Staff Systems Engineer (Core Platform)

The Physical and Virtual Tests Platform organisation at GM is building a cloud-native platform that transforms physical automotive test hardware into cloud-native compute resources. This platform enables developers to discover, provision, and execute workloads on automotive benches with the same ease as cloud computing. As a Staff Systems Engineer, you will be the bridge between the platform and the hardware it manages -- building integration tooling, hardware discovery services, provisioning workflows, and agent software in Go that connects diverse automotive test equipment to the platform's control plane. This is not a pure embedded development role. You will use your understanding of embedded systems, hardware interfaces, and low-level protocols to inform the design of platform services and tooling that abstract hardware complexity for hundreds of developers. You will work closely with both embedded engineering teams and platform engineers, translating between their worlds and shaping the features that make the platform genuinely useful for teams working with physical hardware. This is a hands-on technical leadership role on a small, greenfield team where your decisions will directly shape how the platform interacts with automotive hardware at scale. If you are excited about turning deep systems knowledge into platform services and developer tooling that transforms how engineers access and use test infrastructure, this role offers the opportunity to define that layer from scratch.