Principal Software Engineer, AV Platform Core

General Motors is a leading automotive company with a vision for a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions, and Zero Congestion. They are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead the development of complex, scalable software for embedded systems, particularly in the robotics domain, while ensuring high-quality standards and effective communication across teams.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• 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