Staff Software Engineer - Vehicle AI
General Motors1 day ago
Base Salary
$189k - $290k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture and development of GM’s in-vehicle AI assistant application platform on Android Automotive OS.
- Drive technical execution, roadmaps, architecture decisions, code quality standards, and system design practices across engineering teams.
- Design developer-facing APIs, SDKs, and shared application libraries for downstream AI and vehicle capability teams.
- Build hybrid edge-and-cloud architectures and optimize voice/text latency, memory usage, and responsiveness in vehicles.
- Establish automated testing, continuous integration, validation, benchmarking, and quality feedback infrastructure.
- Design Android application contracts using Android Interface Definition Language and inter-process communication mechanisms.
- Collaborate with AI, product management, and user experience teams to deliver resilient platform capabilities.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of professional software development experience, primarily focused on production Android application architecture.
- Proven experience serving as a technical lead and guiding architecture and software execution across engineering teams.
- Expert proficiency in Kotlin, Java, Android Jetpack, Coroutines, Flow, and dependency injection frameworks such as Hilt or Dagger.
- Hands-on experience designing developer-facing APIs, platform SDKs, or shared application libraries.
- Experience establishing automated testing strategies and continuous integration pipelines for mobile software platforms.
- Experience with client-server architectures using streaming, gRPC, or REST protocols.
- Strong knowledge of Android application components, lifecycle management, and IPC/AIDL.
- Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree, experience with voice assistants or conversational and agentic applications, Android Automotive OS, client-side machine learning, on-device runtime optimization, and AI/ML evaluation and benchmarking pipelines.
Benefits
- Remote/hybrid arrangement with in-office attendance at least three times per week in Austin, Mountain View, or eligible remote work in Washington State, subject to business needs.
- Base salary range of $189,300-$290,000, plus potential incentive compensation.
- Eligibility for GM’s company vehicle evaluation program after successful motor vehicle report review, with vehicle purchase or lease requirements.
- Potential relocation benefits.
- Benefits and total rewards resources available from day one.
About General Motors
General Motors designs, manufactures, and sells cars, trucks, and electric vehicles for consumers and commercial fleets under brands including Chevrolet, GMC, Cadillac, and Buick. A public company on the NYSE headquartered in Detroit and founded in 1908, it operates globally and is developing EVs on its Ultium battery platform. Revenue comes from vehicle and parts sales, connected services such as OnStar, and financing through GM Financial.