Staff Systems Engineer – Core Platform

General Motors

Staff Systems Engineer at GM building cloud-native platform for automotive test hardware. Designing integration tooling in Go and collaborating with embedded teams.

Posted 4/30/2026full-timeMountain View • California, Missouri, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $160,200 - $263,700 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudConsulGoGrafanaLinuxPostgresPrometheus

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and build integration tooling and agent services in Go that connect automotive test hardware to the platform's cloud-native control plane, enabling automated hardware discovery, state reporting, and lifecycle management.
Develop provisioning workflows that coordinate firmware flashing, health checks, power cycling, and resource validation across diverse bench configurations, working with existing vendor tools and automotive protocols.
Engage with embedded engineering teams and bench users to understand their hardware workflows, identify pain points, and translate those findings into platform features and automation tooling.
Build hardware abstraction layers that present heterogeneous bench hardware (varying ECU configurations, communication interfaces, firmware versions) as clean, allocatable resources to the platform's scheduler and API.
Contribute to core platform services in Go including the API, scheduler, and CLI tooling, bringing a hardware-aware perspective to architecture and design decisions.
Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for firmware build automation, integration testing, and deployment workflows that span both platform services and hardware-facing components.
Document hardware integration patterns, protocol quirks, and operational knowledge to build institutional understanding across the team.
Collaborate with stakeholders across Infrastructure Engineering, Quality Engineering, and Hardware Infrastructure to define integration requirements, validate platform capabilities against real-world bench workflows, and drive adoption.
Work with tools and technologies including Go, PostgreSQL, Nomad, Consul, Linux system interfaces, automotive communication protocols (CAN, Ethernet, serial), CI/CD pipelines, observability frameworks (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog), and Git/GitHub.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
8+ years of software engineering experience with a strong foundation in systems-level programming and infrastructure development.
Strong proficiency in Go, with the ability to write clean, maintainable production code for backend services and systems tooling.
Solid understanding of Linux systems including system interfaces, process management, networking, and service management (systemd).
Experience building integration tooling, agent services, or automation frameworks that bridge hardware and software systems.
Familiarity with embedded systems concepts including firmware management, boot processes, hardware interfaces (CAN, SPI, I2C, UART, Ethernet), and device lifecycle management.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines, build automation, and deployment workflows for systems that include hardware-in-the-loop or physical device dependencies.
Strong troubleshooting skills across hardware, software, and integration layers with a systematic debugging methodology.
Ability to work across team boundaries, engage with stakeholders who have different technical vocabularies, and translate hardware requirements into platform features.
Strong communication and documentation skills with the ability to capture and share integration knowledge across teams.
Ownership mentality and comfort working on a small, greenfield team where everyone contributes across the stack.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

GoLinux systemsCI/CD pipelinesintegration toolingautomation frameworksfirmware managementtroubleshootingsystems-level programmingbackend serviceshardware abstraction

Soft Skills

communication skillsdocumentation skillstroubleshooting skillscollaborationownership mentalityengagement with stakeholderssystematic debugging methodologyability to translate requirementsinterpersonal skillsorganizational skills

Certifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer ScienceBachelor's degree in Computer EngineeringBachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering