Senior Backend Engineer - Vehicle Data & AI Platforms

General Motors; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 171,000 - 261,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing benefits

Hybrid work arrangement

Relocation benefits

Job summary

General Motors seeks a Senior Software Engineer for the Smart Collect platform, focusing on services, integrations, automation, and end-to-end observability. You will ensure data flows reliably from vehicles into AI/ML and analytics platforms with strong quality, privacy, and operations guarantees.

You will collaborate with AI research, data engineering, vehicle engineering, data science, product, and operations teams to deliver dependable services across GM programs and scale across fleets.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including ownership of production systems.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Proficiency in Python or another modern backend programming language.
• Strong experience designing scalable backend services, APIs, and relational data models.
• Experience with event-driven architectures, asynchronous workflows, data ingestion, testing, debugging, and production operations.
• Ability to communicate technical decisions and lead work across organizational boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop APIs, domain services, event-driven workflows, and vehicle-recording metadata pipelines.
• Build services and user experiences for defining collection events and triggers, selecting data, generating and validating configurations, deploying campaigns, and monitoring results.
• Design version-aware workflows that reconcile signals, schemas, hardware capabilities, and software compatibility across vehicle platforms.
• Improve visibility into campaign health, fleet coverage, recording volume, ingestion latency, and data quality.
• Lead technical design and deliver cross-team initiatives involving vehicle recording, fleet management, data platforms, autonomy, privacy, product, and program teams.
• Raise the engineering bar through architecture reviews, automated testing, code reviews, technical mentorship, and production support.

Skills

Software engineering

Python

Backend services design

Event-driven architectures

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/EE/Engineering

Tools

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Google Cloud

BigQuery

Pub/Sub

Kafka

Observability platforms

Data-quality systems

Job description

General Motors seeks a Senior Software Engineer for the Smart Collect platform, focusing on services, integrations, automation, and end-to-end observability. You will ensure data flows reliably from vehicles into AI/ML and analytics platforms with strong quality, privacy, and operations guarantees.

You will collaborate with AI research, data engineering, vehicle engineering, data science, product, and operations teams to deliver dependable services across GM programs and scale across fleets.