Senior Rendering Systems Engineer AV Simulation at Scale

General Motors; Sunnyvale, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 153,000 - 234,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

GM vehicle discounts

Tuition assistance

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Rendering Infrastructure team. You will build systems turning a GPU-accelerated sensor simulator into a scalable production platform, running on clusters with deterministic timing for AV interfaces.

The role requires deep C++ and Python experience, ROS, CUDA, NVIDIA OptiX, NVIDIA MDL, and OpenUSD. You will interface with AV stacks and large-scale deployments, ensuring reproducible runs and efficient resource usage across thousands of

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proficiency in modern C++ (C++17/20) and Python.
• Experience with distributed systems and IPC.

Responsibilities

• Connect the renderer to AV stacks and compute clusters with low latency and high bandwidth.
• Integrate renderer with learning models and Gymnasium-style envs.
• Collaborate across rendering, simulation, perception, and infrastructure teams.
• Prototype and validate deterministic execution and timing models for GPU-accelerated simulation.

Skills

C++

Python

ROS/ROS 2

GPU programming

CUDA

OpenUSD

OptiX

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Python tooling

Job description

General Motors is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Rendering Infrastructure team. You will build systems turning a GPU-accelerated sensor simulator into a scalable production platform, running on clusters with deterministic timing for AV interfaces.

The role requires deep C++ and Python experience, ROS, CUDA, NVIDIA OptiX, NVIDIA MDL, and OpenUSD. You will interface with AV stacks and large-scale deployments, ensuring reproducible runs and efficient resource usage across thousands of