Senior Embedded OS Engineer - Hypervisor & VM Lead

General Motors; United States; Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 330,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

GM vehicle discounts

Relocation assistance

Health benefits

Job summary

General Motors seeks a senior embedded systems engineer to shape the OS foundation for software-defined vehicles. You will own hypervisor and VM capabilities, enable guest operating systems across Yocto, Android, and QNX, and drive secure boot, resource governance, and fault handling in a highly crafted, safety-conscious environment.

You’ll lead debugging across hardware, firmware, and silicon, improve CI/CD processes, and mentor engineers across silicon enablement and BSP teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field; or equivalent practical experience.
• Ten+ years of professional embedded/kernel-level software development in automotive or similar complex domains.
• Experience with Arm-based SoCs, hypervisor integration, VM configuration, and device virtualization.
• Real-time OS and deterministic scheduling; Linux kernel subsystems and bootstart sequencing.
• Yocto or similar embedded build systems; strong debugging and performance know-how.
• GCC/C/C++, Python and shell scripting for automation.

Responsibilities

• Own hypervisor and VM capabilities including definitions, partitioning, device passthrough, and virtio models.
• Design and optimize communication between VMs using shared memory and virtual I/O for throughput and latency.
• Enable guest OS support across embedded Linux variants (Yocto, Android, QNX) with platform services access.
• Implement boot/secure-boot chain across partitions with startup sequencing and integrity checks.
• Build and maintain platform services for resource governance, health monitoring, and fault handling.
• Develop container-runtime and workload management for in-vehicle apps including isolation and updates.
• Profile and debug CPU/memory/I/O and interrupt behavior across the stack.
• Lead root-cause analysis with traces/logs across guest OS, hypervisor, firmware, and silicon.

Skills

Hypervisor integration

Virtual machine configuration

Device virtualization

Real-time OS & deterministic timing

Linux kernel subsystems

Bootloaders & secure boot

Yocto / embedded build systems

C and C++

Python & shell scripting

Technical leadership

Clear communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/EE/CE or equivalent

Tools

Git

GitHub

CI/CD pipelines

Automated testing

Release engineering

Job description

General Motors seeks a senior embedded systems engineer to shape the OS foundation for software-defined vehicles. You will own hypervisor and VM capabilities, enable guest operating systems across Yocto, Android, and QNX, and drive secure boot, resource governance, and fault handling in a highly crafted, safety-conscious environment.

You’ll lead debugging across hardware, firmware, and silicon, improve CI/CD processes, and mentor engineers across silicon enablement and BSP teams.