Staff Software Engineer: Embedded Systems & Test Platform

General Motors Africa & Middle East; Brighton Charter Township (MI); On-site; USD 189,000 - 291,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Health Savings Account

Retirement savings plan

GM vehicle discounts

Paid vacation & holidays

Tuition assistance

Employee assistance program

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to shape and scale embedded software platforms for software-defined vehicles. This hands-on leader will drive cross-team architecture, standards, and measurable improvements in engineering effectiveness, release confidence, and product quality.

You will lead a major capability across multiple teams, connect software, tooling, test and release activities into a coherent engineering system, and modernize large-scale embedded test infrastructure

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, software engineering, systems engineering or a related technical field; or equivalent practical experience.

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.
• Measures of Success: Faster, more reliable test deployment and execution; more efficient regression testing through accurate change-impact analysis; standardized, traceable test results accessible through Databricks and documented APIs; faster failure identification, triage, and resolution; clear test applicability across software, hardware, configuration, and platform variants.

Skills

Embedded systems

Linux

Git

Python

Bash

Robot Framework

Containers

Infrastructure as code

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, software engineering, systems engineering or a related technical field

Tools

Databricks

Git

Robot Framework

Job description

General Motors is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to shape and scale embedded software platforms for software-defined vehicles. This hands-on leader will drive cross-team architecture, standards, and measurable improvements in engineering effectiveness, release confidence, and product quality.

You will lead a major capability across multiple teams, connect software, tooling, test and release activities into a coherent engineering system, and modernize large-scale embedded test infrastructure