General Motors

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The Principal Software Engineer at GM should be an experienced leader who cares deeply about software and software quality. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, documenting, and implementing complex, highly scalable, low-latency software on custom embedded Linux and RTOS-based systems. Your work will be the foundational software on which the rest of GM AV stack builds upon. What you’ll do: • Work with executive leadership to set the technology direction for embedded system development with a focus on robotics solutions • Define a technical vision for mission-critical parts of embedded systems development • Work across orgs to ensure that the joint architecture across the full stack is coherent and is capable of solving relevant problems • Lead large initiatives involving many stakeholders by driving impact analysis and ensuring alignment with (and existence of) the larger architectural roadmap • Maintain alignment between senior leadership and engineering teams through effective executive communication • Maintain very high-quality bar in projects from the start and champion quality improvements by implementing better technical practices • Work with other teams to define the system level architecture and strategies for implementation. • Initiate large projects with complex architecture, breaking it down to the right logical components so others can be utilized effectively. • Improve and deliver reliable software through requirements generation, continuous integration, automated testing, issue tracking, and code reviews • Mentor others and be a role model for the team. • Providing technical leadership, guidance and mentorship to our robotics senior+ engineers as they propose, prototype, evaluate, and iterate solutions, as well as through their career progression • Set and maintain a high technical bar for hiring • Advances recognized leading edge technologies and fosters an environment of innovation in others • Drive architecture standards, patterns, and principles; to disseminate information and strategy across the engineering org; to provide a sounding board for engineering teams addressing complex design topics, and to review/approve impactful, cross-cutting architecture designs What we’re looking for: • Proven experience writing production-quality software in multiple shipping products on custom hardware • Proficiency with C • Experience with Linux kernel or other RTOS driver development • Successful use of accelerator hardware (e.g., FPGA, DSP, embedded GPU, Tensor Processing Units) • Familiar with heterogeneous compute systems (i.e., a mix of Intel, ARMv8, other processor types) • Experience in kernel drivers/frameworks and embedded-linux build system • Experience applying and mentoring team members on software best practices • Effective at influencing others and building consensus even over contentious technical debates • Excellent verbal and written communication skills -- able to advise leadership at the director+ level on technical strategy • Expert at scoping and leading large ambiguous cross-functional engineering projects • Compensation: • The expected base compensation for this role is: $238,700- $365,700. Actual base compensation within the identified 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: • 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.