Principal Embedded Software Engineer: Testing Platform Lead

General Motors; Carson City (NV); Hybrid; USD 239,000 - 366,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

GM vehicle discounts

Relocation benefits available

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to shape and scale embedded software platforms for software-defined vehicles. This hands-on technical leader will drive cross-team architecture, standards, and tooling, connecting software, testing, and release activities into a cohesive engineering system.

The role requires leading a major capability across multiple teams, advancing automated testing, and modernizing large-scale test infrastructure to enable frequent full-suite testing in

Qualifications

• 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+ years experience validating software systems, including substantial experience leading architecture across organizations.
• 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.
• Ability to connect multiple initiatives together to deliver higher value.
• Visualize required innovation, learning and simplification and transition the team to execute what is required to achieve.
• Maintain command skills and empathy at the same time.
• Lead the modernization of a large-scale embedded software test system.
• Define and modernize a standardized, fully automated, headless framework across virtual and physical environments to enable full-suite testing multiple times per day.

Skills

Embedded systems

Linux

Git

Python

Bash

Robot Framework

Containers

Infrastructure as code

Software architecture

CI/CD

Test automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Master’s degree or PhD (preferred)

Tools

Databricks

APIs

Job description

General Motors is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to shape and scale embedded software platforms for software-defined vehicles. This hands-on technical leader will drive cross-team architecture, standards, and tooling, connecting software, testing, and release activities into a cohesive engineering system.

The role requires leading a major capability across multiple teams, advancing automated testing, and modernizing large-scale test infrastructure to enable frequent full-suite testing in