Principal Software Engineer, Embedded & Test Automation

General Motors; Juneau (AK); Hybrid; USD 239,000 - 366,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

GM vehicle discounts

Relocation benefits

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to shape and scale embedded software platforms for software-defined vehicles. Lead the modernization of large-scale test systems and craft automated, headless testing frameworks across virtual and physical environments.

You will influence multi-team architecture, connect software, tooling, test and release activities, and coach teams toward higher engineering effectiveness and release confidence.

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 or more 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 in this space and transition theteam 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

Real-time software

Linux

Git

Python

Bash

Robot Framework

Containers

Infrastructure as code

Test automation

CI/CD

Change-impact analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/engineering or related field

Tools

Robot Framework

Databricks

Containers

Job description

General Motors is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to shape and scale embedded software platforms for software-defined vehicles. Lead the modernization of large-scale test systems and craft automated, headless testing frameworks across virtual and physical environments.

You will influence multi-team architecture, connect software, tooling, test and release activities, and coach teams toward higher engineering effectiveness and release confidence.