Principal Software Engineer - Virtualization

General Motors is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to shape and scale engineering platforms for building, testing, integrating, validating, and delivering embedded software for software-defined vehicles. The role leads cross-team technical direction and high-impact platform efforts, including enterprise CI/CD, release standards, Kubernetes delivery, infrastructure as code, security, compliance, and observability.

Responsibilities:

• Be a critical leader of software engineering productivity and effectiveness
• Identify opportunities, strategies, process improvements, and lead the change
• Be hands-on by leading high impact efforts
• Be a strong communicator, coach, and mentor
• Analyze unusual and difficult problems effectively
• Ability to connect multiple initiatives together to deliver higher value
• Visualize required innovation, learning and simplification in this space and transition the team to execute what is required to achieve
• Maintain command skills and empathy at the same time
• Architect enterprise‑scale CI/CD systems for embedded, simulation, and cloud workloads
• Define branching, release, and quality‑gate standards across multiple engineering domains
• Design GitOps‑based delivery for multi‑cluster Kubernetes environments
• Lead progressive delivery strategy including automated rollback and analysis
• Establish IaC architecture using Terraform 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 across the organization

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
• Experience shipping high quality safety critical products
• Exceptional problem-solving and analytical abilities, with a keen attention to detail
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Demonstrated ability to work in an action-oriented decision-making environment
• Deep Kubernetes knowledge including cluster operations
• Strong Terraform/IaC experience with production‑grade module design
• Experience with embedded or simulation workflows (vECUs, SIL, FMU, SSP)
• Cloud architecture experience across AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Master's degree in software engineering or equivalent experience
• 15+ years of experience in software development 
• Experience in automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, or another embedded, real-time, regulated, or safety-critical environment
• Knowledge of functional safety, ISO 26262, cybersecurity engineering, ASPICE, MISRA, AUTOSAR, or related engineering practices
• Experience with vehicle-level integration and validation, including SIL, CoSIM, vECU, HIL, benches, physical systems, or other virtual and hardware-based environments
• A record of creating enterprise standards, platform strategies, technical communities, developer self-service, reliability objectives, or measurable productivity improvements
• Advanced degree in a related technical field