Senior Software Engineer – Virtual Cloud Platform
General Motors · Austin, TX
$129,400–$198,400from the description
Jul 14, 2026
Austin, TX
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering role focused on designing, building, and maintaining cloud-based virtualization and automation platforms that support embedded software development for automotive programs. Day-to-day work spans architecting scalable cloud applications, integrating co-simulation environments, and embedding automation into CI/CD pipelines for regression testing. Suited to engineers with deep experience across cloud infrastructure, containerization, automotive development tooling, and test automation.
Senior level · 10+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 2,300 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 470–4,100
Applicant volume Light — Few people clear these requirements, so an application that does clear them gets looked at. Worth applying to even if you miss a nice-to-have.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The JD body states this role is hybrid (3 days/week on-site), but the caller has declared it fully remote for candidate-pool sizing purposes; remote=true is set per caller instruction.
The compensation range ($129,400–$198,400/year) is explicitly noted as potentially unrepresentative for locations outside the California Bay Area.
The JD lists 'Micronut' alongside Quarkus and Spring Boot as a required language/framework; this appears to be a typo or proprietary/internal tool name — it is omitted from the skills list as it cannot be mapped to a canonical technology.
Cursor, Glean, and Microsoft 365 Copilot/Copilot Chat appear alongside GitHub Copilot in the required qualifications block; these are AI productivity tools rather than engineering technologies and are omitted to keep the skills list focused on concrete engineering tools. Claude-based coding workflows are similarly omitted as they name no specific product.
VEOS and AutoVal and Intrepid Vehicle Spy appear in the required automotive tools list but are niche/proprietary tools with limited canonical standing; they are omitted to avoid noise, but hiring managers should note they are explicitly listed as required.
The preferred qualifications section lists familiarity with Jenkins and Git/Gerrit; Jenkins also appears in the required section (with GitHub Actions), so it is marked required. Git/Gerrit appear only under preferred and are marked accordingly.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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