Staff Software Engineer, Chassis Controls

**Job Description** **Work Arrangement:** **Hybrid:** This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Milford, Michigan or Warren, MI three times per week, at minimum. **Mission Statement** To elevate the quality, efficiency, and excellence of embedded controls software development across the VMEC Chassis Controls organization by serving as a technical multiplier: identifying and eliminating systemic friction, building durable tools and processes, mentoring engineers at all levels, and influencing software design up front. **The Role** VMEC Chassis Controls is seeking a Staff Software Engineer who will serve as a hands-on technical leader and force multiplier across the organization. This is not a role that waits for work to be assigned. This person identifies the highest-value problems in how we develop software and delivers practical, lasting solutions that raise the bar for the entire team. The ideal candidate is an expert in their craft within the embedded controls space: deeply technical, highly autonomous, and motivated by making every engineer around them more effective. They provide technical leadership across multiple teams, engaging early in new software implementations alongside key technical stakeholders to shape design decisions before code is written. They build tools, refine processes, create automation, drive engineering standards and best practices, and mentor engineers so that improvements are durable and self-sustaining. **What You'll Do:** - Identify high-value opportunities to improve engineering effectiveness across tools, workflows, build processes, and the overall developer experience within VMEC Chassis Controls. - Design, develop, and deliver embedded controls software in C, including requirements analysis, functional decomposition, implementation, and testing. - Drive first-time quality at every step of the software development process, from design and code reviews through test strategy and release readiness. - Build practical software solutions, tools, automation, and dashboards that simplify, unify, and optimize software development workflows for engineers at every level. - Partner closely with teams to understand pain points and root causes, then implement durable structural improvements rather than surface-level fixes. - Improve the usability, correctness, and discoverability of engineering systems, dashboards, and self-service tools. - Contribute to and improve CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and validation strategies for platform software. - Use Git/GitHub and code review best practices to maintain code quality, test coverage and traceability across a multi-team environment. - Influence software design decisions across projects and products by engaging early with the SW architecture team and other key technical stakeholders to ensure architectural soundness. - Work with SQAs to understand and anticipate architectural blocking rules, helping SW development teams minimize disruption and maintain delivery momentum. - Serve as a domain expert and go-to resource for chassis controls software, helping engineers across the organization navigate complex technical questions. - Contribute to the technology roadmap for tools, processes, and software practices, advising leadership on forward-looking strategy and innovation opportunities. - Mentor engineers at all levels through code reviews, design guidance, one-on-one coaching, and leading by example. - Lead technical forums across the organization to streamline tools, align practices, eliminate redundancy, and identify efficiency opportunities. - Champion and lead software process development updates within GM's process tool "Stages". - Teach and enable partner teams so that improvements remain sustainable after the initial work is complete. - Drive initiatives from concept through implementation and adoption, ensuring solutions take hold and deliver lasting value. - Support the team in delivering qua…