Principal Software Engineer- Test System Modernization

General Motors Africa & Middle East; Milford Charter Township (MI); 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 the engineering platforms for embedded software testing in software-defined vehicles. You will lead modernization of a large-scale test system, building a standardized, automated framework across virtual and physical environments to enable frequent full-suite testing.

You will influence multiple teams, drive architecture, and deliver measurable improvements in engineering effectiveness, release confidence, and product

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, software engineering, systems engineering or related field; or equivalent practical experience.
• Typically, 15+ years experience validating software systems, including 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

• Define the architecture and roadmap for standardized test execution, configuration and variation management, traceability, quality gates, regression selection, and results reporting.
• Establish change-impact analysis and risk-based regression strategies using tools to determine test applicability and optimize re-testing.
• Standardize test-result schemas, metadata, diagnostics, and artifacts; enable storage in Databricks for analytics, trend analysis, data mining, and reporting.
• Develop APIs and integrations connecting test execution, test management, issue tracking, failure triage, and diagnostic tools.
• Improve test robustness, failure triage, execution speed, and deployment efficiency across CI/CD pipelines and physical and virtual test environments.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-team collaboration

Problem solving

Communications

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Python

Bash

Robot Framework

Git

Linux

Containers

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

## Principal Software Engineer- Test System ModernizationApply: Remote/Hybrid: Milford, Michigan, United States of America: Remote - United States: Austin, Texas, United States of America: Mountain View, California, United States of America: Warren, Michigan, United States of America: Full time: Posted Today: JR-202620976**Job Description****The Role**General Motors is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to shape and scale the engineering platforms that build, test, integrate, validate, and deliver embedded software for software-defined vehicles. This role is for a hands-on technical leader who can turn ambiguous, cross-team problems into durable architecture, practical standards, and measurable improvements in engineering effectiveness, release confidence, and product quality.The successful candidate will lead a major capability across multiple teams, influence technical direction beyond their immediate organization, and connect software, tooling, infrastructure, test, and release activities into a coherent engineering system. **What You'll Do (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.* 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. **Key Deliverables*** Define the architecture and roadmap for standardized test execution, configuration and variation management, traceability, quality gates, regression selection, and results reporting.* Establish change-impact analysis and risk-based regression strategies using Gears, Pure Variants, or equivalent tools to determine test applicability and optimize re-testing.* Standardize test-result schemas, metadata, diagnostics, and artifacts; enable storage in Databricks for analytics, trend analysis, data mining, and reporting.* Develop APIs and integrations connecting test execution, test management, issue tracking, failure triage, and diagnostic tools.* Improve test robustness, failure triage, execution speed, and deployment efficiency across CI/CD pipelines and physical and virtual test environments. **Measures of Success*** Faster, more reliable test deployment and execution.* More efficient regression testing through accurate change-impact analysis.* Standardized, traceable test results accessible through Databricks and documented APIs.* Faster failure identification, triage, and resolution.* Clear test applicability across software, hardware, configuration, and platform variants.**Your Skills & Abilities (Required 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.**People Skills:*** 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.**What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications):*** Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Machine Learning, AI, or a related field.* Experience in embedded software development, automotive software, systems engineering, or safety-related toolchains.* Familiarity with GM engineering tools, engineering workflows, or internal platform environments.* Experience building AI assistants, coding agents, or domain-specific AI capabilities for engineers.* Experience with knowledge systems, vector search, ranking, workflow orchestration, or code intelligence platforms.* Experience supporting large engineering communities through reusable tools, templates, and automation.* Experience evaluating AI quality in production systems using measurable outcomes such as acceptance rate, time saved, precision and recall, hallucination reduction, or workflow completion rate.**Company Vehicle**Upon successful completion of a motor vehicle report review, you will be eligible to participate in a company vehicle evaluation program, though which you will be assigned a General Motors vehicle to drive and evaluate. Note: program participants are required to purchase/lease a qualifying GM vehicle every four years unless one of a limited number of exceptions applies. **Compensation**The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance with applicable state laws. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position, as well as geography of the selected candidate. The salary rang**e** for this role is $238,700 and $365,700. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.**Bonus Potential**An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.**Benefits**GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs. Benefit options include 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. #LI-DH2This role is based remotely, but if the selected candidate lives within a specific mile radius of a GM hub, they will be expected to report to the location three times a week {or other frequency dictated by your manager}.The selected candidate will be required to travel <25% for this role.Relocation benefits are available for candidates who qualify under company policy.