General Motors

Staff Software Engineer Reliability

Reposted An Hour Ago

4 Locations

Remote or Hybrid

160K-291K Annually

Senior level

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The Role

The Staff Software Engineer will develop reliability software features for autonomous vehicles focusing on multi-sensor systems and frameworks while collaborating with cross-functional teams and driving improvements in reliability and performance.

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Description
About
The AV platform team develops the first layers of software on the GM Autonomous Vehicles from working with hardware to moving large amounts of data up the software stack. Within this the Autonomy Interface SW team develops environmental sensing solutions on multiple vehicle platforms.
Role
As a Staff Software Engineers you are the expert professionals identifying and pursuing new paths of inquiry at GM. As GM's AV business continues to scale rapidly building a stable scalable flexible cost-efficient and reliable foundation is critical. This role will specifically work on the multi-sensor system services and frameworks in collaboration with our partner teams across GM.
What you'll be doing:

Collaborate with hardware systems engineering program management product management and peer software teams to develop critical reliability software features for the autonomous vehicle. Includes developing and debugging of application and middleware software for existing and next generation sensing data pipelines on the vehicle

Root-cause analysis of complex problems involving multiple cross-functional partners including hardware and software

Identify reliability issue trends provide clear guidance on reliability requirements develop reliability design guidelines and apply lessons learned to enable continuous improvement

Design and implement shared infrastructure and tooling among the AV Platform teams to monitor and analyze embedded software and data quality metrics. Identify opportunities to unify approaches improve reliability and increase developer velocity

Own the development quality and ensure the solutions are scalable secure and optimized for customer experience and performance. Raise the bar on engineering
excellence by producing best-in-class code documentation testing and monitoring.

Partner with cross-functional teams to architect and implement embedded software observability and monitoring solutions

Work with the engineering teams to architect and build services to simplify
troubleshooting and operational response to incidents and Autonomous Vehicles fleet outages

Own technical projects participate in design reviews and provide input for the reliability section of others' design reviews

Ensure efficiency of the vehicle change process involving embedded software changes and dependencies

Participate in on-call rotation

High focus on collecting and inferring metric documentation to be used by others to build and maintain system

Contribute to the roadmap and software planning activities within the team helping drive the vision of how the team should evolve

Guide and mentor developers on the team

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

6+ years of experience professional experience with multi-sensor system services and frameworks
Bachelors Degree in relevant field or relevant work experience.
Proven experience writing production software to improve data quality and reliability of
safety critical systems including root cause and corrective actions

Proficiency with C++11 or later and Python

Proficiency in debugging and troubleshooting firmware-related issue

Experience driving complex embedded software projects through the full lifecycle of product development

Experience architecting and delivering Embedded Systems solutions that support
multiple generations of the product

Experience engaging in communication at senior management levels and influencing technical strategies

Experience applying and mentoring team members on software development best
practice

Clear and concise written and verbal communication skills

What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

8+ years of professional experience with multi-sensor system services and frameworks
Experience with safety-critical development (FDA FAA Automotive)

Experience with safety-critical development (FDA FAA Automotive)

Familiarity with reliability engineering principles (FMEA FTA and other reliability
assessment techniques)

Knowledge of relevant functional safety industry standards and regulations

Experience with different types of sensors and environmental sensing systems

Knowledge of embedded software testing methodologies and tools as well as quality assurance processes and methodologies

Experience developing on and for Embedded Linux / POSIX systems

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 New York Colorado California or Washington.

The salary range for this role: is $160200 to $290700. 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.

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.

Company Vehicle: Upon successful completion of a motor vehicle report review you will be eligible to participate in a company vehicle evaluation program through which you will be assigned a General Motors vehicle to drive and evaluate. Note: program participants are required to purchase/lease a qualifying GM vehicle every four years unless one of a limited number of exceptions applies.
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This role is based remotely but if the selected candidate lives within a specific mile radius of a GM hub they will be expected to report to the location three times a week {or other frequency dictated by your 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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Top Skills

C++11

Embedded Linux

Embedded Systems

Posix

Python

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