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Generalmotors

Staff Electrical Hardware Engineer - Central Compute

Sunnyvale, California, United States of America · Staff+

Sponsorship not specified$159k-$245kDetected 2 days ago
PCB DesignEMI/EMCSystems EngineeringElectrical EngineeringHardware DesignPower ElectronicsLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingMentoring

About the role

  • Job Description Role Summary General Motors is accelerating the development of next-generation Central Compute, ADAS, and software-defined vehicle platforms.
  • This role requires deep expertise in electrical hardware development combined with strong system-level thinking and cross-functional leadership.

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive electrical hardware architecture for Central Compute and high-performance compute platforms.
  • Own system partitioning, power architecture, clocking strategies, high-speed interconnects, redundancy concepts, and hardware scalability.
  • Lead technical trade studies and make architecture recommendations balancing performance, cost, reliability, manufacturability, and future platform needs.
  • Establish design guidelines, best practices, and technical standards across hardware development teams.
  • Review and approve critical design decisions throughout product development.
  • Hardware Design & Development
  • Provide technical oversight for complex mixed-signal, high-speed digital, and power circuitry designs.
  • Guide schematic development, component selection, and design optimization activities.
  • Lead design reviews and ensure compliance with electrical, thermal, reliability, safety, and EMC requirements.
  • Drive PCB design strategy, including signal integrity, power integrity, grounding, and EMI/EMC mitigation approaches.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.
  • 10+ years of experience developing automotive or other high-complexity electronic systems.
  • Proven experience leading hardware architecture and complex ECU development programs.
  • Extensive experience with schematic design, electrical analysis, and hardware debugging.
  • Applicants in the recruitment process may be required, where applicable, to successfully complete a role-related assessment(s) and/or a pre-employment screening prior to beginning employment.

Nice to have

  • Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or related discipline.
  • Experience leading Central Compute, ADAS, autonomous driving, or high-performance compute platforms.
  • Deep knowledge of Ethernet, PCIe, DDR, SerDes, and other high-speed interfaces.
  • Strong understanding of ISO 26262 Functional Safety and cybersecurity requirements.
  • Experience defining hardware platform strategies and product roadmaps.
  • Experience working with global engineering teams and semiconductor suppliers.
  • Proven success launching complex production ECUs in automotive environments.
  • An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.

Compensation

  • The compensation information is a good faith estimate only.
  • The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position, as well as geography of the selected candidate.
  • The salary range for this role is ($159,400 - 245,000). 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.
  • Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.
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Company info

  • From day one, we're looking out for your well-being-at work and at home-so you can focus on realizing your ambitions.

Equal opportunity

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Visa & Work Authorization

  • All employment decisions are made on a non-discriminatory basis without regard to sex, race, color, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, pregnancy or maternity status, sexual orientation, gende
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