime and workload-management for in-vehicle apps, including isolation and updates.
Profile, optimize, and debug CPU/memory/IO across the virtualization stack; lead root-cause analysis across hardware, firmware, and silicon.
Contribute to CI/CD, bench and HIL automation, validation strategies, Git workflows, and code reviews; mentor engineers and collaborate with safety and cybersecurity teams.