Software Manager, AV Platform OS and Drivers

As the Software Engineering Manager for Platform OS and Drivers, you will lead a team responsible for foundational software that powers next-generation vehicle compute platforms. You will balance technical direction, delivery execution, and people leadership to ensure the team delivers robust platform capabilities that downstream product and feature teams can depend on.

You will work across the full platform lifecycle, including architecture, bring-up, integration, debugging, optimization, quality, and long-term maintainability. Success in this role requires strong systems thinking, clear prioritization, and the ability to align teams across hardware and software boundaries.

What You'll Do

Lead and grow a team of software engineers working across Platform OS, BSP, kernel-level software, hardware abstraction layers, and device drivers

Set technical direction and execution priorities for low-level platform software development

Drive platform bring-up activities for new hardware and software releases

Oversee development, integration, and maintenance of drivers for key compute, storage, networking, sensor, and peripheral interfaces

Partner with hardware, silicon, systems, middleware, validation, and program teams to deliver stable platform capabilities on schedule

Establish engineering processes for design reviews, code quality, debugging, root cause analysis, test coverage, and release readiness

Remove roadblocks for the team and manage tradeoffs across schedule, scope, technical risk, and quality

Support architecture decisions that improve portability, scalability, diagnosability, security, and long-term maintainability

Mentor engineers and technical leads, build succession plans, and create a high-performance team culture focused on ownership and continuous improvement

Track program execution through milestones, risks, dependencies, and measurable outcomes

Drive issue resolution for complex system problems spanning software, hardware, integration, and performance

Collaborate with recruiting and leadership to build the organization and attract strong embedded and platform engineering talent

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or work equivalent experience.

8+ years of experience in embedded software, systems software, platform software, or low-level Linux development

2+ years of engineering management or technical team leadership experience

Strong experience with embedded C and C++

Strong understanding of operating systems, kernel concepts, multithreading, memory management, device drivers, and hardware-software interfaces

Experience with Linux, embedded Linux, RTOS, or similar platform environments

Experience with board bring-up, BSP development, driver integration, and system-level debugging

Experience leading cross-functional engineering efforts across hardware and software teams

Strong debugging and root cause analysis skills across complex distributed or embedded systems

Excellent communication, execution, and people leadership skills

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelors degree in a relevant engineering discipline

Experience with automotive, ADAS, autonomy, robotics, or safety-critical embedded systems. or work equivalent experience

Experience with ARM-based SoCs, boot flows, secure boot, power management, and performance optimization

Familiarity with kernel instrumentation, tracing, profiling, and observability tools

Experience with CI/CD, automated test infrastructure, and release management for platform software

Experience leading globally distributed teams

Familiarity with functional safety, cybersecurity, and production-quality software development practices

What Makes You Successful

You can operate effectively at both technical depth and organizational leadership altitude

You know how to build strong teams while maintaining a high bar for engineering quality

You are comfortable making decisions with incomplete information and driving alignment across multiple stakeholders

You translate complex platform challenges into clear priorities, execution plans, and business outcomes

You bring urgency, ownership, and a continuous improvement mindset to platform development

Why Join Us

This is an opportunity to shape the foundational platform software stack that enables scalable vehicle and compute capabilities. You will lead a team working on critical technology at the intersection of operating systems, hardware enablement, and product delivery, with meaningful impact across the broader software platform.

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 New York, Colorado, California, or Washington.

The salary range for this role: is $160,200- $246,300. 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.

Company Vehicle: Upon successful completion of a motor vehicle report review, you will be eligible to participate in a company vehicle evaluation program, through which you will be assigned a General Motors vehicle to drive and evaluate. Note: program participants are required to purchase/lease a qualifying GM vehicle every four years unless one of a limited number of exceptions applies.





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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