Staff Software Engineer — Embedded Platforms Leader

General Motors; Warren (MI); On-site; USD 189,000 - 291,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Job summary

General Motors in Warren, MI seeks a Staff Software Engineer to shape and scale engineering platforms for embedded software in software-defined vehicles. You will turn ambiguous cross-team problems into durable architecture and measurable improvements in engineering effectiveness, release confidence, and product quality.

You will lead modernization of test systems, standardize automated frameworks, and drive data-driven quality across CI/CD and test environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, software engineering, or related field; or equivalent practical experience.
• Typically, 10+ 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.

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

Leadership

Problem Solving

Communication

Mentoring

Hands-on

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

10+ years software validation

Tools

Databricks

Robot Framework

Python

Git

Bash

Linux

Containers

IaC

Job description

General Motors in Warren, MI seeks a Staff Software Engineer to shape and scale engineering platforms for embedded software in software-defined vehicles. You will turn ambiguous cross-team problems into durable architecture and measurable improvements in engineering effectiveness, release confidence, and product quality.

You will lead modernization of test systems, standardize automated frameworks, and drive data-driven quality across CI/CD and test environments.