Senior Software Engineer - Vehicle Data & AI Platform

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Retirement savings plan

Paid vacation & holidays

Job summary

General Motors Company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Smart Collect team to design and build APIs, domain services, and data pipelines that manage vehicle data collection across fleets. You will craft end-to-end observability, improve data quality, and ensure reliable data flow from vehicles to cloud AI/ML platforms.

You’ll lead cross-team design efforts, implement scalable backend services, and mentor peers while supporting production operations and privacy considerations.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with ownership of production systems.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, 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

Production systems ownership

Python proficiency

Backend service design

Communication across teams

Event-driven architectures

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/EE

Tools

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Google Cloud

BigQuery

Pub/Sub

Kafka

Observability

Data quality systems

Job description

General Motors Company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Smart Collect team to design and build APIs, domain services, and data pipelines that manage vehicle data collection across fleets. You will craft end-to-end observability, improve data quality, and ensure reliable data flow from vehicles to cloud AI/ML platforms.

You’ll lead cross-team design efforts, implement scalable backend services, and mentor peers while supporting production operations and privacy considerations.