Senior MCU Performance Analyst

Relha LLC; Warren, Northern (MI, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing benefits

GM vehicle discounts

Tuition assistance

Job summary

General Motors seeks a Senior Electrical Hardware Engineer to lead MCU performance analysis for state‑of‑the‑art automotive electronics. You will define workloads, create performance models, and drive optimization across cores, memory, and interconnects while collaborating with hardware and software teams.

You will report to the Semiconductor Center of Excellence in a hybrid role with travel <25% and relocation options. A strong background in real‑time performance and automotive MCU/ECU is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 7+ years of MCU or embedded processor performance analysis, modeling, or embedded systems development.
• Strong understanding of MCU/CPU architecture, including pipelines, caches, memory subsystems, buses/interconnects, peripherals, interrupts, and real‑time constraints.
• Demonstrated experience defining and executing structured performance analysis plans, including definition of objectives, workloads, metrics, and traceability to system requirements.
• Hands‑on experience analyzing and optimizing embedded/MCU‑based systems, including profiling, hotspot analysis, and trade‑offs across performance, power, and memory.
• Experience developing automation, tools, or scripts for performance analysis and data processing (e.g., Python, C/C++, or similar).
• Experience in workload and benchmark selection, analysis, and development.
• Proven ability to conduct feasibility studies evaluating performance metrics, design trade‑offs and presenting solutions that optimize system performance, power and timing.

Responsibilities

• Define MCU performance analysis strategies, including KPIs, workloads, benchmarks, coverage goals, and pass/fail criteria.
• Develop performance and design specifications to support sourcing, architecture trade-offs, and ECU/system decisions.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across cores, memory, interconnects, peripherals, and software stacks.
• Build and maintain MCU performance models to support architectural exploration, sizing studies, and what‑if analyses.
• Select or develop representative workloads and benchmarks for automotive use cases such as real‑time control, diagnostics, safety monitoring, communications, and signal processing.
• Create and maintain automation, tools, and scripts for analysis, data collection, and reporting using Python, C/C++, or similar languages.
• Partner with hardware, ECU, and software teams to translate system requirements into measurable performance targets and test cases.
• Present performance insights, trade‑offs, and recommendations to technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

Skills

MCU performance analysis

Embedded systems

Performance modeling

Python

C/C++

Workloads & benchmarks

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

Master’s degree (preferred)

Tools

Python

C/C++

Job description

General Motors seeks a Senior Electrical Hardware Engineer to lead MCU performance analysis for state‑of‑the‑art automotive electronics. You will define workloads, create performance models, and drive optimization across cores, memory, and interconnects while collaborating with hardware and software teams.

You will report to the Semiconductor Center of Excellence in a hybrid role with travel <25% and relocation options. A strong background in real‑time performance and automotive MCU/ECU is required.