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Senior Software Engineer, AV Launch

Posted Yesterday
Remote or Hybrid
Hiring Remotely in District of Columbia
134K-236K Annually
Senior level
Remote or Hybrid
Hiring Remotely in District of Columbia
134K-236K Annually
Senior level
The Senior Software Engineer will develop embedded applications for self-driving vehicles, collaborating across teams to build monitoring systems and onboard services, ensuring quality and functionality for production workflows.
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Description
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.
What You'll Do:
  • 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

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)
  • 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

What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Skills)
  • 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

Compensation : The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance with applicable state laws. The compensation may not be representative for positions located outside of the California Bay Area.
  • The salary range for this role is $134,000 to $235,900. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.

  • Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.

Relocation: This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.
Benefits:
  • 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.

Job Description
Remote: This role is based remotely but if you live within a 50-mile radius of [Mountain View, Detroit, Warren, Milford], you are expected to report to that location three times a week, at minimum.
About GM
Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.
Why Join Us
We believe we all must make a choice every day - individually and collectively - to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.
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All employment decisions are made on a non-discriminatory basis without regard to sex, race, color, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, pregnancy or maternity status, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran or protected veteran, or any other similarly protected status in accordance with federal, state and local laws.
We encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications for each role and apply for any positions that match their skills and capabilities. Applicants in the recruitment process may be required, where applicable, to successfully complete a role-related assessment(s) and/or a pre-employment screening prior to beginning employment. To learn more, visit How we Hire.
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Top Skills

C++
Linux
Python

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