Principal Software Engineer - Vehicle Test Platforms
About The Position
The Role: As a Principal Software Engineer on the Virtual Test Platforms team, you will help to define, specify, validate, architect, develop, build, verify, deploy, and support a variety of virtualization technology related products and services to accelerate development of new vehicles and support existing ones while increasing quality, reliability, security, and diagnosability. You will do this in cooperation with teams and engineers across GM who deliver their code across a wide variety of embedded systems from small low-level controllers to large infotainment units and beyond. As a technical leader in Virtual Test Platforms, you will help to shape the approach, architecture, and methods while also making significant contributions to the codebase as an individual contributor. You will provide mentoring, feedback, and assistance to your teammates helping everyone to achieve more. As a subject matter expert in virtualized testing of distributed systems, you will help to improve the state of the art in virtual test of hardware and software at GM. What You’ll Do Deliver high-impact, high-ROI technical solutions for highly automated and highly scaled virtualized testing for GM products and services. Write production-quality code, prototypes, and reference implementations that unblock teams and demonstrate best practices. Partner with product, platform, and security teams through design reviews, feedback sessions, and brainstorming with a focus on testing and validation. Mentor and coach ICs, helping them navigate complex technical decisions and grow as senior engineers. Create and maintain reusable guidance, examples, and documentation that scale knowledge across GM’s engineering community.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a focus on building and operating production systems.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field OR equivalent work experience.
- Proven experience leading complex, cross-team technical initiatives as a staff or principal-level engineer.
- Strong proficiency in at least one of Java, Go, or C/C++ and willingness to learn others as needed.
- Deep understanding of software architecture and design principles, including distributed systems, scalability, and reliability.
- Demonstrated ability to influence without authority, build strong partnerships, and communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s or PhD in Computer Science or Computer Engineering.
- Hands-on experience evolving existing large-scale, distributed, or event-driven systems.
- Demonstrated expertise in low-level or embedded software at the hardware/software boundary.
- Familiarity with security, reliability, and cost-optimization best practices in cloud-native environments.
- Demonstrated success driving cultural or process improvements (e.g., testing practices, observability, CI/CD, documentation).
Responsibilities
- Deliver high-impact, high-ROI technical solutions for highly automated and highly scaled virtualized testing for GM products and services.
- Write production-quality code, prototypes, and reference implementations that unblock teams and demonstrate best practices.
- Partner with product, platform, and security teams through design reviews, feedback sessions, and brainstorming with a focus on testing and validation.
- Mentor and coach ICs, helping them navigate complex technical decisions and grow as senior engineers.
- Create and maintain reusable guidance, examples, and documentation that scale knowledge across GM’s engineering community.
Benefits
- GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs. Benefit options include 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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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
