Senior Software Engineer — Embedded Test Automation Leader

General Motors Africa & Middle East; Brighton Charter Township (MI); On-site; USD 239,000 - 366,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing benefits

GM vehicle discounts

Job summary

General Motors Africa & Middle East is seeking a senior software engineering leader to drive productivity and modernization of a large-scale embedded test system. You will define standardized automation across virtual and physical environments and connect test execution with management tools.

You will lead architecture across organizations, ship safety-critical software, and push for faster, more reliable regression testing with robust change-impact analysis.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in computer science or related field.
• 15+ years experience validating software systems and leading architecture.
• Deep understanding of software architecture for real time systems.
• Experience shipping safety critical products.
• Experience architecting large-scale CI/CD and embedded test automation.
• Expertise in variation management and risk-based regression testing.
• Experience with test-result data modeling, Databricks, analytics, data mining, and API development.
• Proficiency with embedded systems, Linux, Git, Python, Bash, Robot Framework, containers, and infrastructure as code.
• Ability to integrate automated diagnostics and issue-management workflows.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities.

Responsibilities

• Be a critical leader of software engineering productivity and effectiveness.
• Identify opportunities, strategies, process improvements, and lead the change.
• Be hands-on by leading high impact efforts.
• Be a strong communicator, coach, and mentor.
• Analyze unusual and difficult problems effectively.
• Connect multiple initiatives to deliver higher value.
• Modernize a large-scale embedded software test system.
• Define and modernize a standardized, fully automated, headless framework across virtual and physical environments to enable full-suite testing multiple times per day.
• Maintain command skills and empathy while leading teams.
• Lead improvements across CI/CD pipelines and test environments.

Skills

Leadership

Embedded systems

CI/CD

Python

Robot Framework

Git

Linux

Bash

Containers

Automation

Diagnostics

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelors degree in computer science / related field

Masters degree or PhD preferred

Tools

Databricks

Job description

General Motors Africa & Middle East is seeking a senior software engineering leader to drive productivity and modernization of a large-scale embedded test system. You will define standardized automation across virtual and physical environments and connect test execution with management tools.

You will lead architecture across organizations, ship safety-critical software, and push for faster, more reliable regression testing with robust change-impact analysis.