Staff Software Engineer - Virtualization

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

Work Arrangement

This role is based remotely, but if the candidate lives within a 50 miles radius of a GM hub, they will be expected to report to the location three times a week (or other frequency dictated by your manager).

The Role

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. The successful candidate will lead a major capability across multiple teams, influence technical direction beyond their immediate organization, and connect software, tooling, infrastructure, test, and release activities into a coherent engineering system.

What You'll Do

• 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.

Your Skills and Abilities (Required 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.

What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

• Master's degree in software engineering or equivalent experience.
• 15 years of experience in software development.
• Experience in automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, or another embedded, real‑time, regulated, or safety‑critical environment.
• Knowledge of functional safety, ISO 26262, cybersecurity engineering, ASPICE, MISRA, AUTOSAR, or related engineering practices.
• Experience with virtual and hardware‑based validation, including SIL, CoSIM, vECU, HIL, benches, or system‑level testing.
• Experience establishing platform products, reusable templates, developer self‑service, engineering standards, or reliability objectives.

Company Vehicle

Upon successful completion of a motor vehicle report review, you will be eligible to participate in a company vehicle evaluation program, though which you will be assigned a General Motors vehicle to drive and evaluate. Note: program participants are required to purchase/lease a qualifying GM vehicle every four years unless one of a limited number of exceptions applies.

Compensation

Compensation: The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance with applicable state laws. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position, as well as geography of the selected candidate. The Salary Range: Salary range for this role is 171,150 and 288,500. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.

Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• Health Savings Account
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• retirement savings plan
• sickness and accident benefits
• life insurance
• paid vacation & holidays
• tuition assistance programs
• employee assistance program
• GM vehicle discounts
• and more

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