Staff SoC Software Engineer - ADAS & Driver Monitoring

General Motors; Milford Charter Township (MI); On-site; USD 189,000 - 291,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing benefits

Job summary

General Motors seeks a Staff Software Engineer to lead SoC software architecture for ADAS HMI on automotive SoCs. You will shape production software on constrained edge devices, build a groundbreaking driver monitoring system, and drive cross‑functional teams across vehicle platforms.

You will own end‑to‑end designs, guide architecture reviews, and mentor engineers while ensuring low latency, high reliability, and scalable release processes for safety‑critical software.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related field with 5–8 years of software engineering experience; or 10–12 years delivering production software.
• Staff-level experience designing and shipping complex embedded or SoC-based production systems with multi‑team scope, broad technical ambiguity, and end‑to‑end accountability.
• Deep C/C++ development experience for SoC applications, services, or middleware.
• Hands‑on experience with Embedded Linux, QNX, or a comparable SoC operating environment, including IPC, multithreading, and system resource management.
• Demonstrated system design expertise across application, middleware, data, operating‑system, and hardware boundaries, including interfaces, data flows, state management, failure modes, and validation strategies.
• Proven ability to own roadmaps, commitments, risks, dependencies, and release quality without day‑to‑day direction.
• Experience diagnosing and optimizing complex integrated systems using logs, traces, profilers, memory‑analysis tools, performance benchmarks, and automated tests.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to influence architecture and priority decisions across teams without direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve end-to-end SoC architecture spanning ADAS data producers, vehicle interfaces, operating–system services, middleware, hardware accelerators, and downstream HMI applications.
• Architect and build a next-generation driver monitoring system from the ground up, spanning camera and sensor inputs, on-device perception and inference, driver‑state interpretation, vehicle interfaces, diagnostics, and HMI integration.
• Lead the design and development of production SoC applications and services using C/C++, including data processing, state management, inter-process communication, and platform integration.
• Translate ambiguous product, vehicle, safety, and system requirements into practical cross-domain designs with clear boundaries, interfaces, data flows, timing budgets, diagnostics, failure modes, and validation strategies.
• Drive architecture reviews and align teams on technical trade‑offs involving performance, memory, compute, startup behavior, security, safety, reliability, and long‑term maintainability.
• Own complex multi-team workstreams through design, implementation, integration, performance tuning, vehicle validation, release, launch support, and maintenance.
• Establish architecture and engineering practices for reliable, low‑latency pipelines that collect, normalize, and expose ADAS and vehicle data to multiple on-device consumers.
• Foresee integration and delivery risks across ADAS algorithm, perception, HMI, platform, systems, safety, and vehicle integration teams; develop mitigation plans and remove critical blockers.
• Define quality standards and release criteria across related SoC codebases, including code review, static analysis, automated testing, performance benchmarking, observability, and structured release processes.
• Diagnose and lead resolution of complex cross‑system issues involving IPC, scheduling, memory use, concurrency, operating‑system behavior, hardware acceleration, and vehicle integration.
• Develop practical technology roadmaps for SoC services and edge‑compute capabilities across vehicle programs and platform generations.
• Mentor senior and mid‑level engineers on SoC architecture, C/C++ development, performance analysis, system debugging, execution discipline, and cross‑team technical leadership.
• Communicate technical direction, risks, trade‑offs, and delivery status clearly to senior engineering leadership and cross‑functional stakeholders.

Skills

C/C++ development

SoC architecture

Embedded Linux / QNX

System design

Edge ML on embedded devices

IPC / multithreading

ROS 2 / SOME/IP / DDS

Data processing & pipelines

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Yocto

Board-support packages

Containerized workloads

Job description

General Motors seeks a Staff Software Engineer to lead SoC software architecture for ADAS HMI on automotive SoCs. You will shape production software on constrained edge devices, build a groundbreaking driver monitoring system, and drive cross‑functional teams across vehicle platforms.

You will own end‑to‑end designs, guide architecture reviews, and mentor engineers while ensuring low latency, high reliability, and scalable release processes for safety‑critical software.