Software Engineer, AV Platform MCU

General Motors • Milford, MI

7d • Onsite

About The Position

The Software Engineer on the AV MCU Platform team independently owns moderate-scope software features, components, or sub-projects related to MCU01. The role contributes throughout the development lifecycle, from requirements and design through implementation, integration, testing, debugging, documentation, and release support. The engineer works closely with systems, hardware, safety, cybersecurity, integration, and validation teams to deliver production-quality embedded software.

The Autonomous Vehicle Microcontrollers team develops embedded platform software that provides the foundation for AV systems. Its software communicates with sensors, supports vehicle operation, provides observability, manages system health, and enables reliable operation of vehicle and platform functions. The position is categorized as onsite, with the selected candidate expected to report to a specific location full time. Travel is less than 25%. The role is not eligible for relocation benefits, and GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for it.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or a related STEM field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
• Ability to diagnose software issues using logs, traces, debuggers, test results, and other technical evidence.
• At least 2 years of experience building and shipping production-quality embedded software.
• Background in embedded C software development.
• Understanding of software development lifecycle practices, source control, code reviews, continuous integration, and issue tracking.
• Experience working with an RTOS such as QNX, FreeRTOS, or OSEK.
• Good communication skills and ability to switch between high-level and detailed discussions.
• Must not require GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with robotics, autonomous vehicles, automotive embedded systems, or ADAS development.
• Experience working with AUTOSAR.
• Experience in a safety-critical embedded software environment, such as ISO 26262, DO-178C, or MIL-STD-882E.
• Experience with JIRA, DOORS NG, Confluence, GitHub, Lauterbach, or Visual Studio Code.
• Experience developing software that scales to millions of instances and managing it.
• Ability to adapt and operate under ambiguity, moving from quick code prototypes to long-term plans on brief time horizons.
• Master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or a related STEM field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.

Responsibilities

• Reproduce and diagnose software failures using logs, traces, debugger data, telemetry, test evidence, and controlled experiments.
• Perform structured root-cause analysis for crashes, memory faults, timing issues, race conditions, communication failures, watchdog resets, and unexpected state transitions, as applicable.
• Design, develop, integrate, and maintain embedded C software for multicore microcontrollers.
• Implement moderate-scope features, enhancements, integrations, and defect fixes within the assigned software component or subsystem.
• Develop across the applicable automotive embedded software stack, including BSP, BSW, middleware, RTOS services, drivers, and application software.
• Write maintainable, modular, efficient, and testable code consistent with team coding standards.
• Implement robust handling for initialization, state transitions, communication errors, diagnostics, degraded operation, watchdog events, and fault recovery, as applicable.
• Analyze the impact of software changes on interfaces, timing, memory, CPU utilization, configuration, and dependent components.

What This Job Offers

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