Senior MCU Performance Analyst – Hybrid Auto

General Motors; Warren (MI); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Relocation assistance

GM vehicle discounts

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Senior Hardware Engineer – MCU Performance Analysis to lead MCU performance modeling, benchmarking, and analysis for SDV platforms. You will collaborate with hardware, ECU, and software teams to translate system requirements into measurable performance targets and test cases.

The role emphasizes developing workload definitions, performance targets, and automation to drive insights from concept through production, ensuring real-time, power, and timing requirements are

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 7+ years of MCU/embedded performance analysis or related experience.
• Strong understanding of MCU/CPU architecture, pipelines, caches, memory subsystems, buses/interconnects, peripherals, interrupts, real-time constraints.
• Demonstrated experience defining structured performance analysis plans with objectives, workloads, metrics, and traceability to requirements.
• Hands-on experience profiling, hotspot analysis, and optimizing embedded/MCU-based systems across performance, power, and memory.
• Experience developing automation, tools, or scripts for performance analysis and data processing (e.g., Python, C/C++).
• Experience in workload and benchmark selection, analysis, and development.
• Ability to present performance insights and trade-offs to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define MCU performance analysis strategies with KPIs, workloads, benchmarks, and pass/fail criteria.
• Develop performance specifications to support architecture trade-offs and ECU decisions.
• Identify and resolve bottlenecks across cores, memory, interconnects, peripherals, and software stacks.
• Build MCU performance models for architectural exploration and sizing studies.
• Select or develop workloads/benchmarks for automotive real-time use cases.
• Create automation, tools, and scripts for analysis, data collection, and reporting.

Skills

MCU performance

Embedded systems

CPU architecture

Profiling

Automation

Python

C/C++

Benchmarks

Real-time systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or related field

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Python tooling

Scripting environments

Job description

General Motors is seeking a Senior Hardware Engineer – MCU Performance Analysis to lead MCU performance modeling, benchmarking, and analysis for SDV platforms. You will collaborate with hardware, ECU, and software teams to translate system requirements into measurable performance targets and test cases.

The role emphasizes developing workload definitions, performance targets, and automation to drive insights from concept through production, ensuring real-time, power, and timing requirements are