Remote Senior Manager, Core OS & Vehicle Platform

General Motors; United States; Remote; USD 239,000 - 366,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing benefits

GM vehicle discounts

Vacation & holidays

Job summary

General Motors seeks a Senior Software Engineering Manager, Core OS, to build and lead the Core OS team under the Vehicle Experiences Engine (VEE). You will define charter, hire founding engineers, set architecture, and deliver initial milestones for the high-performance OS layer interfacing with silicon and guest OS teams.

You will drive cross-functional collaboration across BSP, cybersecurity, functional safety, and vehicle programs, while delivering scalable platform services and KPI-driven

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional experience building embedded or systems software.
• 5+ years of engineering leadership experience, including leading senior engineers and managers.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or related fields.
• Demonstrated success delivering production-grade OS or platform software on modern SoC-based or embedded systems.
• Experience in ambiguous, early-stage environments - defining scope and interfaces, making architectural commitments.
• Depth in at least one: type-1 hypervisors and virtualization, real-time OS, or embedded Linux deployed at scale.
• Proven ability to drive large-scale software programs to completion with milestone planning and cross-team coordination.
• Strong technical credibility with vision setting, architecture influence, and execution across teams.
• Cross-functional leadership and executive communication skills.
• Proficiency with Git/GitHub, CI/CD, automated testing, boot and performance KPI instrumentation.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a high-performing engineering organization of senior engineers and engineering leaders.
• Own the roadmap and delivery of the core OS layer: hypervisor and virtualization, VMM lifecycle, inter-VM communication, and boot/secure-boot chain.
• Deliver the safety-relevant foundation of the compute platform with health monitoring, fault detection, and recovery.
• Establish on-vehicle container and workload management, including runtime isolation and updateability of workloads.
• Enable multiple guest operating systems (embedded Linux, Android, QNX) with consistent platform services across all.
• Set and drive platform KPIs for compute efficiency, startup time, memory footprint, scalability, and reliability.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration with BSP, silicon enablement, cybersecurity, and vehicle program teams.
• Build vendor and ecosystem partnerships with silicon, RTOS, and hypervisor suppliers.

Skills

Embedded systems

Engineering leadership

OS/Platform software

Cross-functional leadership

CI/CD

Yocto Linux

Hypervisors

ISO 26262 (automotive)

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

Gunyah

QNX Hypervisor

Xen

KVM/ARM

Virtio virtualization

Job description

General Motors seeks a Senior Software Engineering Manager, Core OS, to build and lead the Core OS team under the Vehicle Experiences Engine (VEE). You will define charter, hire founding engineers, set architecture, and deliver initial milestones for the high-performance OS layer interfacing with silicon and guest OS teams.

You will drive cross-functional collaboration across BSP, cybersecurity, functional safety, and vehicle programs, while delivering scalable platform services and KPI-driven