Hybrid Staff Software Engineer, Reliability

at General Motors

• Job title: Staff Software Engineer, Reliability
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $160,200 - $290,700 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: C++, Python
• Location requirements: Hybrid, San Francisco, United States

About the role

• Staff Software Engineer developing reliability software for GM Autonomous Vehicles, collaborating across teams to enhance multi-sensor systems and improve data quality.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

• 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.

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.