Staff Software Engineer - Remote, Embedded Platforms & CI/CD

General Motors Africa & Middle East; Brighton Charter Township (MI); Hybrid; USD 171,000 - 289,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Accounts

Retirement savings plan

Life insurance

Paid vacation & holidays

Tuition assistance programs

Employee assistance program

GM vehicle discounts

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. You will lead a major capability across teams, guiding architecture, standards, and measurable improvements in engineering effectiveness and product quality.

The role emphasizes hands‑on leadership, strong communication, mentorship, and the ability to connect software, tooling, infrastructure, test,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in software engineering or equivalent experience.
• 10 years of software development experience.
• Deep understanding of software architecture for real time systems.
• Experience shipping high quality safety critical products.
• Exceptional problem‑solving and analytical abilities with 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 the team 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

Software development

Real-time arch

Problem solving

Leadership

Communication

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree in software engineering or equivalent experience

Master’s degree (preferred)

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform/IaC

vECU/SIL

AWS

Azure

GCP

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. You will lead a major capability across teams, guiding architecture, standards, and measurable improvements in engineering effectiveness and product quality.

The role emphasizes hands‑on leadership, strong communication, mentorship, and the ability to connect software, tooling, infrastructure, test,