Senior Software Engineering Manager, Core OS — Vehicle Compute

The Role  

The Vehicle Experiences Engine (VEE) at GM is transforming how millions of people interact with their vehicles. At the foundation of that transformation is the Core OS group — the team that builds the high-performance operating-system foundation on which GM's next generation of vehicle software runs. Our work spans hypervisors and virtualization, safety and health management, containerization, and the core OS services that let multiple operating systems — Linux, Android, and QNX — share a single high-compute platform safely and efficiently.  
  

As Senior Software Engineering Manager, Core OS, you will build this team from the ground up. You'll define the charter, hire the founding engineers, set the architecture, and establish how the Core OS layer interfaces with the silicon, guest OS, and vehicle program teams around it. You will be accountable for both standing up the team and delivering its first production milestones.  

This is a defining opportunity to shape the future of software-defined mobility: the platform your organization builds determines the computing efficiency, responsiveness, scalability, reliability of every experience layered on top of it, and across every vehicle program that ships on it — and makes GM's vehicles smarter, safer, and continuously upgradeable.  

What You’ll Do: 

• Lead and grow a high-performing engineering organization of senior engineers and engineering leaders, fostering technical excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement.  

• Own the roadmap and delivery of the core OS layer: hypervisor and virtualization, virtual machine lifecycle and resource partitioning, inter-VM communication, and the boot and secure-boot chain.  

• Deliver the safety-relevant foundation of the compute platform — freedom from interference between partitions, health monitoring, fault detection, and recovery — in partnership with functional safety and cybersecurity teams.  

• Establish on-vehicle container and workload management, including runtime isolation, lifecycle management, resource governance, and updateability of platform workloads.  

• Enable multiple guest operating systems — embedded Linux (Yocto), Android, and QNX — on shared compute, with consistent platform services, interfaces, and tooling across all of them.  

• Set and drive platform KPIs for compute efficiency, responsiveness, startup and boot time, memory footprint, scalability, and reliability.  

• Drive cross-functional collaboration with BSP and silicon enablement, application platform, cybersecurity, functional safety, and vehicle program teams to ensure seamless integration.  

• Build strong vendor and ecosystem partnerships — including silicon, RTOS, and hypervisor suppliers — and engage with relevant open-source and industry communities.  

• Ensure program execution excellence by tracking progress against vehicle milestones, managing risk, and partnering closely with program management.  

Your Skills and Abilities (Required Qualifications) 

• 10+ years of professional experience building embedded or systems software, with a strong foundation in operating system internals, virtualization, or real-time systems.  

• 5+ years of engineering leadership experience, including leading senior engineers and managers, with a proven record of scaling teams and delivering results.  

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or related fields. 

• Demonstrated success delivering production-grade OS or platform software on modern SoC-based or embedded systems.  

• Demonstrated effectiveness in ambiguous, early-stage environments — defining scope, establishing interfaces with adjacent organizations, and making architectural commitments with incomplete information  

• Depth in at least one of: type-1 hypervisors and virtualization, real-time operating systems, or embedded Linux deployed at scale.  

• Proven ability to drive large-scale software programs to completion, including milestone planning, risk management, and cross-team coordination.  

• Strong technical credibility paired with the ability to set vision, influence architecture, and drive execution across multiple teams.  

• Demonstrated excellence in cross-functional leadership, stakeholder management, and executive communication.  

• Proficiency with modern engineering practices — Git/GitHub, CI/CD, automated testing including bench and HIL, boot and performance KPI instrumentation, and large-scale release processes.  

What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications) 

• 12+ years of professional experience building embedded or systems software, with a strong foundation in operating system internals, virtualization, or real-time systems. 

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or related fields.  

• Hands-on background with hypervisor technologies (e.g., Gunyah, QNX Hypervisor, Xen, KVM/ARM) and virtio-based device virtualization, device passthrough, and resource partitioning. 

• Experience delivering software to ISO 26262 functional safety requirements (up to ASIL-D) and ISO/SAE 21434 cybersecurity requirements.  

• Depth in secure boot, trusted execution environments, and platform integrity on modern automotive SoCs. 

• Experience with container runtimes and orchestration in resource-constrained or embedded environments.  

• Familiarity with Yocto Linux, Android (AOSP/Android Automotive), and QNX SDP as guest or host environments.  

• Experience with automotive platform standards and practices — Adaptive AUTOSAR, SOAFEE, OTA and continuous update architectures.  

• Hands-on experience with Qualcomm Automotive SoCs and collaboration with silicon vendors.  

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 actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position, as well as geography of the selected candidate.

• The salary range for this role is (238,700 - 365,700). 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:

• 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.