Staff Embedded Systems Architect & Test Automation Lead

General Motors; United States; Remote; USD 189,000 - 291,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

GM vehicle discounts

Retirement savings plan

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to shape and scale the engineering platforms that build, test, integrate, validate, and deliver embedded software for software‑defined vehicles.

This role is for a hands‑on technical leader who can turn ambiguous, cross‑team problems into durable architecture, practical standards, and measurable improvements in engineering effectiveness, release confidence, and product quality.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, software engineering, systems engineering or a related technical field; or equivalent practical experience.
• Typically, 10 or more years experience validating software systems, including substantial experience leading architecture across organizations.
• Deep understanding of software architecture for real time systems.
• Experience shipping high quality safety critical products.
• Experience architecting large-scale CI/CD, embedded test automation, and build-to-test pipelines.
• Expertise in variation management, configuration comparison, change-impact analysis, 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.
• Demonstrated ability to integrate automated diagnostics and issue-management workflows.
• People Skills: Exceptional problem-solving and analytical abilities, with a keen attention to detail.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated ability to work in an action-oriented decision-making environment.

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.
• Ability to connect multiple initiatives together to deliver higher value.
• Visualize required innovation, learning and simplification in this space and transition the team to execute what is required to achieve.
• Maintain command skills and empathy at the same time.
• Lead the modernization of 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.

Skills

Embedded systems

Linux

Git

Python

Bash

Robot Framework

Containers

Infrastructure as code

APIs

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science / computer engineering / electrical engineering / software engineering / systems engineering or related field

Tools

Databricks

CI/CD pipelines

Test automation

Job description

General Motors is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to shape and scale the engineering platforms that build, test, integrate, validate, and deliver embedded software for software‑defined vehicles.

This role is for a hands‑on technical leader who can turn ambiguous, cross‑team problems into durable architecture, practical standards, and measurable improvements in engineering effectiveness, release confidence, and product quality.