Principal Software Engineer, Simulation Engine
General MotorsBase Salary
$296k - $454k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define the long-term technical vision, architecture, and strategic roadmap for simulation, validation, and reinforcement-learning infrastructure.
- Establish scalable, high-fidelity, deterministic, and performant simulation platform strategies across the autonomy organization.
- Lead complex cross-organizational technical initiatives spanning autonomy software, machine learning, validation, infrastructure, data, and developer tooling.
- Set direction for simulation abstractions, APIs, execution models, scenario and sensor modeling, quality standards, and integration patterns.
- Drive adoption of common platforms and engineering practices while improving development and validation velocity.
- Influence technical priorities and investment decisions through written proposals, architecture reviews, and executive-level communication.
- Sponsor initiatives through strategy, delivery, adoption, operational maturity, and continuous improvement.
- Define measurable standards for fidelity, performance, reliability, determinism, scalability, and developer experience.
- Advise and mentor principal, staff, and senior engineers and represent the organization in company and relevant external forums.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Machine Learning, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- 12+ years of relevant software engineering experience, including significant ownership of complex, production-quality platforms or systems.
- Expert programming ability in modern C++ and Python, with deep expertise in object-oriented design, software architecture, and systems engineering.
- Demonstrated experience defining technical strategy and delivering transformational, cross-functional initiatives with broad organizational impact.
- Experience serving as an architectural authority across multiple teams, products, or engineering organizations.
- Track record of influencing senior technical and business leaders and aligning organizations around difficult tradeoffs and long-term investments.
- Strong customer orientation and experience translating developer, researcher, or validation needs into widely adopted platform capabilities.
- Ability to improve engineering quality, velocity, reliability, or operational effectiveness at organizational scale.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience building, extending, or operating autonomous-vehicle or robotics simulation platforms is a competitive advantage.
- Experience with Unity, Unreal Engine, or PhysX is a competitive advantage.
- Experience designing reinforcement-learning environments, training infrastructure, or simulation-based machine-learning systems is a competitive advantage.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, and Flexible Spending Account options.
- Retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation and holidays, tuition assistance, and employee assistance programs.
- GM vehicle discounts.
- Eligibility for a company vehicle evaluation program after successful motor vehicle report review, subject to program requirements.
- The company vehicle program requires participants to purchase or lease a qualifying GM vehicle every four years unless an exception applies.
About General Motors
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