Staff Software Engineer – Core OS, Vehicle Compute
General Motors1 day ago
Base Salary
$160k - $330k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own hypervisor and virtual machine capabilities, including VM definitions, CPU and memory partitioning, device assignment, passthrough, and virtio-based device models.
- Design and optimize inter-VM communication using shared memory, message passing, and virtualized I/O.
- Enable embedded Linux, Yocto-based distributions, Android, and QNX guest operating systems with platform services and developer tooling.
- Implement and optimize boot and secure-boot chains, startup sequencing, and platform-integrity verification.
- Build resource governance, health monitoring, watchdog, fault detection, fault handling, and recovery services for automotive platforms.
- Develop container-runtime and workload-management capabilities, including isolation, resource limits, lifecycle management, updates, and rollbacks.
- Profile, optimize, and debug CPU, memory, I/O, and interrupt behavior across guests, hypervisors, firmware, and silicon.
- Improve platform engineering quality through CI/CD, hardware-in-the-loop automation, validation, Git and GitHub workflows, and code reviews.
- Mentor engineers and collaborate with silicon enablement, guest OS, BSP, functional safety, and cybersecurity teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 10 years of professional experience in embedded, systems, or kernel-level software development, including production software in automotive or similarly complex embedded domains.
- Deep operating-system-level software expertise on Arm-based SoCs, including experience with areas such as hypervisors, real-time operating systems, Linux kernel subsystems, bootloaders, secure boot, or platform startup sequencing.
- Experience delivering commercial embedded systems using Yocto or comparable embedded build systems.
- Strong experience with system performance, optimization, and debugging across hardware, firmware, hypervisors, kernels, and user space.
- Experience with build systems and development tools including Git, GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and release-quality platform software.
- Strong proficiency in C and C++, plus practical experience with Python and shell scripting.
- Demonstrated technical leadership through architecture contributions, mentoring, design reviews, code reviews, and cross-team execution.
- Preferred: master’s degree in a relevant field.
- Preferred: experience with Gunyah, QNX Hypervisor, Xen, KVM/Arm, virtio, QNX SDP, AOSP, Android Automotive, or Yocto guest environments.
- Preferred: automotive functional safety and cybersecurity experience, including ISO 26262, ASIL, freedom from interference, safety islands, health-monitoring frameworks, and ISO/SAE 21434.
- Preferred: experience with OCI-compliant runtimes, Podman, systemd-based isolation, trusted execution environments, secure-boot chains, key management, Rust, GDB, perf, ftrace, strace, or open-source virtualization and operating-system projects.
Benefits
- Health, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation and holidays, tuition assistance, employee assistance, and GM vehicle discounts.
- The role is hybrid, with expected reporting to a specific location at least three times per week or at a frequency set by the manager.
- The role may be eligible for relocation benefits.
- An incentive pay program may provide bonus payouts based on company, job-level, and individual performance.
About General Motors
General Motors designs, manufactures, and sells cars, trucks, and electric vehicles for consumers and commercial fleets under brands including Chevrolet, GMC, Cadillac, and Buick. A public company on the NYSE headquartered in Detroit and founded in 1908, it operates globally and is developing EVs on its Ultium battery platform. Revenue comes from vehicle and parts sales, connected services such as OnStar, and financing through GM Financial.