General Motors

Senior SW Engineer, Data Recording

General Motors$129K — $198K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • Significant experience in systems-level software development using C and modern C++.
  • Deep understanding of concurrency, memory management, and low-latency systems.
  • Experience designing IPC, messaging, or distributed data systems.
  • Strong ownership of quality software and understanding of CI/build systems.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead technical design and influence engineering decisions.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and implementation of high-performance real-time data systems for automotive devices.
  • Define platform abstractions and APIs for development and retail fleet logging.
  • Set technical direction for quality of service, fault handling, and performance across logging components.
  • Build developer-facing APIs and documentation to enhance integration velocity.
  • Collaborate with multiple teams to deliver comprehensive platform capabilities.
  • Drive production rigor through code review, testing strategies, and operational readiness.
  • Mentor engineers and elevate technical standards within AV Logging and Data Recording.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Accounts.
  • Retirement savings plan.
  • Life insurance and sickness benefits.
  • Paid vacation and holidays.
  • Tuition assistance programs.
  • Employee assistance program and GM vehicle discounts.
Full Job Description
Job Description

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will provide technical leadership for the software that connects our development fleet and retail fleet logging systems. You will help define common concepts, libraries, APIs, and platform components across C/C++ systems running on Linux and QNX-based ECUs, ensuring reliable, scalable, and privacy-aware data recording and offload to backend systems.

What you'll do

  • Lead the design and implementation of reliable, high-performance real-time data collection, processing, and routing systems for automotive edge devices.
  • Define common platform abstractions, libraries, and APIs that bridge development and retail fleet logging use cases.
  • Set technical direction for QoS, backpressure, data privacy, fault handling, observability, and performance reproducibility across logging components.
  • Build developer-facing APIs, tooling, and documentation that improve correctness, integration velocity, and long-term maintainability for internal customers.
  • Partner with OS, drivers, safety, controls, perception, tooling, cloud/backend, and privacy teams to deliver end-to-end platform capabilities.
  • Drive production rigor through code review standards, test strategy, integration testing, soak testing, performance gates, rollout/rollback planning, and operational readiness.
  • Mentor engineers, lead design reviews, and raise the technical bar for systems engineering within AV Logging and Data Recording.


Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

  • BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • Significant experience building systems-level software in C and modern C++.
  • Deep understanding of concurrency, memory management, performance profiling, low-latency systems, and low-contention design patterns.
  • Experience designing IPC, messaging, or distributed data systems, including serialization, flow control, backpressure, QoS, and failure handling.
  • Strong ownership of production-quality software, including testing strategy, CI/build systems, observability, debugging, and operational readiness.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead technical design across teams and influence engineering direction without relying solely on authority.


What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

  • Experience with automotive, robotics, AV, embedded Linux, QNX, or safety-adjacent systems.
  • Experience with high-throughput sensor data, telemetry, logging, data recording, or data offload pipelines.
  • Familiarity with privacy-preserving data collection, data retention policies, or fleet data governance.
  • Experience with Bazel, CMake, CI systems, artifact/versioning strategies, and large-scale monorepo development.
  • Track record mentoring engineers and improving engineering practices across a team or platform area.


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 $129,400- $198,400. 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.


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 a


About General Motors

General Motors Company engages in the manufacture and sale of cars and trucks in the United States, China, Brazil, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Italy. It offers sedans, crossovers, sport utility vehicles, pick-up trucks, coupes, sports/convertibles and hybrid vehicles, hatchbacks/wagons, and vans, as well as mini cars in India. The company also provides parts and accessories, such as iPod and MP3 compatibility, mobility accessories, performance parts, AC parts and services, and merchandise. In addition, it offers vehicle safety, security, and information services. The company provides used vehicles. It offers its products through dealers and distributors. General Motors Company was formerly known as NGMCO, Inc. and changed its name to General Motors Company in July 2009. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Detroit, Michigan. It operates manufacturing facilities in India, the United States, and Canada. General Motors Company operates as a subsidiary of the United States Department of The Treasury. General Motors led global vehicle sales for 77 consecutive years from 1931 through 2007, longer than any other automaker, and is currently among the world's largest automakers by vehicle unit sales. General Motors acts in most countries outside the USA via wholly-owned subsidiaries but operates in China through 10 joint ventures. GM's OnStar subsidiary provides vehicle safety, security, and information services. In 2009, General Motors shed several brands, closing Saturn, Pontiac, and Hummer, and emerged from a government-backed Chapter 11 reorganization. In 2010, GM made an initial public offering IPOs to date and returned to profitability later that year.

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157,000 employees
Market Cap
$46.9 billion
Industry
Net Income
$6.4 billion
Founded
1908
5 Year Trend
-3.2%
Revenue
$122.4 billion
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