Senior Automotive Connectivity Hardware Engineer

General Motors LLC; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 209,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Accounts

Retirement savings plan

Life insurance

Paid vacation & holidays

Tuition assistance programs

Employee assistance program

GM vehicle discounts

Job summary

General Motors in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a Senior Hardware Engineer to lead design and system integration of connectivity modules across GM vehicle platforms. You will define system architecture, drive schematic and PCB design, lead board bring‑up and ensure robust performance across operating conditions.

The role requires experience with SoC-based systems, power architecture, high-speed interfaces, and cross‑functional collaboration with silicon vendors, firmware and software teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in hardware development, including board design, system bring‑up, and debugging.
• Strong experience designing and integrating complex embedded hardware systems.
• Experience with SoC-based systems, including power architecture, clocks, resets, and boot flows.
• Experience with high-speed digital design (PCIe, USB, Ethernet, LPDDR) including signal and power integrity considerations.
• Proven ability to debug system-level issues across hardware, firmware, and RF domains.
• Experience with power delivery design, PMICs, Voltage regulators, low-power design principles, and deep sleep/wake-up flows.
• Strong problem-solving skills with ability to navigate complex, ambiguous system issues.
• Ability to independently drive technical decisions and influence cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end hardware design and bring‑up of connectivity modules from concept through production.
• Define system architecture, including SoC selection, memory (LPDDR), power architecture, and high-speed interfaces (PCIe, USB, Ethernet).
• Drive schematic design reviews and guide PCB layout, ensuring strong SI/PI, RF coexistence, and manufacturability.
• Lead board bring‑up, including power sequencing, clocking, reset, and boot initialization.
• Drive system-level integration across hardware, firmware, RF, and mechanical domains.
• Perform root‑cause analysis of complex, cross-domain issues, including interactions between silicon, board design, RF, and software.
• Make system-level tradeoffs across performance, power, cost, thermals, and reliability.
• Validate high-speed interfaces including LPDDR5, PCIe, USB, Ethernet, SPI/I2C, CAN, and LIN.
• Debug multi-domain issues such as RF desense, power noise coupling, and signal integrity degradation.
• Collaborate with silicon vendors on SoC bring‑up and interface behavior.
• Collaborate with firmware and software teams to enable platform functionality and debug system issues.
• Define validation strategy and coverage, ensuring system-level robustness across corner cases and operating conditions.
• Leverage lab instrumentation to characterize and debug system performance.

Skills

Hardware design

System bring‑up

Embedded systems

SoC-based systems

Power architecture

RF domains

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field

Tools

Oscilloscopes

VNAs

Spectrum analyzers

Logic analyzers

Job description

General Motors in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a Senior Hardware Engineer to lead design and system integration of connectivity modules across GM vehicle platforms. You will define system architecture, drive schematic and PCB design, lead board bring‑up and ensure robust performance across operating conditions.

The role requires experience with SoC-based systems, power architecture, high-speed interfaces, and cross‑functional collaboration with silicon vendors, firmware and software teams.