Principal Software Engineer - Embedded Software Platform
General MotorsResponsibilities
- Define future-state architecture, technical direction, and multi-year roadmaps for embedded software platform capabilities.
- Establish enterprise principles, standards, governance, decision rights, reliability expectations, and release policies across organizations.
- Resolve cross-domain technical risks involving architecture, quality, security, reliability, cost, scalability, and delivery continuity.
- Advise senior and executive leadership on investment choices, program risk, platform health, and technical tradeoffs.
- Lead architecture reviews and technical communities spanning engineering, validation, cloud, cybersecurity, quality, program management, and suppliers.
- Sponsor high-leverage platform capabilities, automation, data models, and self-service experiences that improve engineering outcomes at scale.
- Define success measures and use evidence to prioritize improvements and verify impact.
- Mentor staff- and principal-level engineers and strengthen the technical leadership pipeline.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, software engineering, systems engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Typically 15 or more years of experience developing, integrating, deploying, or validating software systems, including substantial cross-organizational architecture leadership.
- Deep understanding of embedded and real-time software architecture and experience delivering high-quality safety-critical or mission-critical products.
- Demonstrated enterprise or multi-organization technical influence and ability to align leaders and teams without direct authority.
- Exceptional judgment in ambiguous, high-consequence technical decisions and ability to communicate complex tradeoffs to technical and executive audiences.
- Strong experience with production engineering platforms, software delivery systems, or engineering productivity capabilities; proficiency in Python and at least one additional software or engineering-tooling language.
- Significant depth in at least one specialization area: virtualization and CI infrastructure, continuous integration and quality gating, test-system modernization, or build-system modernization.
- Experience with applicable embedded software, Linux, Git, CI/CD, cloud platforms, infrastructure as code, test automation, artifact management, data, APIs, or platform reliability systems.
- Preferred experience in automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, regulated, safety-critical, or other embedded real-time environments.
- Preferred knowledge of functional safety, ISO 26262, cybersecurity engineering, ASPICE, MISRA, AUTOSAR, or related engineering practices.
- Preferred experience with vehicle-level integration and validation, including SIL, CoSIM, vECU, HIL, benches, physical systems, or other virtual and hardware-based environments.
- An advanced degree in a related technical field is preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring attendance at the Markham or Oshawa office at least three times per week.
- Paid time off including vacation, holidays, and supplemental pregnancy, parental, and adoption leave benefits.
- Healthcare, dental, and vision benefits.
- Life insurance plans for employees and their families.
- Defined Contribution Pension plan with company matching contributions.
- GM Vehicle Purchase Plan for employees and their families.
About General Motors
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