Senior Connectivity Hardware Engineer — Automotive Modules

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

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Senior Hardware Engineer in a hybrid role with on-site expectations at Sunnyvale, CA or Warren, MI. You will lead the architecture, bring-up, and integration of connectivity modules across GM vehicle platforms, coordinating across hardware, firmware, RF, and mechanical teams.

The role requires SoC-based system expertise, high-speed interface design, and robust problem-solving skills to ensure reliable performance in automotive environments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in hardware development
• 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

SoC-based systems

PCB design

Power architecture

Signal integrity

RF coexistence

Board bring-up

Education

B.S. Electrical Engineering

Master’s degree in engineering

Tools

Oscilloscopes

VNAs

Spectrum analyzers

Logic analyzers

Job description

General Motors is seeking a Senior Hardware Engineer in a hybrid role with on-site expectations at Sunnyvale, CA or Warren, MI. You will lead the architecture, bring-up, and integration of connectivity modules across GM vehicle platforms, coordinating across hardware, firmware, RF, and mechanical teams.

The role requires SoC-based system expertise, high-speed interface design, and robust problem-solving skills to ensure reliable performance in automotive environments.