Tech Lead Manager, AV Core Services

Job Description

The Role: 

Come build the future of self-driving at GM. The Autonomous Vehicle Launch team is responsible for configuring, executing, and monitoring our autonomous driving applications. We develop onboard services that orchestrate on-vehicle activities across distributed computers. Our systems are among the first to start when a vehicle powers on and the last to shut down during power off. Our team interfaces with production vehicles, manufacturing lines, developer environments, cloud services, and more. 

As a Tech Lead Manager in the AV Launch team, you’ll develop embedded applications and frameworks that provision, execute, instrument, and monitor our self-driving stack. You’ll collaborate with other teams to engineer onboard workflows and use cases. The systems you build will be deployed onto vehicles, hardware benches, and in simulations. Your efforts will directly influence how other teams design and build the next generation of self-driving software at GM. 

What You’ll Do:

• Build on-vehicle services that provision, execute, and monitor autonomous vehicle software in development and production workflows 

• Build frameworks to configure self-driving software for a wide variety of simulation environments, hardware platforms, and use cases 

• Develop systems and frameworks to monitor vehicle status and exfiltrate data 

• Collaborate with colleagues across multiple teams and mentor other developers 

• Deliver complex projects through incremental development 

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications) 

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM field or relevant work experience 

• 8+ years of experience building and shipping production-quality software, with a focus in Linux-based environments 

• Strong background in modern C++ and Python development 

• Experience working with and building tooling for large systems 

• A high standard and commitment to quality by designing for testability 

What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Skills) 

• Track record of developing projects from initial design through customer release 

• Experience with robotics middleware platforms and related concepts, such as inter-process communication or logging 

• Experience designing software for CPU and memory-constrained environments, or interfacing with hardware 

• Strong verbal and written communication skills to convey design intent to stakeholders and document system behavior 

Compensation: The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance with applicable state laws. The compensation may not be representative for positions located outside of the California Bay Area. 

• The salary range for this role is $189,000 to $290,700. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position. 

• Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance. 

Relocation: This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.

Benefits: 

• Benefits: GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs. Benefit options include medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance programs, employee assistance program, GM vehicle discounts and more. 

Remote/Hybrid: This role is based remotely but if you live within a 50-mile radius of [Mountain View, Detroit, Warren, Milford], you are expected to report to that location three times a week, at minimum. 

This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location at least 3 times a week {or other frequency dictated by their manager}. This job may be eligible for relocation benefits. The position is subject to export control restrictions and requires the successful candidate to be a U.S. Person (U.S. citizen, U.S. permanent resident, asylee or refugee).

About GM

Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.

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