Senior Embedded Linux Kernel Engineer - Automotive

General Motors LLC; United States; Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and well-being benefits

GM vehicle discounts

Tuition assistance

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Linux kernel and driver development in automotive embedded systems. You will lead bring-up activities, integrate hardware subsystems, and contribute to upstream kernel work. Strong debugging skills and collaboration with cross-functional teams are essential.

The role emphasizes kernel internals, camera bring-up, MIPI-CSI, and networking, with a focus on reliability, diagnostics, and health monitoring.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or related field.
• 3+ years of experience in embedded Linux kernel development and board bring-up.
• Expertise in Linux kernel internals: memory management, scheduling, file systems, IPC.

Responsibilities

• Develop and enhance Linux kernel and device drivers for camera sensors, display interfaces, multimedia subsystems, and networking.
• Lead system bring-up activities including bootloader configuration and BSP development.
• Integrate hardware components such as USB, PCIe, I2C, and Ethernet for seamless software operation.
• Implement diagnostics and health monitoring to ensure reliability in automotive systems.
• Troubleshoot low-level issues in camera interfaces, high-speed data paths, and networking.
• Collaborate with hardware teams to validate platform issues and support manufacturing and testing.

Skills

Embedded Linux kernel

Device driver programming

Board bring-up

MIPI-CSI

U-Boot bootloaders

Ethernet/WiFi

C/C++

JTAG/GDB

SoC architectures

RT optimizations

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Work equivalent experience

Tools

GDB

JTAG

ftrace

kdump

perf

Job description

General Motors is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Linux kernel and driver development in automotive embedded systems. You will lead bring-up activities, integrate hardware subsystems, and contribute to upstream kernel work. Strong debugging skills and collaboration with cross-functional teams are essential.

The role emphasizes kernel internals, camera bring-up, MIPI-CSI, and networking, with a focus on reliability, diagnostics, and health monitoring.