Principal Software Engineer, AV Platform Core

Description

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.

This role is based remotely, but if the selected candidate lives within a specific mile radius of a GM hub, they will be expected to report to the location three times a week {or other frequency dictated by your manager}.

This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.

The position is subject to export control restrictions and requires the successful candidate to be a U.S. Person (U.S. citizen, U.S. permanent resident, asylee or refugee)

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Client-provided location(s): Flexible / Remote, Sunnyvale, CA

Job ID: General_Motors-JR-202603583

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2026-02-18T00:14:25