Senior Software Engineer Interactive Experience
Job Summary
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our ADAS HMI team within the Interactive Experience this role you will design and deliver production automotive embedded software spanning microcontroller (MCU) and System-on-Chip (SoC) platforms. Your work will connect vehicle signals sensors and real-time controls to the services that power driver-facing alerts controls and situational-awareness experiences. You will apply strong system design and architecture skills to define clear boundaries interfaces and data flows across in-vehicle compute domains while meeting demanding requirements for safety startup time determinism resource use and reliability throughout the vehicle lifecycle.
Job Responsibilities
- Design and develop production automotive embedded systems spanning MCU firmware and SoC software using C/C.
- Translate vehicle-level requirements into implementable software architectures including component boundaries hardware and software interfaces communication protocols data flows timing budgets diagnostics and degraded-mode behavior.
- Participate in architecture reviews and communicate technical trade-offs involving latency determinism memory compute functional safety cybersecurity reliability and long-term maintainability.
- Build reliable interfaces between real-time MCU applications and SoC services that support driver controls alerts chimes lighting haptics and situational-awareness experiences.
- Design software that behaves predictably across vehicle power states startup and shutdown sequences communication faults watchdog recovery and constrained operating conditions.
- Collaborate with systems electrical HMI ADAS platform supplier and vehicle integration teams through hardware bring-up bench integration vehicle validation and production launch.
- Write clean efficient tested and well-documented C/C code that follows embedded software standards and team development practices.
- Debug complex cross-domain issues involving MCU firmware vehicle networks IPC SoC services operating-system behavior electrical interfaces and downstream applications.
- Own major vehicle features through the full development lifecycle from concept and design through implementation integration vehicle validation production launch and field maintenance.
- Improve engineering productivity through build test debugging simulation profiling or developer-workflow tooling.
- Drive shift-left quality through unit software-in-the-loop hardware-in-the-loop integration performance and fault-injection testing.
- Mentor junior engineers and serve as a technical resource for system design C/C development and cross-domain debugging.
Job Qualifications
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Computer Engineering Electrical Engineering or a related field.
- At least 5 years of professional experience developing and shipping embedded software for production products.
- Strong C/C development experience on both microcontroller and SoC-based platforms.
- Demonstrated system design and software architecture skills including decomposition of broad requirements into components interfaces and executable technical plans.
- Experience with real-time or resource-constrained MCU software such as RTOS applications board-support packages device drivers peripherals or low-level communication stacks.
- Experience with SoC software environments such as Embedded Linux QNX yocto including IPC and system resource management.
- Experience debugging and testing integrated embedded systems using tools such as in-circuit debuggers traces bus analyzers profilers SiL or HiL.
- Experience with version control code review build systems static analysis and CI/CD workflows.
Preferred Skills
- Experience creating or improving developer tooling build infrastructure automated test frameworks simulation environments diagnostics or debugging utilities.
- Experience delivering embedded software for production automotive systems and vehicle program milestones.
- Experience with automotive networks and protocols such as CAN LIN Ethernet SOME/IP DBC or UDS.
- Experience designing cross-domain communication between safety-critical or real-time MCU functions and higher-level SoC services.
- Familiarity with automotive engineering practices and standards such as ASPICE ISO 26262 AUTOSAR or MISRA C/C.
- Strong cross-functional communication skills including the ability to explain architecture decisions and build alignment among senior technical partners.
Compensation: The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance with applicable state laws. The compensation may not be representative for positions located outside of New York Colorado California or Washington.
The salary range for this role: is $129400 to $198400. 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. 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
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