Senior Hardware Engineer – MCU Performance Analysis

General Motors

Senior Hardware Engineer leading the definition, development, and execution of MCU performance analysis strategies for automotive electronics. Collaborating with hardware and software teams to optimize performance and meet real-time requirements.

Posted 6/6/2026full-timeWarren • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Python

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define MCU performance analysis strategies, including KPIs, workloads, benchmarks, coverage goals, and pass/fail criteria.
Develop performance and design specifications to support sourcing, architecture trade-offs, and ECU/system decisions.
Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across cores, memory, interconnects, peripherals, and software stacks.
Build and maintain MCU performance models to support architectural exploration, sizing studies, and what-if analyses.
Select or develop representative workloads and benchmarks for automotive use cases such as real-time control, diagnostics, safety monitoring, communications, and signal processing.
Create and maintain automation, tools, and scripts for analysis, data collection, and reporting using Python, C/C++, or similar languages.
Partner with hardware, ECU, and software teams to translate system requirements into measurable performance targets and test cases.
Present performance insights, trade-offs, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
7+ years of experience in MCU or embedded processor performance analysis, modeling, or embedded systems development.
Strong understanding of MCU/CPU architecture, including pipelines, caches, memory subsystems, buses/interconnects, peripherals, interrupts, and real-time constraints.
Demonstrated experience defining and executing structured performance analysis plans, including definition of objectives, workloads, metrics, and traceability to system requirements.
Hands‑on experience analyzing and optimizing embedded/MCU‑based systems, including profiling, hotspot analysis, and trade‑offs across performance, power, and memory.
Experience developing automation, tools, or scripts for performance analysis and data processing (for example, Python, C/C++, or similar scripting environments).
Experience in workload and benchmark selection, analysis, and development.
Proven ability to conduct feasibility studies evaluating performance metrics, design trade-offs and presenting solutions that optimize system performance, power and timing.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

MCU performance analysisperformance modelingperformance optimizationworkload selectionbenchmark developmentprofilinghotspot analysisperformance metricsdesign trade-offsreal-time control

Soft Skills

communicationcollaborationproblem-solvinganalytical thinkingpresentation skills