Principal Embedded Software Architect & CI/CD Lead

General Motors; United States; Remote; USD 239,000 - 366,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Accounts

Retirement savings plan

Sickness and accident benefits

Life insurance

Paid vacation & holidays

Tuition assistance programs

Employee assistance program

GM vehicle discounts and more

Job summary

General Motors seeks a Principal Software Engineer to shape and scale embedded software platforms for software-defined vehicles. You will lead cross‑team architecture, align software tooling, tests, and releases, and drive measurable engineering improvements.

The role emphasizes hands‑on leadership, mentoring, and strategic direction across multiple teams to deliver durable, automated testing and high confidence releases.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent with 15+ years validating software systems and leading architecture across orgs.
• Deep understanding of software architecture for real time systems.
• Experience shipping high quality safety critical products.
• Experience architecting large‑scale CI/CD, embedded test automation, and build‑to‑test pipelines.
• Expertise in variation management, configuration comparison, change‑impact analysis, and risk‑based regression testing.
• Experience with test‑result data modeling, Databricks, analytics, data mining, and API development.
• Proficiency with embedded systems, Linux, Git, Python, Bash, Robot Framework, containers, and infrastructure as code.
• Demonstrated ability to integrate automated diagnostics and issue‑management workflows.

Responsibilities

• Be a critical leader of software engineering productivity and effectiveness.
• Identify opportunities, strategies, process improvements, and lead the change.
• Be hands‑on by leading high impact efforts.
• Be a strong communicator, coach, and mentor.
• Analyze unusual and difficult problems effectively and connect initiatives to deliver value.
• Lead modernization of a large‑scale embedded software test system.
• Define and modernize a standardized, fully automated headless framework across environments for frequent testing.

Skills

Real-time architecture

CI/CD pipelines

Embedded systems

Linux

Git

Python

Bash

Robot Framework

Containers

Infrastructure as Code

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, software engineering, systems engineering or related technical field

Tools

Databricks

Job description

General Motors seeks a Principal Software Engineer to shape and scale embedded software platforms for software-defined vehicles. You will lead cross‑team architecture, align software tooling, tests, and releases, and drive measurable engineering improvements.

The role emphasizes hands‑on leadership, mentoring, and strategic direction across multiple teams to deliver durable, automated testing and high confidence releases.