Principal Embedded Engineer, Body Controls Compliance

General Motors Ventures; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Retirement plan

GM vehicle discounts

Tuition assistance

Paid vacation

Employee assistance program

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead safety‑critical Body Controls software, guiding compliance across Occupant Protection, Position, Cabin Comfort, Lighting, and Secure Vehicle Access. You will design scalable embedded C/C++ software, mentor staff, and shape testing, benchmarking, and integration practices.

The role requires deep technical leadership, cross‑functional collaboration, and the ability to influence regulatory and standards bodies while maintaining top

Qualifications

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electronics & Communication, Electrical Engineering, or related degree.
• 10+ years of experience in Embedded Software development and launching quality software into production.
• Demonstrated successful technical track record leading software development teams in complex system environments.
• Experience with safety critical development and testing in regulated environments (FDA, FAA, Automotive, Aerospace).
• Experience with real-time operating systems or middleware.
• Proficiency with C/C++.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead software compliance strategy for new technology and highly complex features for Body Controls Platform development.
• Define a compliance & technology roadmap.
• Drive architecture standards, patterns, and principles, actively engaging with and leading third party standards initiatives.
• Serve as subject matter expert on safety, regulation and compliance matters.
• Establish a forward looking external posture on emerging trends and standards impacting Body Controls domains.
• Work across orgs to ensure coherent joint architecture across the full stack.
• Maintain alignment between senior leadership and engineering teams through executive communication.
• Maintain high-quality bar in projects from the start and champion quality improvements by adopting better technical practices.
• Work with other teams to ensure system level architecture and compliance strategies are implemented.
• Initiate large projects with complex architecture, breaking into usable components.
• Improve and deliver reliable software through requirements, CI, automated testing, issue tracking, and code reviews.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to Senior and Staff engineers.

Skills

Leadership experience

Software quality mindset

Mentorship

Executive communication

Regulatory & safety compliance

C/C++ proficiency

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering

Tools

Embedded RTOS / Linux / POSIX

CI/CD tooling

Embedded build systems

Job description

General Motors is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead safety‑critical Body Controls software, guiding compliance across Occupant Protection, Position, Cabin Comfort, Lighting, and Secure Vehicle Access. You will design scalable embedded C/C++ software, mentor staff, and shape testing, benchmarking, and integration practices.

The role requires deep technical leadership, cross‑functional collaboration, and the ability to influence regulatory and standards bodies while maintaining top