Software Engineer, AV Frameworks – Early Career
General Motors1 day ago
Base Salary
$125k - $150k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and debug high-performance IPC and middleware primitives, including publish/subscribe, shared memory, serialization, discovery, and QoS.
- Improve latency, throughput, and determinism through profiling, tracing, benchmarking, and targeted optimization.
- Develop developer-facing APIs, tooling, and documentation for internal users.
- Deliver platform-ready components with observability, robust fault handling, and reproducible performance.
- Collaborate with platform OS, drivers, safety, controls, perception, and tooling teams on AV software.
- Apply code reviews, unit testing, integration testing, soak testing, performance gates, regression gates, and rollout/rollback discipline.
- Progressively take on more complex work spanning design, implementation, integration, and testing.
Requirements
- Recently completed a BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, Robotics, or a related field.
- Strong modern C++ 20/23 and Python development experience demonstrated through coursework, internships, research, or substantial projects.
- Strong understanding of concurrency, memory management, lock-free or low-contention patterns, and performance profiling.
- Hands-on experience with IPC or messaging systems and distributed-systems fundamentals such as serialization, backpressure, flow control, and QoS.
- Knowledge of Linux-based networking, including sockets, TCP/UDP, multicast, NICs, buffers, MTU, and packetization.
- Ability to debug complex software problems, reason about system behavior, and communicate clearly in a collaborative environment.
- Interest in autonomous vehicles, robotics, embedded systems, or high-performance software.
- Preferred experience with ROS 2, DDS, gRPC, Protobuf, FlatBuffers, Cap’n Proto, zero-copy techniques, real-time Linux, or autonomous-driving, robotics, embedded, AI/ML infrastructure, or platform software projects.
- Preferred degree completion between December 2025 and August 2026 with availability to begin employment in 2026.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring attendance at the Sunnyvale, California office at least three times per week.
- The role may be eligible for relocation benefits.
- Benefits are available from day one through GM’s Total Rewards program.
- Bonus potential is available through an incentive program based on company, job-level, and individual performance.
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.