VP Software Engineering at GM Financial responsible for technology implementation strategy and leading product teams in Agile environment. Championing technology modernization and driving operational excellence.
About the role
- Embedded Software Engineer developing reliable firmware close to hardware for DSP architecture and microcontrollers. Collaborating on real-time embedded software and optimizing compute-heavy pipelines.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain embedded firmware for DSP cores and MCUs (RISC V and/or Arm).
- Build and optimize real-time signal-processing pipelines (fixed-point and/or floating-point), potentially including FFTs, filters, modulation/demodulation, codecs, feature extraction, or control loops.
- Develop firmware using a mix of C/C++ (and selective assembly where appropriate), with strong focus on performance, memory, and power optimization.
- Work with SoC/board peripherals: DMA, timers, SPI, I²C, UART, I²S/TDM, PWM, GPIO, and relevant bus fabrics.
- Bring up new hardware: boot flows, clocks, memory maps, interrupt vectors, peripheral init, and early validation.
- Implement and debug drivers and RTOS components (e.g., Zephyr or equivalent), including task scheduling, synchronization primitives, and ISR design.
- Develop test strategies: unit tests, hardware-in-the-loop tests, test automation, and manufacturing/production diagnostics.
- Use debugging/profiling tools: JTAG/SWD, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, trace (ETM/ITM), and cycle-accurate profiling when available.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with hardware, FPGA/ASIC, systems, and application teams to define requirements and interfaces.
- Contribute documentation: architecture notes, interface specs, timing budgets, work packages, and bring-up guides.
- Participate in code reviews and help establish best practices for embedded quality, safety, and maintainability.
Requirements
- Strong professional experience developing embedded firmware in C/C++ for MCUs and/or DSPs.
- Hands-on experience with RISC V and/or Arm architecture (Cortex M/A), including interrupts, memory, caches, and performance characteristics.
- Solid understanding of embedded software fundamentals:
- register-level programming, memory-mapped I/O
- concurrency (ISRs, RTOS tasks), race conditions, timing determinism
- fixed-point arithmetic, numerical precision, and overflow/underflow management
- Proven ability to optimize firmware: cycle counting, memory layout, DMA usage, cache behavior, minimizing latency and jitter.
- Comfortable with toolchains and build systems:
- GCC/LLVM-based toolchains, cross-compilation
- CMake/Make, Meson, linker scripts, map files
- Strong debugging skills with hardware and firmware:
- JTAG/SWD debugging
- root-cause analysis of timing and performance issues
- Source control expertise (Git) and disciplined engineering practices (code reviews, CI).
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Retirement plans
- Paid time off
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development opportunities
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