General Motors

Staff Embedded Software Engineering - Virtualization Tooling

General Motors • $120K — $150K *
Seattle, WA 98115Hybrid
Technical Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Yesterday
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field or equivalent work experience.
  • 4+ years of professional software engineering experience with a focus on production systems.
  • Strong proficiency in at least one native programming language (C, C++, Rust).
  • Experience in automating testing for low-level, embedded, or mobile products at scale.
  • Proven ability to thrive in high-ambiguity scenarios as part of a collaborative team.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the technical strategy and architecture for virtual tooling and emulator capabilities.
  • Translate complex problems into scalable solutions and production-quality implementations.
  • Drive the creation of reusable frameworks and platform services to enhance developer productivity.
  • Facilitate the adoption of virtual testing across development workflows and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align priorities and enhance engineering impact.
  • Uphold high standards in software design, testing, and operational readiness.
  • Conduct technical investigations for integration and scaling challenges.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work environment with flexible in-office requirements.
  • Potential eligibility for relocation assistance.
Full Job Description
Job Description

The Role:

As Software Engineer on the Virtual Test Platforms team, you will help to define, implement, 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 developer in Virtual Test Platforms, you will help to shape the approach, and methods for using virtual test techniques at GM while also making significant contributions to the engineering system codebase. You will provide feedback, and assistance to your teammates helping everyone to achieve more. You will be expected to grow into a subject matter expert in virtualized testing of distributed embedded systems and share that knowledge with others. In short, you will help to improve the state of the art in virtual test of hardware and software at GM.

Key Responsibilities
  • Lead the technical strategy, architecture, and delivery of Virtual Tooling, emulator capabilities, simulation components, and supporting infrastructure used across multiple engineering organizations.
  • Own highly complex, ambiguous problem spaces and translate them into scalable technical direction, pragmatic roadmaps, system designs, and production-quality implementations.
  • Define and drive reusable frameworks, reference implementations, and platform services that materially improve developer productivity, test coverage, reliability, and time to feedback.
  • Drive adoption of virtual test capabilities across developer inner-loop workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and large-scale automated validation systems through both technical execution and cross-functional influence.
  • Partner with product managers, technical leaders, SREs, and customer engineering teams to align priorities, remove adoption barriers, and deliver capabilities with measurable engineering impact.
  • Set and uphold a high bar for software design, testing, observability, performance, maintainability, security, and operational readiness across the platform.
  • Lead technical investigations and root-cause analysis for difficult platform, scaling, fidelity, or integration issues spanning software, infrastructure, and test environments.
  • Mentor and grow engineers across levels through design reviews, technical guidance, coaching, and example-setting; help strengthen domain expertise and engineering judgment across the team.
  • Influence technical direction across organizational boundaries by identifying strategic gaps, proposing investments, and building alignment on long-term platform priorities.
  • Contribute hands-on code, prototypes, and proof-of-concepts in high-risk, foundational, or fast-moving areas where senior technical judgment is critical.
  • Create clear technical documentation, guidance, and best practices that enable broad, sustainable adoption and consistent engineering execution across the community.
  • Configure and customize virtual test environments including KVM, QEMU, and Android Emulators, and make these environments widely available using cloud services.
  • Help product teams integrate the virtual test environments into their developer inner-loop and CI/CD processes.
  • Author virtual devices to enhance virtual test coverage and fidelity including VirtIO Drivers.
  • Implement other custom test tools and simulators to enable higher test throughput and achieve quality faster.
  • Enhance collection, parsing, and reporting, of test results via reports and dashboards
  • Write production-quality code, prototypes, and reference implementations that unblock teams and demonstrate best practices.
  • Create and maintain reusable guidance, examples, and documentation that scale knowledge across GM's engineering community.


Minimum Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field OR equivalent work experience.
  • 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a focus on building and operating production systems.
  • Strong proficiency in at least one native programming language including C, C++ Rust, and a willingness to learn others.
  • Experience automating testing of low level, embedded or mobile products at scale.
  • Demonstrated ability to deliver smoothly and quickly as part of a team in an area with high ambiguity.


Preferred Qualifications
  • Masters Computer Science or Computer Engineering.
  • 7+ years of professional software engineering experience in systems, embedded, or mobile.
  • Experience configuring and customizing Emulators for test including QEMU or Android Emulators and VirtIO drivers.


GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply for this role if you will need GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future. This includes direct company sponsorship, entry of GM as the immigration employer of record on a government form, and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g., H1-B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc).This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location at least 3 times a week {or other frequency dictated by their manager}.This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.

About General Motors

General Motors Company engages in the manufacture and sale of cars and trucks in the United States, China, Brazil, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Italy. It offers sedans, crossovers, sport utility vehicles, pick-up trucks, coupes, sports/convertibles and hybrid vehicles, hatchbacks/wagons, and vans, as well as mini cars in India. The company also provides parts and accessories, such as iPod and MP3 compatibility, mobility accessories, performance parts, AC parts and services, and merchandise. In addition, it offers vehicle safety, security, and information services. The company provides used vehicles. It offers its products through dealers and distributors. General Motors Company was formerly known as NGMCO, Inc. and changed its name to General Motors Company in July 2009. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Detroit, Michigan. It operates manufacturing facilities in India, the United States, and Canada. General Motors Company operates as a subsidiary of the United States Department of The Treasury. General Motors led global vehicle sales for 77 consecutive years from 1931 through 2007, longer than any other automaker, and is currently among the world's largest automakers by vehicle unit sales. General Motors acts in most countries outside the USA via wholly-owned subsidiaries but operates in China through 10 joint ventures. GM's OnStar subsidiary provides vehicle safety, security, and information services. In 2009, General Motors shed several brands, closing Saturn, Pontiac, and Hummer, and emerged from a government-backed Chapter 11 reorganization. In 2010, GM made an initial public offering IPOs to date and returned to profitability later that year.

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Size
157,000 employees
Market Cap
$46.9 billion
Industry
Manufacturing & Automotive
Net Income
$6.4 billion
Founded
1908
5 Year Trend
-3.2%
Revenue
$122.4 billion
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