Overview In this role, you lead a team delivering and evolving GMBSW capabilities across the MSP platform, ensuring a production-ready, scalable software foundation. You align BSW strategy with portfolio needs and collaborate with HWIO, integration, validation, and application teams to support MSP-driven ECU platforms. You'll shape reusable platform solutions and drive quality, safety, and cybersecurity across programs. This is an opportunity to influence core software that underpins GM's SDV strategy and future platforms.
Compensation / Benefits- Company vehicle program
- Potential relocation benefits
- Hybrid work model
- Total Rewards resources
- Competitive compensation
- Career growth opportunities
Responsibilities- Lead and develop a team of BSW engineers with clear goals and growth opportunities
- Foster an inclusive, psychologically safe culture with ownership and continuous learning
- Set priorities and decision criteria balancing platform investments and program commitments
- Provide service-oriented leadership to enable partner teams and accelerate delivery
- Own delivery strategy for GMBSW areas aligned to MSP priorities and ECU roadmaps
- Define and evolve reusable BSW solutions across domains and generations
- Drive technical direction for HWIO/MCAL/RTOS, communications, cyber, diagnostics, memory/data services, programming/boot, RTE, safety, and core system services
- Ensure modular, maintainable, production-ready solutions designed for reuse over one-off customization
- Coordinate with portfolio, architecture, HWIO, integration, validation, and application teams to align delivery with platform needs
- Assess fit for new platform needs, identify gaps, and shape pragmatic plans for reuse and ownership boundaries
- Clarify interfaces and responsibilities across MSP, suppliers, and partner organizations
- Balance roadmap work with support for active initiatives and new builds
- Ensure reliability, deterministic behavior, security, safety, and maintainability of BSW products
- Drive engineering practices for verification, defect management, and root-cause resolution
- Establish quality gates and readiness criteria for foundational software used across programs
- Make timely trade-off decisions on scope, risk, quality, and delivery timing
- Drive continuous improvement in BSW development, configuration, automation, and release workflows
- Improve reuse, standardization, and scalability of GMBSW solutions across MSP
- Capture and scale best practices and contribute to long-term BSW strategy
Key requirements- Bachelor's degree in related technical field
- 8+ years in automotive or embedded software development, preferably platform/infrastructure/basic software
- AUTOSAR-based systems and foundational ECU software experience
- Proven experience leading technical teams and cross-functional software efforts
- Ability to set direction, prioritize work, and deliver on commitments
- Strong understanding of embedded software architecture and hardware abstraction
- Experience with build, configuration, release, and lifecycle management for reusable platform software
- One systems-level programming language (C or C++) with scripting/automation familiarity
- Ability to analyze complex technical issues and resolve blockers across organizations
- Ownership mindset with accountability for product quality and delivery outcomes
- Collaborative and inclusive leadership with a focus on enabling others
- Ownership mindset
- Collaborative leadership
- Decision-making under uncertainty
- AUTOSAR BSW domains (communication, diagnostics, programming/boot, safety, cyber, memory/data services, RTE)
- HWIO/MCAL/RTOS platform infrastructure
- System services and safety
