Principal Engineer, Autonomy Interface Software

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**Job Description**
**Remote** **:** This role is based remotely but if you live within a 50-mile radius of Mountain View, you are expected to report to that location three times a week, at minimum.
**Role:** The Principal Software Engineer at General Motors 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 in C++ on high performance Autonomous Vehicles (AV) Integrity Platform software.

Your work will be the foundational software which the rest of AV builds upon.

This role is focused on software development for the Autonomy Interface Software domain that includes AV Sensing, AV Health, and Vehicle Abstraction solutions.
At General Motors, we believe in engineering leaders who remain deeply technical and understand the challenges their teams are facing.

The ideal candidate will be comfortable switching context from programming in C++, designing elegant software architectures, defining how to test, benchmark, and debug complex systems, and providing mentorship for staff and senior software engineers.
**What you’ll do:**
+ Define and lead software strategy for new technology and highly complex features for AV Integrity Platform development with a focus on sensing, health monitoring, and abstraction layers
+ Define a technical vision and roadmap for mission-critical parts of AVIP 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 as they propose, prototype, evaluate, and iterate solutions, as well as through their career progression
+ Lead large initiatives involving many stakeholders by driving impact analysis, and ensuring alignment with the larger architectural roadmap
+ Drive architecture standards, patterns, and principles
**Your Skills & Abilities:**
+ Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electronics & Communication, Electrical Engineering, or related degree
+ 10+ years of experience in Embedded Software development and launching quality software into production
+ Demonstrated successful technical track record leading software development teams in complex system environments
+ Experience with safety critical development and testing in regulated environments (FDA, FAA, Automotive, Aerospace)
+ Experience with real-time operating systems or middleware
+ Proficiency with C++11 or later
**What will give you a competitive edge:**
+ Experience developing on and for embedded Linux / POSIX systems
+ Experience applying and mentoring team members on software best practices
+ Experience with ROS or other robotics middleware platforms
+ Experience with other languages: C, Python, Bash, Go
+ Experience with embedded build systems, such as buildroot or yocto
**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 $204,000-$385,000.

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:**
+ 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.
Relocation: This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.
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