General Motors

Staff Software Engineer, Reliability

General Motors$160K — $290K *
US-AnywhereRemote in San Francisco, CA
Aerospace & Defense
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of experience in multi-sensor system services and frameworks
  • Bachelor's Degree in relevant field or equivalent work experience
  • Proven experience writing production software for safety-critical systems
  • Proficiency with C++11 or later and Python
  • Experience driving complex embedded software projects through product development lifecycle
  • Skilled in communicating at senior management levels and influencing technical strategies
  • Experience mentoring team members on software development best practices

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop critical software features for autonomous vehicles
  • Conduct root-cause analysis of complex problems across hardware and software domains
  • Identify reliability issue trends and develop design guidelines for continuous improvement
  • Design and implement shared infrastructure and tooling for monitoring embedded software
  • Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and optimized for performance
  • Partner with teams to create embedded software observability solutions
  • Contribute to software planning and the evolution of team projects

Benefits

  • Health and wellbeing programs including medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Accounts options
  • Retirement savings plan
  • Paid vacation and holidays
  • Tuition assistance programs for continued education
  • Employee assistance program
  • Company vehicle evaluation program with eligibility for GM vehicle discounts
Full Job Description
Job 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 $160,200 to $290,700. 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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