Senior Connectivity Hardware Engineer – Automotive

General Motors; Warren (MI); Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 209,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Senior Hardware Engineer focused on connectivity platforms for automotive architectures. You will own end-to-end hardware design, drive system-level architecture, and collaborate across silicon vendors, firmware, and software teams to ensure robust performance across GM vehicle platforms.

Key responsibilities include board bring-up, high-speed interfaces, RF coexistence, and validation strategies, with a hybrid work arrangement requiring 3 days on-site in Warren, MI

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hardware development experience 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, and low-power design principles.
• Strong problem-solving skills and 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 (Qualcomm, NXP, TI) 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 development

Embedded systems

SoC-based systems

Power architecture

High-speed design

Debug system-level issues

Cross-functional collaboration

Laboratory instrumentation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field

Tools

Oscilloscopes

VNAs

Spectrum analyzers

Logic analyzers

PCB design / SI & PI tools

Job description

General Motors is seeking a Senior Hardware Engineer focused on connectivity platforms for automotive architectures. You will own end-to-end hardware design, drive system-level architecture, and collaborate across silicon vendors, firmware, and software teams to ensure robust performance across GM vehicle platforms.

Key responsibilities include board bring-up, high-speed interfaces, RF coexistence, and validation strategies, with a hybrid work arrangement requiring 3 days on-site in Warren, MI