Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer - Autonomous Software Systems

General Motors

Location:
United States , Austin, Texas ▼
Mountain View, California
Sunnyvale, California

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

175000.00 - 230000.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

The Autonomous Vehicle Health team is responsible for deploying, running, and monitoring the software stack in all supported environments, whether it be on car or in testing frameworks. Our team's mission is to develop frameworks and tools required to monitor the runtime health of the AV system, and transition system operational state in fault scenarios. As a Senior Software Engineer with our AV Health team, you’ll write code to configure, instrument, deploy, and monitor vehicle software for use both in developer workflows and across our cars. Your work will enable engineering efforts to move quickly and reliably, as we evaluate, support, and deploy to new hardware and software configurations.

Job Responsibility:

Write C++ code that runs on self-driving systems, and responds to changes in AV component health
Build tools that deploy, execute, and monitor autonomous vehicle code in development and production workflows
Write and test code running across simulation and hardware vehicle platforms
Integrate new platform revisions and hardware configurations into the system
Develop systems and frameworks to monitor vehicle HW/SW status and offload data
Collaborate with colleagues across multiple teams and mentor other developers
Design and present new capabilities to refine and build consensus
Provide, communicate, and support common best practices among software community
Deliver complex projects through incremental development
Performs as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for at least one platform or application component

Requirements:

4+ years experience building and shipping production-quality software, with a focus in Linux based environments
Bachelors Degree in relevant field or relevant work experience
Experience with C++ (17+), STL, and Python3
Experience working with and building tooling for large, complex systems
A high standard and commitment to quality by designing for maintainability, testability and efficiency

Nice to have:

7+ years experience building and shipping production-quality software, with a focus in Linux based environments
Deep knowledge of C++20, modern libraries and development patterns
Experience with build tools like bazel or cmake
Experience debugging across cloud and embedded systems
Building and shipping production-quality software on and for embedded Linux / POSIX systems
Experience working with ROS or similar pub/sub IPC systems
Leads and generates technical solutions including specifying of requirements, functional decomposition, analysis, development and testing for current, new and major programs
Lead development of software system team design content and software anomaly corrections
Performs complex design analysis
Being able to balance system requirements

What we offer:

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

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
February 18, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Remote work

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