Staff Software Engineer: Embedded Platform & CI/CD Leader

General Motors Company; Warren (MI); Hybrid; USD 171,000 - 289,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing benefits

GM vehicle discounts

Tuition assistance programs

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 requires turning cross-team challenges into durable architecture, standards, and measurable improvements in engineering effectiveness and product quality.

You will lead a major capability across multiple teams, influence technical direction beyond your organization, and connect software,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in software engineering or equivalent experience.
• 10 years of experience in software development.
• Deep understanding of software architecture for real time systems.
• Experience shipping high quality safety critical products.
• 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.
• Deep Kubernetes knowledge including cluster operations.
• Strong Terraform/IaC experience with production-grade module design.
• Experience with embedded or simulation workflows (vECUs, SIL, FMU, SSP).
• Cloud architecture experience across AWS, Azure, or GCP.

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 theteam to execute what is required to achieve.
• Maintain command skills and empathy at the same time.
• Architect enterprise-scale CI/CD systems for embedded, simulation, and cloud workloads.
• Define branching, release, and quality-gate standards across multiple engineering domains.
• Design GitOps-based delivery for multi-cluster Kubernetes environments.
• Lead progressive delivery strategy including automated rollback and analysis.
• Establish IaC architecture using Terraform modules and multi-environment patterns.
• Integrate security and compliance into pipelines and artifact flows.
• Define observability standards for pipelines, simulation workloads, and runtime systems.
• Mentor DevOps and simulation developers across the organization.

Skills

Leadership

Problem solving

Communication

Architectural thinking

Multitasking

Decision making

Mentoring

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform/IaC

AWS

Azure

GCP

vECU/SIL

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 requires turning cross-team challenges into durable architecture, standards, and measurable improvements in engineering effectiveness and product quality.

You will lead a major capability across multiple teams, influence technical direction beyond your organization, and connect software,