Senior Core OS Engineer: Hypervisor & VM Platform Lead

General Motors; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 330,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Tuition assistance

Vehicle discounts

Paid vacation

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a senior software engineer to help define the OS platform for its software-defined vehicles. You will own hypervisor integration, VM configurations, and device virtualization across embedded Linux, Yocto, Android, and QNX, while leading debugging and performance optimization across hardware, firmware, and kernel layers.

The role emphasizes architectural leadership, cross-team mentoring, and advancing CI/CD with automated testing and release-quality software.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of professional experience in embedded, systems, or kernel-level software development in automotive or similar domains.
• Deep expertise in OS-level software on Arm-based SoCs across multiple areas (hypervisor integration, VM configuration, device virtualization, RTOS, Linux kernel, bootloaders, Yocto).

Responsibilities

• Own hypervisor and VM capabilities including definitions, partitioning, device passthrough, and virtio models.
• Design and optimize inter-VM communication for throughput and determinism.
• Enable guest OSes across embedded Linux, Yocto, Android, QNX with shared platform services and tooling.
• Implement boot/secure-boot chain across partitions and ensure platform integrity.
• Develop platform services for governance, health monitoring, fault detection, and recovery.
• Develop container runtimes and workload management for in-vehicle apps with isolation and updates.
• Lead root-cause analysis using traces and low-level tools spanning hardware to user space.
• Drive CI/CD, bench/HIL automation, and code reviews; mentor cross-team.

Skills

Embedded software

Linux kernel

C/C++

Python

Shell scripting

Git/GitHub

CI/CD

Debugging/root-causes

Architecture leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE/CE or related

10+ years embedded/kernel software experience

Tools

GitHub

Yocto

Open source tooling

Embedded Linux

KVM/Arm

Job description

General Motors is seeking a senior software engineer to help define the OS platform for its software-defined vehicles. You will own hypervisor integration, VM configurations, and device virtualization across embedded Linux, Yocto, Android, and QNX, while leading debugging and performance optimization across hardware, firmware, and kernel layers.

The role emphasizes architectural leadership, cross-team mentoring, and advancing CI/CD with automated testing and release-quality software.