Senior SW Engineer, Data Recording

General Motors is a company focused on building systems for observability across development and retail fleets. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to provide technical leadership for software connecting logging systems, ensuring reliable and scalable data recording and offload to backend systems.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and implementation of reliable, high-performance real-time data collection, processing, and routing systems for automotive edge devices
• Define common platform abstractions, libraries, and APIs that bridge development and retail fleet logging use cases
• Set technical direction for QoS, backpressure, data privacy, fault handling, observability, and performance reproducibility across logging components
• Build developer-facing APIs, tooling, and documentation that improve correctness, integration velocity, and long-term maintainability for internal customers
• Partner with OS, drivers, safety, controls, perception, tooling, cloud/backend, and privacy teams to deliver end-to-end platform capabilities
• Drive production rigor through code review standards, test strategy, integration testing, soak testing, performance gates, rollout/rollback planning, and operational readiness
• Mentor engineers, lead design reviews, and raise the technical bar for systems engineering within AV Logging and Data Recording

Requirements:

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience
• Significant experience building systems-level software in C and modern C++
• Deep understanding of concurrency, memory management, performance profiling, low-latency systems, and low-contention design patterns
• Experience designing IPC, messaging, or distributed data systems, including serialization, flow control, backpressure, QoS, and failure handling
• Strong ownership of production-quality software, including testing strategy, CI/build systems, observability, debugging, and operational readiness
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical design across teams and influence engineering direction without relying solely on authority
• Experience with automotive, robotics, AV, embedded Linux, QNX, or safety-adjacent systems
• Experience with high-throughput sensor data, telemetry, logging, data recording, or data offload pipelines
• Familiarity with privacy-preserving data collection, data retention policies, or fleet data governance
• Experience with Bazel, CMake, CI systems, artifact/versioning strategies, and large-scale monorepo development
• Track record mentoring engineers and improving engineering practices across a team or platform area