Staff Electrical Hardware Architect - Central Compute & ADAS

generalmotors; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 159,000 - 245,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing benefits

GM Employee discounts

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Staff Electrical Hardware Engineer to lead hardware architectures for Central Compute and high-performance platforms. You will guide design, reviews, and reliability work while coordinating across software, systems, and supplier teams to ensure scalable, safe, and producible solutions.

You will mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions, and align hardware strategies with program goals across EV and autonomous platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• 10+ years of experience developing automotive or other high-complexity electronic systems.
• Strong expertise in analog, digital, mixed-signal, and power electronics design.
• Proven experience leading hardware architecture and complex ECU development programs.
• Extensive experience with schematic design, electrical analysis, and hardware debugging.
• Deep understanding of WCCA, DFMEA, reliability engineering, and hardware development processes.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical decisions and influence cross-functional teams.
• Strong communication, presentation, and technical leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive electrical hardware architecture for Central Compute and high-performance compute platforms.
• Own system partitioning, power architecture, clocking strategies, high-speed interconnects, redundancy concepts, and hardware scalability.
• Lead technical trade studies and make architecture recommendations balancing performance, cost, reliability, manufacturability, and future platform needs.
• Establish design guidelines, best practices, and technical standards across hardware development teams.
• Review and approve critical design decisions throughout product development.
• Provide technical oversight for complex mixed-signal, high-speed digital, and power circuitry designs.
• Guide schematic development, component selection, and design optimization activities.
• Lead design reviews and ensure compliance with electrical, thermal, reliability, safety, and EMC requirements.
• Drive PCB design strategy, including signal integrity, power integrity, grounding, and EMI/EMC mitigation approaches.
• Lead electrical robustness assessments (WCCA, power integrity, interface margin, thermal derating).
• Drive DFMEA development and mitigation strategies across subsystems and system interactions.
• Partner with Functional Safety teams to ensure hardware compliance with ISO 26262 and safety goals.
• Champion design-for-reliability and design-for-manufacturability initiatives.
• Lead first-board bring-up, integration, and debugging for advanced compute platforms.
• Direct root cause investigations involving hardware, software, systems, manufacturing, and supplier teams.
• Resolve cross-domain issues impacting performance, reliability, or production readiness.
• Drive corrective actions and lessons learned across programs.
• Define and govern Hardware Software Interface Specifications (HSIS).
• Collaborate with software and systems engineering on boot architecture, drivers, diagnostics, firmware dependencies, and platform integration.
• Ensure hardware architectures support software scalability and maintainability.
• Influence platform-level integration strategies across compute domains.
• Provide technical leadership across EV, DV, PV, and production launch phases.
• Guide hardware verification planning and validation strategy development.
• Ensure test coverage aligns with system requirements, safety objectives, and reliability targets.

Skills

Hardware architecture leadership

System-level thinking

Cross-functional leadership

Reliability engineering & DFMEA

Schematic design & PCB bring-up

Power electronics & high-speed inters

ISO 26262 familiarity

Technical decision-making

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering

Job description

General Motors is seeking a Staff Electrical Hardware Engineer to lead hardware architectures for Central Compute and high-performance platforms. You will guide design, reviews, and reliability work while coordinating across software, systems, and supplier teams to ensure scalable, safe, and producible solutions.

You will mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions, and align hardware strategies with program goals across EV and autonomous platforms.