Senior MCU Performance Engineer – Embedded Hardware

generalmotors; Warren (MI); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing benefits

GM employee discounts

Tuition assistance

Job summary

General Motors seeks a Senior Hardware Engineer – MCU Performance Analysis to lead the definition, development, and execution of MCU performance strategies for state‑of‑the‑art microcontroller solutions in automotive electronics platforms.

You will model, simulate, and measure MCU performance, correlating workloads and benchmarks to system requirements, while partnering with hardware, ECU, and software teams to meet real‑time targets and power constraints.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in 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 (for example, Python, C/C++, or similar scripting environments).
• Experience in workload and benchmark selection, analysis, and development.

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

Profiling

Python scripting

C/C++

Benchmarking

Automation tooling

Education

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

Master’s degree (preferred) in Electrical/Computer Engineering or related field

Tools

Python

C/C++

Job description

General Motors seeks a Senior Hardware Engineer – MCU Performance Analysis to lead the definition, development, and execution of MCU performance strategies for state‑of‑the‑art microcontroller solutions in automotive electronics platforms.

You will model, simulate, and measure MCU performance, correlating workloads and benchmarks to system requirements, while partnering with hardware, ECU, and software teams to meet real‑time targets and power constraints.