Architect enterprise-scale CI/CD platforms for embedded, simulation, and cloud workloads. Define engineering standards for branching, releases, quality gates, GitOps, Kubernetes, progressive delivery, Terraform-based infrastructure, security, compliance, and observability. Lead high-impact productivity initiatives, solve complex technical problems, connect multiple engineering programs, and mentor DevOps and simulation developers. The role focuses on virtualized vehicle software and safety-critical embedded real-time systems.
Description
Vacancy Status:
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 highly skilled and experienced professional to join our team as the Staff Engineer of Software Engineering, Embedded Platform. As a Continuous Integration Developer (Architect Level), you will define the architecture, standards, and strategy for how GM builds, tests, and deploys virtualized vehicle software. You'll leverage your strengths in CI/CD, embedded systems, and automation while expanding into cloud orchestration, IaC, progressive delivery, and data driven simulation. This role is ideal for someone ready to broaden their technical impact and shape the future of GM's virtual development platform. As a global leader in the automotive industry, General Motors is committed to delivering high-quality vehicles that exceed customer expectations. This position will play a critical role in ensuring that our products are on the leading edge of innovation while meeting the highest standards of quality, reliability, and safety, with a specific focus on the embedded real time software for our in-vehicle mechatronic systems.
Specific job responsibilities include:
• 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.
Qualifications/Requirements
• Bachelor's degree in software engineering or equivalent experience
• 15 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.
Compensation:
The salary range for this role is $186,000 to $236,000. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.
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.
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:
About GM
Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.
Why Join Us
We believe we all must make a choice every day - individually and collectively - to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.
Total Rewards | Benefits Overview
From day one, we're looking out for your well-being-at work and at home-so you can focus on realizing your ambitions. Learn how GM supports a rewarding career that rewards you personally by visiting Total Rewards resources.
Non-Discrimination and Equal Employment Opportunities (U.S.)
General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of unlawful discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that providing an inclusive workplace creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers.
All employment decisions are made on a non-discriminatory basis without regard to sex, race, color, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, pregnancy or maternity status, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran or protected veteran, or any other similarly protected status in accordance with federal, state and local laws.
We encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications for each role and apply for any positions that match their skills and capabilities. Applicants in the recruitment process may be required, where applicable, to successfully complete a role-related assessment(s) and/or a pre-employment screening prior to beginning employment. To learn more, visit How we Hire.
Accommodations
General Motors offers opportunities to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email us [email protected] or call us at 1-800-865-7580. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.
Vacancy Status:
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 highly skilled and experienced professional to join our team as the Staff Engineer of Software Engineering, Embedded Platform. As a Continuous Integration Developer (Architect Level), you will define the architecture, standards, and strategy for how GM builds, tests, and deploys virtualized vehicle software. You'll leverage your strengths in CI/CD, embedded systems, and automation while expanding into cloud orchestration, IaC, progressive delivery, and data driven simulation. This role is ideal for someone ready to broaden their technical impact and shape the future of GM's virtual development platform. As a global leader in the automotive industry, General Motors is committed to delivering high-quality vehicles that exceed customer expectations. This position will play a critical role in ensuring that our products are on the leading edge of innovation while meeting the highest standards of quality, reliability, and safety, with a specific focus on the embedded real time software for our in-vehicle mechatronic systems.
Specific job responsibilities include:
• 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.
Qualifications/Requirements
• Bachelor's degree in software engineering or equivalent experience
• 15 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.
Compensation:
The salary range for this role is $186,000 to $236,000. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.
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.
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
About GM
Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.
Why Join Us
We believe we all must make a choice every day - individually and collectively - to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.
Total Rewards | Benefits Overview
From day one, we're looking out for your well-being-at work and at home-so you can focus on realizing your ambitions. Learn how GM supports a rewarding career that rewards you personally by visiting Total Rewards resources.
Non-Discrimination and Equal Employment Opportunities (U.S.)
General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of unlawful discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that providing an inclusive workplace creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers.
All employment decisions are made on a non-discriminatory basis without regard to sex, race, color, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, pregnancy or maternity status, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran or protected veteran, or any other similarly protected status in accordance with federal, state and local laws.
We encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications for each role and apply for any positions that match their skills and capabilities. Applicants in the recruitment process may be required, where applicable, to successfully complete a role-related assessment(s) and/or a pre-employment screening prior to beginning employment. To learn more, visit How we Hire.
Accommodations
General Motors offers opportunities to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email us [email protected] or call us at 1-800-865-7580. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.
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Markham, Ontario, Canada
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