Staff Quality Specialist - AVIPv Tools infrastructure

General Motors; Markham; Hybrid; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading automotive company in York Region is seeking a Staff Software Test Specialist to lead the design of advanced test frameworks and tools. The ideal candidate has over 8 years of experience, significant technical leadership, and extensive knowledge of multiple programming languages including C/C++ and Python. This hybrid role involves collaboration with various business units to ensure high-quality software testing in automotive platforms.

Benefits

Paid time off

Healthcare benefits

Life insurance plans

Pension plan contributions

GM Vehicle Purchase Plan

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Software Development Engineer in Test or similar role.
• 2-3 years in technical leadership.
• Deep experience designing and maintaining robust test infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of advanced test frameworks and tools.
• Define and drive overall test capability strategy.
• Integrate test capabilities into CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

C/C++

Rust

Python

Go

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Electrical Engineering, or related field

Tools

CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD)

Open-source automation frameworks (e.g., Robot)

Hardware-in-the-loop test platforms

Job description

Overview

Work Arrangement: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to the office three days per week, at minimum

At General Motors, we envision a future characterized by zero crashes, zero emissions, and zero congestion. We are pioneering the next generation of vehicle compute platforms, revolutionizing automotive software development, and integrating seamless connections between cloud and edge resources. Join us as we lead the way towards a sustainable and safe automotive future.

The Role

GM is developing the next generation of embedded platform software to deliver state-of-the-art features to our customers. To achieve that goal, our testing processes, tools, and infrastructure need to evolve. We are looking for energetic engineers to deliver high quality test tools and infrastructure to ensure the correctness of our software.

The AV Integrity Platform (AVIP) Verification team is responsible for testing and driving quality of the ADAS diagnostic software as well as the software that configures devices like lidars, cameras, radars, and IMUs and delivers sensor data to the AV stack running on GM vehicles.

This is an exciting and challenging opportunity to ensure the delivery of robust, scalable, and high-performance software. We are looking for a hands-on technical leader to dive deep into our testing tool chain and test frameworks. Standardize and create tools to aid in software verification, define test capability growth strategies, and implement new processes to streamline our quality.

As a Staff Software Test Specialist, you will take input from various customer teams and, partnering with the CTC Software Development & Integration lab, bring their need for comprehensive testing to life. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with different business units throughout GM and pursue technical and leadership growth.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and implementation of advanced test frameworks, tools, and infrastructure.

• Define and drive the overall test capability strategy for complex features and end-to-end systems, ensuring comprehensive test coverage enablement.

• Evaluate and recommend new technologies, tools, and best practices to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of our testing processes.

• Contribute significantly to the architectural design and review of new features and systems from a testability, reliability, and performance perspective.

• Drive a culture of quality throughout the development lifecycle, advocating for shift-left testing principles.

• Develop and maintain robust, scalable, and maintainable testing capabilities (unit, integration, API, performance, security) using various programming languages (e.g., C++, Rust, Go, Python) at various testing levels (SIL, Bench, Vehicle, etc).

• Integrate test capabilities into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring continuous feedback and early detection of issues.

• Implement advanced monitoring and alerting for production systems to identify and proactively address quality issues.

• Champion best practices in software development, testing, and quality assurance across the engineering organization as well as maintain comprehensive metrics to evaluate strategy effectiveness.

• Support SW Test Specialists across the AVIP Verification organization to break down testing roadblocks and complete text execution deliverables.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• 8+ years of progressive experience as a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) or a similar role, with at least 2-3 years in technical leadership.

• 10+ years of experience in multiple programming languages such asC/C++, Rust,Python,Go,etc.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.

• Deep experience designing, building andmaintainingrobust test infrastructure (e.g.,Open Loop benches, Closed loop benches, Vehicle instrumentation, etc.).

• Strong understanding and hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g.Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions,BuildKite,Azure DevOps).

What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

• Understanding of Vehicle Electrical Architecture and common automotive software design practices.

• Understanding of typical fault insertion techniques

• Experienceusing and development on open-source automation frameworkssuch asRobot.

• Experience building andmaintaininghardware-in-the-loop test platforms.

• 5+ years of experience in Automotive SW Test or Development, including experience with test automation and test or software architecture.

• Experience withbuildsystems such as Bazel, or alternatives likeCMakeor Meson.

• Familiarity with embedded Linux build systems such asBuildrootorYocto.

• Experience working with sensor technologies, particularly automotive grade (cameras, lidars, radars, IMUs)

GM DOES NOT PROVIDE IMMIGRATION-RELATED SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE. DO NOT APPLY FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU WILLNEED GM IMMIGRATION SPONSORSHIP NOW OR IN THE FUTURE.

Benefits Overview

The goal of the General Motors of Canada total rewards program is to support the health and well-being of you and your family. Our comprehensive compensation plan currently includes the following benefits, in addition to many others:

• Paid time off including vacation days, holidays, and supplemental benefits for pregnancy, parental and adoption leave;

• Healthcare, dental, and vision benefits;

• Life insurance plans to cover you and your family;

• Company and matching contributions to a Defined Contribution Pension plan to help you save for retirement;

• GM Vehicle Purchase Plan for you, your family and friends.