Principal Software Engineer - Autonomous Vehicles (AV) Integrity Platform

Employment Type: Full-time Remote: This role is based remotely. However, if you live within a 50-mile radius of Mountain View, you are expected to report to that location at least three times a week.

Position Overview

General Motors is seeking an experienced and passionate Principal Software Engineer to join our Autonomous Vehicles (AV) Integrity Platform team. This role is critical for designing, documenting, and implementing complex, highly scalable, low-latency software in C++ for high-performance AVs. You will be responsible for foundational software that the rest of the AV development builds upon, focusing on the Autonomy Interface Software domain, including AV Sensing, AV Health, and Vehicle Abstraction solutions. We value engineering leaders who are deeply technical and understand the challenges their teams face, comfortable switching contexts between programming, architecture design, testing, debugging, and mentorship.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Collaborate across organizations to ensure coherent joint architecture across the full stack that effectively solves relevant problems.
• Maintain alignment between senior leadership and engineering teams through effective executive communication.
• Champion a high-quality bar in projects from the outset and drive quality improvements by implementing better technical practices.
• Work with other teams to define system-level architecture and implementation strategies.
• Initiate large, complex architectural projects, breaking them down into logical components for effective utilization by others.
• 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 in proposing, prototyping, evaluating, and iterating solutions, as well as supporting their career progression.
• Lead large initiatives involving multiple 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 a 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 (e.g., FDA, FAA, Automotive, Aerospace).
• Experience with real-time operating systems or middleware.
• Proficiency with C++11 or later.

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 salary range for this role is $225,000 - $385,000. This is a good faith estimate and may not be representative for positions located outside of New York, Colorado, California, or Washington.