Senior Software Engineer, AV Core Services

GM • Mountain View, CA

13d • $134,000 - $235,900 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Role: Come build the future of self-driving at GM. The Autonomous Vehicle Launch team is responsible for configuring, executing, and monitoring our autonomous driving applications. We develop onboard services that orchestrate on-vehicle activities across distributed computers. Our systems are among the first to start when a vehicle powers on and the last to shut down during power off. Our team interfaces with production vehicles, manufacturing lines, developer environments, cloud services, and more. As a Senior Software Engineer in the AV Launch team, you’ll develop embedded applications and frameworks that provision, execute, instrument, and monitor our self-driving stack. You’ll collaborate with other teams to engineer onboard workflows and use cases. The systems you build will be deployed onto vehicles, hardware benches, and in simulations. Your efforts will directly influence how other teams design and build the next generation of self-driving software at GM.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM field or relevant work experience
• 5+ years of experience building and shipping production-quality software, with a focus in Linux-based environments
• Strong background in modern C++ and Python development
• Experience working with and building tooling for large systems
• A high standard and commitment to quality by designing for testability

Nice To Haves

• Track record of developing projects from initial design through customer release
• Experience with robotics middleware platforms and related concepts, such as inter-process communication or logging
• Experience designing software for CPU and memory-constrained environments, or interfacing with hardware
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to convey design intent to stakeholders and document system behavior

Responsibilities

• Build on-vehicle services that provision, execute, and monitor autonomous vehicle software in development and production workflows
• Build frameworks to configure self-driving software for a wide variety of simulation environments, hardware platforms, and use cases
• Develop systems and frameworks to monitor vehicle status and exfiltrate data
• Collaborate with colleagues across multiple teams and mentor other developers
• Deliver complex projects through incremental development

Benefits

• GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs.
• Benefit options include medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance programs, employee assistance program, GM vehicle discounts and more.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees