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Senior Android Software Engineer - In-Vehicle Infotainment & OTA

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Warren MI USA

Hybrid

Senior level

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The Role

GM is hiring a Senior Android Software Engineer to develop IVI apps for Android Automotive OS ensuring optimal performance safety and maintainability while leading feature development from concept to OTA rollout collaborating with various teams to meet compliance and enhance user experience.

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Work Arrangement:
This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Warren MI three times per week at minimum or other frequency dictated by the business.
The Role
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 engieer 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.
What You'll Do

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

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

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.

What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

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.

GM DOES NOT PROVIDE IMMIGRATION-RELATED SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE. DO NOT APPLY FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU WILL NEED GM IMMIGRATION SPONSORSHIP (e.g. H-1B TN STEM OPT etc.) NOW OR IN THE FUTURE.
This Job may be eligible for relocation benefits.
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GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply for this role if you will need GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future. This includes direct company sponsorship entry of GM as the immigration employer of record on a government form and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g. H1-B OPT STEM OPT CPT TN J-1 etc.)
This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location at least 3 times a week {or other frequency dictated by their manager}.
The selected candidate will be required to travel <25% for this role.
This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.
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