Staff Software Engineer
General Motors1 day ago
Base Salary
$189k - $290k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the long-term technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for AV HIL software platforms and integration services.
- Lead the design and evolution of scalable, reliable, observable, and hardware-aware HIL capabilities for AV software validation.
- Establish technical standards for platform services, APIs, service reliability, test automation, performance, and operational excellence.
- Own complex technical problems spanning AV software, AI models, vehicle hardware, infrastructure, middleware, operating systems, and deployment pipelines.
- Translate organizational and customer needs into platform requirements, measurable outcomes, technical strategies, and delivery plans.
- Influence technical decisions across the AV organization and align senior technical leaders, product stakeholders, and partner teams.
- Contribute to software designs and implementations while supporting requirements generation, design reviews, automated testing, observability, releases, and operational support.
- Improve platform scalability, utilization, fidelity, developer productivity, and cost efficiency through defined metrics and sustained improvements.
- Mentor engineers, strengthen technical communities, and contribute to hiring and talent-development strategies.
- Represent AV HIL Software Platforms in architecture reviews and technical planning forums.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience designing, developing, and delivering production-quality software systems, including leading large or highly complex technical initiatives.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field; a Master’s or PhD is preferred.
- Expert software engineering and systems fundamentals with strong coding ability in Python, C++, or comparable languages.
- Experience defining and executing technical strategy for complex distributed hardware-software systems with broad organizational impact.
- Deep experience designing for scalability, performance, reliability, observability, maintainability, and operational excellence.
- Experience developing and operating software in a Linux environment across the full software development lifecycle.
- Strong understanding of platform and service architecture, APIs, automation, CI/CD, test infrastructure, and production operations.
- Ability to lead through influence, resolve cross-team dependencies, build alignment, and make decisions in ambiguous environments.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for explaining architecture, risks, and trade-offs to senior leadership.
- Preferred experience with hardware-in-the-loop, software-in-the-loop, simulation, validation, or large-scale test and integration platforms.
- Preferred experience optimizing complex software on dedicated hardware, including performance profiling, resource management, latency analysis, and capacity planning.
- Preferred experience with ROS or similar robotics architectures, distributed autonomy software, low-latency or safety-critical systems, autonomous vehicles, automotive, robotics, embedded systems, or platform-as-a-service capabilities.
- Preferred experience with Bazel, SQL, test analytics, platform observability, validation insights, engineering standards, governance, roadmaps, architecture reviews, and mentoring senior engineers.
Benefits
- Expected base compensation is $189,300-$290,000, with additional bonus potential.
- Health, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, and paid vacation and holidays are offered.
- The role is hybrid and requires reporting to a specific location at least three times per week or at another frequency set by the manager.
- Travel is expected to be less than 25%.
- The role may be eligible for relocation benefits.
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.