Principal Software Engineer - Virtualization

General Motors Africa & Middle East; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 171,000 - 289,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company vehicle program

Job summary

General Motors Africa & Middle East is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to shape and scale engineering platforms for embedded software in software-defined vehicles. You will lead cross-team efforts, architect scalable CI/CD, and drive security, observability, and compliance across pipelines and runtimes.

The role is remote with the expectation to report to a GM hub within the region as needed, and it offers high-impact leadership across multiple domains including tooling, tests, and release

Qualifications

• BS in software engineering or equivalent; 12+ years of software development
• Real-time systems architecture experience
• Experience shipping safety-critical products

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise-scale CI/CD for embedded, simulation, and cloud workloads.
• Define branching, release, and quality-gate standards across domains.
• Design GitOps-based delivery for multi-cluster Kubernetes environments.
• Lead progressive delivery with 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 and runtime systems.
• Mentor DevOps and simulation developers across the organization.

Skills

Kubernetes

Terraform/IaC

Embedded/Simulation

Cloud architecture

Leadership

Communication

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in software engineering

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

GitOps

Terraform

CI/CD

Job description

## Principal Software Engineer - VirtualizationApply: 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-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 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.**Your Skills & Abilities (Required 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. **What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications):** * Master's degree in software engineering or equivalent experience* 15+ years of experience in software development .* Experience in automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, or another embedded, real-time, regulated, or safety-critical environment.* Knowledge of functional safety, ISO 26262, cybersecurity engineering, ASPICE, MISRA, AUTOSAR, or related engineering practices.* Experience with vehicle-level integration and validation, including SIL, CoSIM, vECU, HIL, benches, physical systems, or other virtual and hardware-based environments.* A record of creating enterprise standards, platform strategies, technical communities, developer self-service, reliability objectives, or measurable productivity improvements.* Advanced degree in a related technical field.**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 Range:** Salary range for this role is 171,150 and 288,500. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.