Staff Software Engineering - Vehicle Data Platform
General Motors1 day ago
Markham, Canada or Oshawa, CanadaStaff+
Base Salary
$147k - $197k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction for vehicle control-plane, data-plane, configuration, fleet-management, logging, and SDK architecture.
- Design, implement, maintain, prototype, and review on-vehicle software for Android, Linux, and QNX.
- Optimize configuration delivery, data egress, convergence speed, and CPU and memory usage on ECUs.
- Integrate vehicle software with Azure, AWS S3, and Firestore cloud services.
- Define reliability, performance, privacy, resource-use, health-metric, and observability standards.
- Lead production incident response, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and cross-organizational initiatives.
- Define SDK roadmaps, report risks and tradeoffs, contribute to open source, and mentor engineers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- At least 6 years of hands-on development experience in C, C++, and related languages.
- Experience developing for Linux, Android, and QNX.
- Understanding of distributed systems, configuration management, and large-scale data pipelines.
- Experience designing or operating control planes, fleet-management systems, or large-scale distributed coordination services.
- Experience with fleet-scale logging or telemetry software, SDK or library delivery, API design, versioning, and adoption support.
- Understanding of network communication and security protocols, including mTLS and certificate-based device identity.
- Familiarity with Autosar standards and experience leading initiatives across organizations.
- Expertise in software development, optimization, production troubleshooting, technical communication, and design documentation.
- Preferred qualifications include vehicle protocols such as UDS, CAN, SOME/IP, and XCP; AWS, GCP, Azure, IoT Hub, IoT Core, and Pub/Sub; OpenTelemetry, protobuf, gRPC, Firestore, Fluent Bit, OTA systems, automotive ECU architectures, and CI/CD automation.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring at least three days per week in the office.
- Paid time off, vacation days, holidays, and supplemental pregnancy, parental, and adoption leave.
- Healthcare, dental, vision, and life insurance benefits.
- Defined Contribution Pension plan with company and matching contributions.
- GM Vehicle Purchase Plan for employees and their families.
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.