Senior Android Software Engineer – In-Vehicle Infotainment OTA

General Motors • Warren, MI

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

GM is looking to hire a Senior Android Software Engineer to lead design, development, and long-term maintenance of in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) apps and OTA update clients on Android Automotive OS (AAOS) for GM’s next-generation software-defined vehicles. The engineer will own major features end-to-end (architecture, implementation, validation, launch, OTA) and set the bar for safety, performance, reliability, and maintainability across Vehicle Applications & Services, with software deployed at scale across global fleets. This engineer will own features from concept through production and fleet-wide OTA rollout by collaborating with UX on automotive interaction patterns and multi-display HMI (cluster, center stack, HUD), Systems/platform on AAOS/AOSP integration and vehicle signals, QA/validation on vehicle-level test plans and defect resolution, Product on feature definition, trade-offs, and prioritization.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in CS, Software Engineering, EE/CE, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of Android development with production Android apps or Android-based embedded software and proven experience on AAOS or deeply embedded Android platforms.
• Expert Kotlin skills; strong proficiency in Kotlin and/or Java, Android SDK, and modern Android patterns (coroutines/Flow, Jetpack, MVVM or similar).
• Deep understanding of App/activity lifecycles, Background limits, scheduling, background work, Coroutines/Flow, concurrency, configuration changes, Memory management, profiling, and performance tuning, Android permissions, security, and system services.
• Track record of designing, implementing, and shipping complex features end-to-end in large codebases with strong debugging skills.
• Demonstrated performance optimization on resource-constrained devices (UI, networking, I/O, rendering), with measurable improvements.
• Strong grounding in software quality with experience automated testing, code reviews, defensive and secure coding
• Experience writing and maintaining: Unit tests (JUnit, MockK/Mockito), UI tests (Espresso, UI Automator), System/integration tests.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated builds, and Git workflows in multi-team environments.
• Effective cross-functional collaboration with UX, product, validation/QA, and platform/system engineers.
• Clear written and verbal communication, able to drive decisions and explain complex topics to varied audiences.
• Demonstrated use of advanced Android concepts (DI, background work, concurrency, profiling) in new features, bug fixes, and refactoring.

Nice To Haves

• 8+ years of experience working directly in AOSP/AAOS platform related code.
• Knowledge of VHAL and vehicle property APIs.
• Experience building or integrating OTA update mechanisms.
• Familiarity with driver-distraction rules and in-vehicle HMI guidelines (OEM, regulatory, industry).
• Experience with long-lifecycle automotive software, safety-critical or regulated systems (functional safety, cybersecurity, etc.).
• Strong debugging with logs, traces, and system-level tools.
• Demonstrated technical leadership: Leading designs for complex features/subsystems.
• Mentoring engineers.
• Influencing standards, patterns, and tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, build, and maintain IVI apps and services on AAOS / embedded Android to evolve OTA update clients with robust rollback, error handling, and fault recovery.
• Own UX and interaction flows for key scenarios (e.g., media, navigation integrations, app-store experiences, messaging), ensuring experiences are intuitive, glanceable, compliant with Android Automotive UX, driver-distraction, safety guidelines and meet GM and regulatory requirements.
• Drive performance on constrained hardware to optimize startup/resume times, frame rate, animation smoothness and manage memory, CPU, I/O for predictable behavior.
• Integrate apps with vehicle properties, VHAL, navigation, media, voice assistants, and back-office services via AAOS APIs and IPC (AIDL, gRPC or similar) and instrument apps with logging, metrics, and traces for observability, field triage, and continuous improvement.
• Define and collaborate on unit, integration, UI, and bench/in-vehicle test coverage and ensure fast cold-boot and resume and support multi-version AAOS/Android and long vehicle lifecycles.
• Apply and evolve clean, modular Android architectures (e.g., MVVM + Jetpack) for large, long-lived automotive codebases by partnering with platform teams on AOSP/AAOS customization and integration.
• Diagnose and fix issues across app, framework, and system layers.
• Contribute to architectural decisions on system services, permissions, and security models and influence platform-level improvements in stability, performance, security, and developer efficiency.
• Define and implement various test strategies like Unit tests (e.g., JUnit, MockK/Mockito), UI tests (e.g., Espresso, UI Automator), System/integration tests.
• Build and maintain test automation for emulators and on-bench environments and integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and automated build systems.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to mid-level and junior engineers includes leading code and design reviews and champion best practices

Benefits

• This Job may be eligible for relocation benefits.
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• From day one, we're looking out for your well-being–at work and at home–so you can focus on realizing your ambitions.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior