Principal Software Engineer - Virtualization

General Motors; Honolulu (HI); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

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 turns ambiguous, cross-team problems into durable architecture, standards, and measurable improvements in engineering effectiveness, release confidence, and product quality.

You will lead a major capability across multiple teams, influence direction beyond your group, and connect software, tooling, infrastructure, test, and release

Qualifications

• No formal requirements listed in the job ad.

Responsibilities

• Lead software engineering productivity and effectiveness across teams.
• Identify opportunities, strategies and process improvements and drive change.
• Hands-on leadership of high-impact efforts.
• Strong communicator, coach and mentor.
• Analyze complex engineering problems.
• Connect multiple initiatives to deliver higher value.
• Visualize innovation and simplification to enable execution.
• Maintain leadership presence with empathy.
• Architect enterprise-scale CI/CD for embedded, simulation, and cloud workloads.
• Define branching, release, and quality gates across domains.
• Design GitOps delivery for multi-cluster Kubernetes.
• Lead progressive delivery with automated rollback and analysis.
• Establish IaC with Terraform and multi-environment patterns.
• Integrate security and compliance into pipelines.

Job description

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

JR-202621008

Job Description

Work Arrangement:

This role is based remotely, but if the candidate lives within a 50 miles 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 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:

• 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
• 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.