This posting is not for an existing vacancy within the organization and is open to new applications.
AI Disclosure:
As part of the application process, Artificial Intelligence will be used in the hiring process for this role
Work Arrangement :
Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Markham or Oshawa office three times per week, at minimum.
The Role:
General Motors is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to shape and scale the engineering platforms that build, test, integrate, validate, and deliver embedded software for software-defined vehicles. This role is for a hands-on technical leader who can turn ambiguous, cross-team problems into durable architecture, practical standards, and measurable improvements in engineering effectiveness, release confidence, and product quality.
The successful candidate will lead a major capability across multiple teams, influence technical direction beyond their immediate organization, and connect software, tooling, infrastructure, test, and release activities into a coherent engineering system. The role may align to one or more of the four specialization areas below.
Expectations and Impact:
Establish reusable patterns, standards, quality controls, and developer experiences that improve consistency and speed across teams.
Make sound architectural decisions in complex embedded, real-time, cloud, simulation, test, and release environments.
Use engineering data and operational signals to prioritize improvements in reliability, feedback time, quality, and developer productivity.
Influence without relying on direct authority; align engineering, validation, cybersecurity, cloud, quality, program, and supplier stakeholders.
Remain hands-on in the most difficult technical problems while enabling others through coaching, mentoring, documentation, and technical leadership.
Communicate tradeoffs, risks, progress, and recommendations clearly to senior engineering and program leaders.
Specialization Areas:
1. Virtualization and CI infrastructure
Define and evolve the platform used to build, test, and deploy virtualized vehicle software across embedded, simulation, and cloud environments. Work may include enterprise CI/CD architecture, GitOps delivery on Kubernetes, Terraform and infrastructure-as-code patterns, progressive delivery and rollback, artifact flows, security and compliance integration, and observability for pipelines and simulation workloads.
Virtualization- specific basic qualifications
2. Continuous integration and quality gating
Architect traceable delivery flows that safely move software and related inputs from pull request through component, system, virtual, physical, and release validation. Work may include GitHub Enterprise workflows, artifact promotion, dependency and configuration management, mainline protection, tiered quality gates, test-evidence policy, embedded and vehicle-level compatibility checks, release readiness, and pipeline-health metrics.
CI-specific basic qualifications
Understanding embedded and vehicle-system integration across ECUs, MCUs, SoCs, containers, networks, configuration, or calibration.
Experience incorporating static analysis, security scanning, coverage, integration testing, simulation, or hardware-based validation into delivery controls.
3. Test-system modernization
Modernize large-scale embedded test systems so standardized, headless, automated testing can run repeatedly across virtual and physical environments. Work may include test execution architecture, configuration and variation management, change-impact analysis, risk-based regression selection, test-result schemas and APIs, Databricks-enabled analytics, diagnostics, failure triage, and integration with CI/CD, test management, and issue-management workflows.
Specialization-specific basic qualifications
Experience modeling test results and integrating test execution with APIs, analytics platforms such as Databricks, diagnostics, or issue-management workflows.
Proficiency with engineering automation tools such as Linux, Git, Python, Bash, Robot Framework, containers, or infrastructure as code.
4. Build-system modernization
Modernize embedded build and test infrastructure by creating scalable, reproducible, secure, and developer-friendly workflows. Work may include transitioning legacy Make or shell orchestration to Bazel, developing reusable rules, macros, toolchains, platforms, and repository standards, migrating firmware and generated code, integrating build systems with CI/CD and release processes, improving caching and parallelism, and evaluating AI-assisted engineering workflows with measurable outcomes.
Build System-specific basic qualifications
Experience in automotive, embedded, safety-related, calibration, or systems-engineering environments.
Experience with embedded cross-compilation, toolchains, generated code, firmware, build reproducibility, or CI/CD integration.
What You’ll Do:
Lead architecture reviews, technical working sessions, design decisions, and cross-functional alignment.
Identify manual handoffs, duplicated work, late integration points, unreliable signals, and other systemic sources of delay or quality escape.
Establish clear ownership, entry and exit criteria, operational expectations, and exception-management practices.
Partner with teams responsible for embedded software, vehicle integration, validation, developer experience, cloud, cybersecurity, artifact management, and program delivery.
Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications):
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.
Strong problem-solving, analytical, communication, and prioritization skills in an action-oriented environment.
Experience with relevant technologies such as Linux, Git, containers, CI/CD, cloud platforms, infrastructure as code, test automation, artifact repositories, or data and API platforms, as applicable to the selected specialization.
What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications):
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 virtual and hardware-based validation, including SIL, CoSIM, vECU, HIL, benches, or system-level testing.
Experience establishing platform products, reusable templates, developer self-service, engineering standards, or reliability objectives.
Measures of Success:
Improved build, test, integration, release, and developer feedback speed without compromising quality.
Measurable gains in release confidence, mainline stability, test effectiveness, and engineering productivity.
Compensation:
The salary range for this role is $147,000 to $196,300. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.
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Benefits Overview
The goal of the General Motors of Canada total rewards program is to support the health and well-being of you and your family. Our comprehensive compensation plan currently includes the following benefits, in addition to many others:
Paid time off including vacation days, holidays, and supplemental benefits for pregnancy, parental and adoption leave;
Healthcare, dental, and vision benefits;
Life insurance plans to cover you and your family;
Company and matching contributions to a Defined Contribution Pension plan to help you save for retirement;
GM Vehicle Purchase Plan for you and your family
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