Staff / Principal Software Engineer, In-Vehicle AI Experiences

General Motors Corporation; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors in Mountain View, CA is seeking Staff and Principal Software Engineers to turn ambiguous driver problems into production-ready experiences. You will work primarily in Kotlin and Android Automotive, owning features across the in-vehicle assistant stack—from conversation design to UI and on-device fulfillment.

You’ll collaborate with product, UX, vehicle software, safety, and validation teams, mentoring engineers while shaping the roadmap for in-vehicle AI experiences and delivering

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Staff: 8+ years of production software experience. Principal: 10+ years.
• Strong hands-on skills in Kotlin, Java, C++, Python or similar, with focus on Kotlin/Android.

Responsibilities

• Define and build driver-facing capabilities from concept through production.
• Own features end to end—from driver requests and conversational behavior through on-device fulfillment and UI.
• Write production Kotlin and contribute across adjacent technologies such as Python-based agent definitions, NLU, LLM orchestration, APIs, and connected services.
• Rapidly prototype new experiences, evaluate in vehicle environments, and turn ideas into reliable products.
• Partner with Product, UX, conversation design, vehicle software, systems, platform, safety, privacy, and validation teams.
• Mentor engineers through implementation, design reviews, code reviews, and collaboration.
• Help shape the roadmap for in-vehicle AI experiences and identify opportunities from emerging tech.

Skills

Kotlin

Android

Java

C++

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Work Arrangement: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Mountain View, CA three times per week at minimum or other frequency dictated by the business.

The Role GM’s Vehicle AI Experiences team is building the next generation of intelligent experiences for GM vehicles. Our mandate is simple: own what the driver can do and how it feels. We are seeking hands‑on Staff and Principal Software Engineers who can turn ambiguous customer problems into high‑quality, production‑ready experiences. You will work primarily in Kotlin and Android Automotive, while owning features across the broader in‑vehicle assistant stack—including conversation design, natural language understanding, LLM behavior, vehicle integration, connected services, and UI. The center of gravity for this role is product engineering rather than AI research or agent‑platform specialization. We value broad engineering judgment, rapid learning, and a record of shipping complete products more than expertise in any particular AI framework. This is a small, fast‑moving team. You will have substantial autonomy, remain close to the code, help determine what we build, and improve how the larger organization delivers software.

What You’ll Do

• Define and build driver‑facing capabilities from concept through production.
• Own features end to end—from the driver’s request and conversational behavior through on‑device fulfillment, vehicle integration, UI, validation, and iteration.
• Write production Kotlin and contribute across adjacent technologies such as Python‑based agent definitions, NLU, LLM orchestration, APIs, and connected services.
• Rapidly prototype new experiences, evaluate them in realistic vehicle environments, and turn successful ideas into reliable products.
• Partner with Product, UX, conversation design, vehicle software, systems, platform, safety, privacy, and validation teams.
• Make pragmatic tradeoffs among customer value, speed, reliability, latency, offline behavior, resource constraints, maintainability, and driver distraction.
• Diagnose complex issues across application, assistant, vehicle, and cloud boundaries.
• Use AI‑assisted development workflows to accelerate design, implementation, testing, debugging, and codebase understanding while maintaining a high quality bar.
• Establish reusable engineering patterns and lightweight workflows that help the team deliver faster.
• Mentor engineers through implementation, design reviews, code reviews, and direct technical collaboration.
• Help shape the roadmap for in‑vehicle AI experiences and identify opportunities that emerging technology makes possible.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Significant experience building and shipping production software: Staff: Minimum 8+ years. Principal: Minimum 10+ years.
• Strong hands‑on software development skills in Kotlin, Java, C++, Python, or a comparable language, with the ability and interest to work primarily in Kotlin and Android.
• A record of independently delivering complex, user‑facing features across multiple components or systems.
• Ability to turn ambiguous customer or business goals into concrete designs, incremental plans, and working software.
• Strong system‑design, debugging, testing, and operational‑quality judgment.
• Experience leading technical work across organizational or