Hybrid Principal Software Engineer

at General Motors

• Job title: Principal Software Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $250,000 - $380,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Java, Linux, Python, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Austin, United States

About the role

• Principal Software Engineer at General Motors responsible for designing and implementing scalable software for Autonomous Vehicles. Leading software strategies and providing mentorship to engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead software strategy for new technology and highly complex features in our Autonomy org
• Define a technical vision and roadmap for mission-critical parts of development
• Work across orgs to ensure that the joint architecture across the full stack is coherent and can solve relevant problems
• Maintain alignment between senior leadership and engineering teams through effective executive communication
• Maintain 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
• Provide technical leadership, guidance and mentorship to Senior and Staff engineers
• Lead large initiatives involving many stakeholders by driving impact analysis and ensuring alignment with the larger architectural roadmap
• Drive architecture standards, patterns, and principles

Requirements

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electronics & Communication, Electrical Engineering, or related degree
• 8+ years of experience in Software development and launching quality software into production
• Demonstrated successful technical track record leading software development teams in complex system environments
• Proficiency with one of these programming languages: C++ 11 or later, Python, Golang, Java.
• Experience developing on and for embedded Linux / POSIX systems (preferred)
• Experience applying and mentoring team members on software best practices (preferred)
• Experience with ROS or other robotics middleware platforms (preferred)
• Experience with other languages: C, Python, Bash, Go (preferred)
• Experience with embedded build systems, such as buildroot or yocto (preferred).

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.
• 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.