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Staff Software Engineer- Test System Modernization
General Motors Company · 🇺🇸 5 Locations
Sponsorship verdict
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One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 606 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 267 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What General Motors Company paid sponsored hires in similar roles171 certified filings for “Senior Software Engineer” (Software Developers) in MI: $140k–$163k, median $150k. Most were filed at wage level IV (74%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 606 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 267 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Job Description The Role General Motors is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to shape and scale the engineering platforms that build, test, integrate, validate, and deliver embedded software for software-defined vehicles. This role is for a hands-on technical leader who can turn ambiguous, cross-team problems into durable architecture, practical standards, and measurable improvements in engineering effectiveness, release confidence, and product quality. The successful candidate will lead a major capability across multiple teams, influence technical direction beyond their immediate organization, and connect software, tooling, infrastructure, test, and release activities into a coherent engineering system. What You'll Do (Responsibilities): • Be a critical leader of software engineering productivity and effectiveness. • Identify opportunities, strategies, process improvements, and lead the change. • Be hands-on by leading high impact efforts. • Be a strong communicator, coach, and mentor. • Analyze unusual and difficult problems effectively. • Ability to connect multiple initiatives together to deliver higher value. • Visualize required innovation, learning and simplification in this space and transition the team to execute what is required to achieve. • Maintain command skills and empathy at the same time. • Lead the modernization of a large-scale embedded software test system. • Define and modernize a standardized, fully automated, headless framework across virtual and physical environments to enable full-suite testing multiple times per day. Key Deliverables • Define the architecture and roadmap for standardized test execution, configuration and variation management, traceability, quality gates, regression selection, and results reporting. • Establish change-impact analysis and risk-based regression strategies using Gears, Pure Variants, or equivalent tools to determine test applicability and optimize re-testing. • Standardize test-result schemas, metadata, diagnostics, and artifacts; enable storage in Databricks for analytics, trend analysis, data mining, and reporting. • Develop APIs and integrations connecting test execution, test management, issue tracking, failure triage, and diagnostic tools • Improve test robustness, failure triage, execution speed, and deployment efficiency across CI/CD pipelines and physical and virtual test environments. Measures of Success • Faster, more reliable test deployment and execution. • More efficient regression testing through accurate change-impact analysis. • Standardized, traceable test results accessible through Databricks and documented APIs. • Faster failure identification, triage, and resolution. • Clear test applicability across software, hardware, configuration, and platform variants. Qualifications/Requirements • Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, software engineering, systems engineering or a related technical field; or equivalent practical experience. • Typically, 10 or more years experience validating software systems, including substantial experience leading architecture across organizations. • Deep understanding of software architecture for real time systems. • Experience shipping high quality safety critical products. • Experience architecting large-scale CI/CD, embedded test automation, and build-to-test pipelines. • Expertise in variation management, configuration comparison, change-impact analysis, and risk-based regression testing. • Experience with test-result data modeling, Databricks, analytics, data mining, and API development. • Proficiency with embedded systems, Linux, Git, Python, Bash, Robot Framework, containers, and infrastructure as code. • Demonstrated abili