Senior Embedded Software Engineer — Automotive ADAS

General Motors; Brighton Charter Township (MI); On-site; USD 129,000 - 198,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing benefits

GM vehicle discounts

Retirement savings plan

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the ADAS HMI team within the Interactive Experience platform. You will design and deliver production automotive embedded software spanning MCU and SoC platforms, connecting vehicle signals, sensors and real-time controls to driver-facing alerts and situational awareness features.

The role emphasizes systems design, architecture, and clear interfaces across in-vehicle compute domains, with emphasis on safety, startup time, determinism,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• At least 5 years of professional experience developing and shipping embedded software for production products.
• Strong C/C++ development experience on both microcontroller and SoC-based platforms.
• Demonstrated system design and software architecture skills, including decomposition of broad requirements into components, interfaces, and executable technical plans.
• Experience with real-time or resource-constrained MCU software, such as RTOS applications, board-support packages, device drivers, peripherals, or low-level communication stacks.
• Experience with SoC software environments, such as Embedded Linux, QNX, yocto, including IPC and system resource management.
• Experience debugging and testing integrated embedded systems using tools such as in-circuit debuggers, traces, bus analyzers, profilers, SiL, or HiL.
• Experience with version control, code review, build systems, static analysis, and CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop production automotive embedded systems spanning MCU firmware and SoC software using C/C++.
• Translate vehicle-level requirements into implementable software architectures, including component boundaries, hardware and software interfaces, communication protocols, data flows, timing budgets, diagnostics, and degraded-mode behavior.
• Participate in architecture reviews and communicate technical trade-offs involving latency, determinism, memory, compute, functional safety, cybersecurity, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
• Build reliable interfaces between real-time MCU applications and SoC services that support driver controls, alerts, chimes, lighting, haptics, and situational-awareness experiences.
• Design software that behaves predictably across vehicle power states, startup and shutdown sequences, communication faults, watchdog recovery, and constrained operating conditions.
• Collaborate with systems, electrical, HMI, ADAS, platform, supplier, and vehicle integration teams through hardware bring-up, bench integration, vehicle validation, and production launch.
• Write clean, efficient, tested, and well-documented C/C++ code that follows embedded software standards and team development practices.
• Debug complex cross-domain issues involving MCU firmware, vehicle networks, IPC, SoC services, operating-system behavior, electrical interfaces, and downstream applications.
• Own major vehicle features through the full development lifecycle, from concept and design through implementation, integration, vehicle validation, production launch, and field maintenance.
• Improve engineering productivity through build, test, debugging, simulation, profiling, or developer-workflow tooling.
• Drive shift-left quality through unit, software-in-the-loop, hardware-in-the-loop, integration, performance, and fault-injection testing.
• Mentor junior engineers and serve as a technical resource for system design, C/C++ development, and cross-domain debugging.

Skills

C/C++

Embedded software

RTOS

Embedded Linux

QNX

CI/CD

Debugging

Architecture design

Education

BS/MS in engineering

Tools

In-circuit debuggers

Bus analyzers

Profilers

SiL/HiL

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

General Motors is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the ADAS HMI team within the Interactive Experience platform. You will design and deliver production automotive embedded software spanning MCU and SoC platforms, connecting vehicle signals, sensors and real-time controls to driver-facing alerts and situational awareness features.

The role emphasizes systems design, architecture, and clear interfaces across in-vehicle compute domains, with emphasis on safety, startup time, determinism,