Jobs / United States / General Motors Company
Staff Software Engineer – Core OS, Vehicle Compute
General Motors Company · 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America
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 roles34 certified filings for “Senior Software Engineer” (Software Developers) in CA: $216k–$265k, median $235k. Most were filed at wage level IV (65%) — 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 At General Motors, our product teams are redefining mobility. Through a human-centered design process, we create vehicles and experiences that are designed not just to be seen, but to be felt. We’re turning today’s impossible into tomorrow’s standard —from breakthrough hardware and battery systems to intuitive design, intelligent software, and next-generation safety and entertainment features . Every day, our products move millions of people as we aim to make driving safer, smarter, and more connected, shaping the future of transportation on a global scale The Role The Core OS group is a newly formed team standing up the operating-system foundation GM's software-defined vehicles run on: the virtualization and platform-services layer that lets embedded Linux, Android, and QNX share vehicle compute safely and efficiently. As one of the founding engineers, you'll set technical direction from a blank sheet across hypervisor integration, guest OS enablement, resource partitioning, the boot and secure-boot chain, container runtime, and the health and fault-management services that keep the platform reliable in production. The architecture you choose now becomes the platform every GM vehicle software team builds on, and getting it right means debugging across boundaries most engineers never cross — guest to host, software to silicon, between partitions with different safety requirements. What You’ll Do • Own critica l hyperv isor and virtual machine capabilities, including virtual machine definitions, CPU and memory partitioning, device assignment and passthrough, and virtio-based device models. • Design and optimize communication between virtual machines using shared memory, message passing, and virtualized input/output for throughput, latency, and deterministic behavior. • Enable and mai ntain gu est operating systems across embedded Linux, including Yocto-based distributions, Android, and QNX, with consistent access to platform services, time synchronization, lifecycle control, interfaces, and developer tooling. • Implement and optimize the boot and secure-boot chain across partitions, including startup sequencing, boot-time performance, and platform-integrity verification. • Build platform services for resource governance, health monitoring, watchdogs, fault detection, fault handling, and recovery, while meeting automotive safety and availability requirements. • Develop container-runtime and workload-management capabilities for in-vehicle applications, including isolation, resource limits, lifecycle management, updates, and rollbacks. • Profile, optimize, and debug CPU, memory, input/output, and interrupt behavior across the virtualized stack. Lead root-cause analysis using traces, logs, and low-level tools to resolve issues spanning guest operating systems, hypervisors, firmware, and silicon. • Improve engineering quality through continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), bench and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) automation, validation strategies, Git and GitHub workflows, and code reviews. Mentor engineers and collaborate with silicon enablement, guest operating system, board support package (BSP), functional safety, and cybersecurity teams. Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications) • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electr ical E ngineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent practical experience. • Ten or more years of professional experience in embedded, systems, or kernel-level software development, including production software in automotive or similarly complex embedded domains. • Deep expertise in operating-system-level software on Arm-based system-on-chips (SoCs), with expe rience in several of the