Principal Software Engineer - Virtualization
General Motors19 hours ago
Base Salary
$171k - $289k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead software engineering productivity, effectiveness, and high-impact technical initiatives across multiple teams.
- Architect enterprise-scale CI/CD systems for embedded, simulation, and cloud workloads.
- Define branching, release, quality-gate, and engineering standards across multiple domains.
- Design GitOps-based delivery for multi-cluster Kubernetes environments.
- Lead progressive delivery strategies with automated rollback and analysis.
- Establish Terraform-based IaC architecture using production-grade 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 and coach technical teams across the organization.
- Connect cross-team initiatives, resolve complex problems, and drive measurable improvements in engineering effectiveness, release confidence, and product quality.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in software engineering or equivalent experience.
- 12+ years of experience in software development.
- Deep understanding of software architecture for real-time systems and experience shipping high-quality safety-critical products.
- Deep Kubernetes knowledge, including cluster operations.
- Strong Terraform and IaC experience with production-grade module design.
- Experience with embedded or simulation workflows, including vECUs, SIL, FMU, or SSP.
- Cloud architecture experience across AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Exceptional problem-solving, analytical, communication, coaching, mentoring, prioritization, and decision-making abilities.
- Preferred: master's or advanced degree in software engineering or a related technical field.
- Preferred: 15+ years of software development experience.
- Preferred: experience in automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, embedded, real-time, regulated, 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 using SIL, CoSIM, vECU, HIL, benches, physical systems, or other virtual and hardware-based environments.
- Preferred: experience creating enterprise standards, platform strategies, technical communities, developer self-service, reliability objectives, or measurable productivity improvements.
Benefits
- Remote role; candidates within 50 miles of a GM hub are expected to report onsite three times per week or at another manager-directed frequency.
- Eligibility for GM's company vehicle evaluation program after successful motor vehicle report review, with program participants generally required to purchase or lease a qualifying GM vehicle every four years unless an exception applies.
- Health, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Account, retirement savings, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation and holidays, tuition assistance, employee assistance, and GM vehicle discounts.
- Bonus potential through an incentive pay program based on company performance, 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.