Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Description

Role overview:

We are looking for a Senior Embedded Software Engineer with strong Linux experience and a track record of making systems more performant and efficient. In this role you will:

• Design, implement, and optimize embedded Linux software on automotive compute platforms
• Analyze and improve system level performance, focusing on boot time, latency, throughput, and resource utilization
• Work across kernel, middleware, and user space services to deliver measurable improvements
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to diagnose complex issues on real hardware and in test environments

This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys diving into traces, profiles, and logs to find root causes and ship practical fixes.

Key responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain components for GM's internal Linux platform (services, daemons, libraries, and supporting tools)
• Own performance focused engineering workstreams such as:

• Boot time analysis and optimization
• CPU, memory, and I/O profiling and tuning
• Contention, scheduling, and priority management
• Start up and shutdown sequencing and dependency optimization

Use profiling and tracing tools to identify and resolve bottlenecks

Contribute to the design of system architecture and resource management strategies on GM's vehicle compute platforms

Collaborate with platform, hardware, and application teams to bring up new boards and SoCs and validate performance on target hardware

Improve observability through logging, metrics, and diagnostics to support performance and stability work

Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and mentoring of other engineers

Basic qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of experience developing software for embedded Linux systems
• Strong proficiency in C or C++ in a production environment
• Solid understanding of Linux internals such as processes, threads, scheduling, memory management, and I/O
• Hands on experience with performance analysis and optimization on Linux (profilers, tracers, benchmarks, custom measurement tools)
• Experience writing system level code such as daemons, services, or low level libraries
• Comfortable working with common build and integration tooling (e.g. CMake, Yocto or similar build systems, CI pipelines)

What will give you a competitive edge:

• Experience working with Yocto based distributions and build systems
• Experience working with hypervisors and multiple VM's
• Background optimizing boot time and runtime performance on resource constrained or real time adjacent systems
• Experience with systemd, D-Bus, and common Linux userspace components
• Familiarity with multi core SoC architectures, hardware bring up, and working with board support packages
• Experience in automotive, safety critical, or other high reliability domains
• Experience with modern C++ and tooling (modern robust coding standards and static analysis)

What we are looking for:

• Strong debugging skills and a systematic approach to understanding complex system behavior
• Ability to translate ambiguous performance issues into clear hypotheses, experiments, and concrete fixes
• Comfort collaborating in a cross functional environment with platform, hardware, and application teams
• Ownership mindset and a bias toward delivering measurable improvements in system performance and reliability

Compensation: The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance with applicable state laws. The compensation may not be representative for positions located outside of the California Bay Area.

The salary range for this role is 163,000 and 203,000. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.

Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.

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.

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.

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Client-provided location(s): Mountain View, CA

Job ID: General_Motors-JR-202603701

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2026-03-11T00:00:45