General Motors

General Motors

Senior SW Engineer, Data Recording

Washington, District of Columbia · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$129k-$198kDetected 1 day ago
C++Code ReviewLinuxSystems EngineeringRoboticsElectrical EngineeringLeadershipMentoring

About the role

  • Our data powers AV debugging, validation, fleet operations, and model training, with a strong focus on privacy, data quality, reliability, and developer experience.
  • As a Senior Software Engineer, you will provide technical leadership for the software that connects our development fleet and retail fleet logging systems.
  • It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance with applicable state laws.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and implementation of reliable, high-performance real-time data collection, processing, and routing systems for automotive edge devices.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • We build the systems that provide observability across our development and retail fleets.

Requirements

  • Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)
  • 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.
  • Experience with Bazel, CMake, CI systems, artifact/versioning strategies, and large-scale monorepo development.

Nice to have

  • What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

Compensation

  • The compensation information is a good faith estimate only.
  • The compensation may not be representative for positions located outside of New York, Colorado, California, or Washington.
  • The salary range for this role is $129,400- $198,400. 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

  • GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs.
  • Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.

Company info

  • Build developer-facing APIs, tooling, and documentation that improve correctness, integration velocity, and long-term maintainability for internal customers.
  • We're AV Logging and Data Recording within AV Platform Core at General Motors.
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