Principal Engineer, In-Vehicle AI Experiences (Kotlin/Android)

General Motors; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors in Mountain View, CA is hiring Staff and Principal Software Engineers to turn ambiguous driver problems into high‑quality, production‑ready features for GM's in‑vehicle AI experiences. You’ll work primarily in Kotlin and Android Automotive and own components across the driver assistant stack.

You’ll ship end‑to‑end capabilities, collaborate with product, UX, safety, and vehicle software teams, and mentor others while maintaining a pragmatic balance of value, reliability, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS, Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years for Staff or 10+ for Principal.
• Experience shipping production software.
• Strong system design and debugging.
• Experience leading technical work across teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and build driver-facing capabilities from concept through production.
• Own features end to end—from the driver’s request and conversational behavior through on-device fulfillment, vehicle integration, UI, validation, and iteration.
• Write production Kotlin and contribute across adjacent technologies such as Python-based agent definitions, NLU, LLM orchestration, APIs, and connected services.
• Rapidly prototype new experiences, evaluate them in realistic vehicle environments, and turn successful ideas into reliable products.
• Partner with Product, UX, conversation design, vehicle software, systems, platform, safety, privacy, and validation teams.
• Make pragmatic tradeoffs among customer value, speed, reliability, latency, offline behavior, resource constraints, maintainability, and driver distraction.

Skills

Kotlin

Android

C++

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Job description

General Motors in Mountain View, CA is hiring Staff and Principal Software Engineers to turn ambiguous driver problems into high‑quality, production‑ready features for GM's in‑vehicle AI experiences. You’ll work primarily in Kotlin and Android Automotive and own components across the driver assistant stack.

You’ll ship end‑to‑end capabilities, collaborate with product, UX, safety, and vehicle software teams, and mentor others while maintaining a pragmatic balance of value, reliability, and