Principal SWE - Test System Modernization (Remote)

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

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