Principal Software Engineer - Embedded Software Platform
General Motors22 hours ago
Base Salary
$226k - $407k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define future-state architecture, multi-year roadmaps, principles, standards, governance, and decision rights for embedded software platform domains.
- Resolve cross-domain technical risks involving architecture, quality, security, reliability, cost, scalability, and delivery continuity.
- Establish strategies for virtual development, CI and quality gating, embedded test systems, or build-system modernization.
- Advise senior and executive leadership on investment choices, program risk, platform health, and technical tradeoffs.
- Sponsor scalable platform capabilities, automation, data models, and self-service experiences that improve engineering outcomes.
- Convene architecture reviews and technical communities across engineering, validation, cloud, cybersecurity, quality, program management, and suppliers.
- Define success measures and use evidence to prioritize improvements and verify impact.
- Mentor staff- and principal-level engineers and strengthen the technical leadership pipeline.
- Represent GM technical direction with internal and external partners while maintaining standards for safety, quality, security, and customer impact.
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 without direct authority and exceptional judgment in ambiguous, high-consequence decisions.
- Strong experience with production engineering platforms, software delivery systems, or engineering productivity capabilities.
- Proficiency in Python and at least one additional language used in software or engineering-tooling environments.
- Significant depth in at least one specialization area and sufficient breadth to connect it to the others.
- Experience with embedded software, Linux, Git, cloud platforms, infrastructure as code, test automation, artifact management, data, APIs, or platform reliability as applicable to the specialization.
- Preferred experience in automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, regulated, embedded, real-time, or safety-critical 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 and a record of creating enterprise standards, platform strategies, technical communities, developer self-service, reliability objectives, or measurable productivity improvements are preferred.
Benefits
- Remote work is available, with reporting to a GM hub three times per week or at another manager-determined frequency for candidates within the specified radius.
- Travel is required for less than 25% of the role.
- The role may be eligible for relocation benefits.
- Benefits include medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings, sickness and accident coverage, life insurance, paid vacation and holidays, tuition assistance, employee assistance, and GM vehicle discounts.
- Eligible employees may participate in a company vehicle evaluation program after a motor vehicle report review; participants generally must purchase or lease a qualifying GM vehicle every four years.
About General Motors
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