Senior Embedded Platform Architect — Cross-Domain Tech Leader

Jobtailor; California (MO); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

GM is seeking a senior architect to set multi-year technical direction and target-state architecture for cross-domain engineering platforms, with emphasis on embedded and real-time software. You will influence leaders, mentor engineers, and balance safety-critical requirements with business needs.

The role involves defining roadmaps, governing standards, and leading cross-functional reviews with engineering, validation, cloud, cybersecurity, and suppliers. Travel up to 25% is expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a technical field.
• 15+ years of software architecture experience across organizations.
• Deep understanding of embedded and real-time software architecture.
• Proven track record delivering safety-critical or mission-critical products.
• Ability to align leaders and teams without direct authority.
• Excellent judgment in high-consequence technical decisions.
• Ability to communicate tradeoffs to technical and executive audiences.
• Experience with production engineering platforms, software delivery systems, or engineering productivity.
• Experience with Python and at least one other language in software/tooling.
• Specialization plus breadth across domains.
• Experience with embedded software, Linux, Git, CI/CD, cloud, IaC, test automation, APIs, platform reliability.
• Experience in virtualization and CI infrastructure, build-system/test-system modernization.
• Preferred industries: automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, safety-critical environments.
• Knowledge of functional safety ISO 26262, ASPICE, MISRA, AUTOSAR.
• Vehicle-level integration and validation (SIL, CoSIM, vECU, HIL)

Responsibilities

• Set multi-year technical direction and target-state architecture for cross-domain engineering platform capabilities.
• Identify systemic constraints and define strategy, investment priorities, and sequencing across the software lifecycle.
• Resolve architectural tradeoffs spanning organizations, product lines, suppliers, technology stacks, and delivery cadences.
• Establish enterprise principles, standards, governance, reliability expectations, and decision frameworks.
• Create leverage through platforms, automation, reusable patterns, data, and operating models.
• Influence senior and executive leaders with recommendations grounded in technical judgment, risk, cost, quality, and business impact.
• Lead through other technical leaders by developing principal and staff engineers and strengthening communities of practice.
• Remain selectively hands-on in high-value or high-risk technical problems.
• Define future-state architecture and multi-year roadmap for the assigned domain.
• Establish decision rights and alignment across independent teams and delivery organizations.
• Lead resolution of cross-domain risks involving architecture, quality, security, reliability, cost, scalability, and delivery continuity.
• Advise senior and executive leadership on investments, program risk, platform health, and enterprise tradeoffs.
• Convene architecture reviews and technical communities across engineering, validation, cloud, cybersecurity, quality, program management, and suppliers.
• Sponsor platform capabilities, automation, data models, and self-service experiences.
• Define success measures and use evidence to prioritize improvements and verify impact.
• Mentor staff- and principal-level engineers and strengthen the technical leadership pipeline.
• Represent GM’s technical direction with internal and external partners.
• Travel less than 25%

Skills

Embedded Software

Real-Time Architecture

Python Proficiency

Software Delivery Systems

CI/CD

Linux

Git

Cloud Platforms

Engineering Leadership

Technical Influence Across Teams

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Virtualization

CI Infrastructure

Build-System Modernization

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

GM is seeking a senior architect to set multi-year technical direction and target-state architecture for cross-domain engineering platforms, with emphasis on embedded and real-time software. You will influence leaders, mentor engineers, and balance safety-critical requirements with business needs.

The role involves defining roadmaps, governing standards, and leading cross-functional reviews with engineering, validation, cloud, cybersecurity, and suppliers. Travel up to 25% is expected.