Software Engineer, AV Platform MCU

General Motors LLC; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors LLC is seeking a Software Engineer for the AV MCU Platform team to own moderate-scope embedded software features across the MCU01 subsystem. You will contribute throughout the development lifecycle from requirements through release, collaborating with systems, hardware, safety, cybersecurity, and validation teams to deliver production-quality software.

The role emphasizes debugging, diagnostics, and robust handling of initialization, state transitions, and fault recovery on

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or a related STEM field
• 2+ years of experience building and shipping production quality embedded software
• Background in C Embedded Software development
• Understanding software development lifecycle practices, source control, CI, and issue tracking
• Experience with RTOS (QNX, FreeRTOS, OSEK, etc.)
• Strong communication skills with ability to switch between high-level and detailed discussions

Responsibilities

• Reproduce and diagnose software failures using logs, traces, debugger data, telemetry, test evidence, and controlled experiments
• Perform structured root-cause analysis for crashes, memory faults, timing issues, race conditions, communication failures, watchdog resets, and unexpected state transitions
• Design, develop, integrate, and maintain embedded C software for multi-core microcontrollers
• Implement moderate-scope features, enhancements, integrations, and defect fixes within the assigned software component
• Develop across the automotive embedded software stack including BSP, BSW, middleware, RTOS services, drivers, and application software
• Write maintainable, modular, efficient, and testable code aligned with team standards
• Handle initialization, state transitions, communication errors, diagnostics, degraded operation, watchdog events, and fault recovery
• Analyze impact of changes on interfaces, timing, memory, CPU utilization, configuration, and dependent components

Skills

C Embedded Software

RTOS (QNX/FreeRTOS/OSEK)

Debugging with logs/trace data

Multi-core MCU development

Software diagnostics & troubleshooting

Collaborative cross-team work

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science/engineering

Masters degree in related STEM field (nice-to-have)

Tools

JIRA

DOORs NG

Confluence

Github

Lauterbach

Visual Studio Code

Job description

About the Team

The Autonomous Vehicle Microcontrollers team develops embedded platform software that provides the foundation for AV systems. Our software communicates with sensors, supports vehicle operation, provides observability, manages system health, and enables reliable operation of vehicle and platform functions.

About the Role

As a Software Engineer on the AV MCU Platform team, you will independently own moderate-scope software features, components, or sub-projects related to MCU01. You will contribute across the development lifecycle‚ from requirements and design through implementation, integration, testing, debugging, documentation, and release support. You will work closely with systems, hardware, safety, cybersecurity, integration, and validation teams to deliver production-quality embedded software. Come build the future of self-driving at GM.

What You’ll Do (Responsibilities)

• Reproduce and diagnose software failures using logs, traces, debugger data, telemetry, test evidence, and controlled experiments.
• Perform structured root-cause analysis for crashes, memory faults, timing issues, race conditions, communication failures, watchdog resets, and unexpected state transitions as applicable.
• Design, develop, integrate, and maintain embedded C software for multi-core microcontrollers.
• Implement moderate-scope features, enhancements, integrations, and defect fixes within the assigned software component or subsystem.
• Develop across the applicable automotive embedded software stack, including BSP, BSW, middleware, RTOS services, drivers, and application software.
• Write maintainable, modular, efficient, and testable code consistent with team coding standards.
• Implement robust handling for initialization, state transitions, communication errors, diagnostics, degraded operation, watchdog events, and fault recovery as applicable.
• Analyze the impact of software changes on interfaces, timing, memory, CPU utilization, configuration, and dependent components.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• Bachelors degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or a related STEM field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
• Ability to diagnose software issues using logs, traces, debuggers, test results, and other technical evidence.
• 2+ years of experience building and shipping production quality embedded software
• Background in C Embedded Software development
• Understanding software development lifecycle practices, source control, code reviews, continuous integration, and issue tracking.
• Experience working with RTOS (such as QNX, FreeRTOS, OSEK, etc.)
• Good communication skills, capable of switching between high-level and detailed discussions

Preferred Qualifications (Nice-to-Have)

• Experience with robotics, autonomous vehicles, automotive embedded systems, or ADAS development
• Experience working with AUTOSAR
• Experience working in a Safety Critical Embedded Software Environment (ISO 26262, DO-178C, MIL-STD-882E)
• Experience with JIRA, DOORs NG, Confluence, Github, Lauterbach, Visual Studio Code.
• Experience developing software that scales to millions of instances and managing it
• Ability to adapt and operate under ambiguity, going from quick code prototypes to long-term plans on brief time horizons
• 2+ years of experience building and shipping production quality embedded software
• Masters degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or a related STEM field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.

Eligibility & Working Details

GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply for this role if you will need GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future. This includes direct company sponsorship, entry of GM as the immigration employer of record on a government form, and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g., H1-B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc).

This role is categorized as onsite. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location on a full-time basis. The selected candidate will be required to travel <25% for this role. This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.

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