Principal Software Engineer - Embedded Systems & Platform

RiseMe; Brighton Charter Township (MI); On-site; USD 171,000 - 289,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

GM vehicle discounts

Health insurance

Retirement savings plan

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to shape and scale engineering platforms for embedded software in software-defined vehicles. This hands-on leader will drive durable architecture, standards, and improvements across multiple teams, linking software, tooling, and release activities into a cohesive system.

The role requires 12+ years in software, deep real-time and safety-critical experience, Kubernetes and Terraform expertise, and strong leadership in a fast-paced,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in software engineering or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of experience in software development.
• Deep understanding of software architecture for real time systems.
• Experience shipping high quality safety critical products.
• Exceptional problem-solving and analytical abilities, with a keen attention to detail.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated ability to work in an action-oriented decision-making environment.
• Deep Kubernetes knowledge including cluster operations.
• Strong Terraform/IaC experience with production-grade module design.
• Experience with embedded or simulation workflows (vECUs, SIL, FMU, SSP).
• Cloud architecture experience across AWS, Azure, or GCP.

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 in this space and transition the team to execute what is required to achieve.
• Maintain command skills and empathy at the same time.
• Architect enterprise-scale CI/CD systems for embedded, simulation, and cloud workloads.
• Define branching, release, and quality-gate standards across multiple engineering domains.
• Design GitOps-based delivery for multi-cluster Kubernetes environments.
• Lead progressive delivery strategy including automated rollback and analysis.
• Establish IaC architecture using Terraform modules and multi-environment patterns.
• Integrate security and compliance into pipelines and artifact flows.
• Define observability standards for pipelines, simulation workloads, and runtime systems.
• Mentor DevOps and simulation developers across the organization.

Skills

Software architecture

Real-time systems

Kubernetes

Terraform/IaC

CI/CD pipelines

Embedded software

Cloud platforms

Leadership

Debugging

Education

Bachelor's degree in software engineering

Master's degree

Advanced degree

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

SIL/VECU/HIL

Job description

General Motors is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to shape and scale engineering platforms for embedded software in software-defined vehicles. This hands-on leader will drive durable architecture, standards, and improvements across multiple teams, linking software, tooling, and release activities into a cohesive system.

The role requires 12+ years in software, deep real-time and safety-critical experience, Kubernetes and Terraform expertise, and strong leadership in a fast-paced,