Staff Software Engineer, Reliability

Job Description

About

The AV platform team develops the first layers of software on the GM Autonomous Vehicles from working with hardware to moving large amounts of data up the software stack. Within this, the Autonomy Interface SW team develops environmental sensing solutions on multiple vehicle platforms.

Role

As a Staff Software Engineers, you are the expert professionals identifying and pursuing new paths of inquiry at GM. As GM’s AV business continues to scale rapidly, building a stable, scalable, flexible, cost-efficient, and reliable foundation is critical. This role will specifically work on the multi-sensor system services and frameworks in collaboration with our partner teams across GM. 

 
What you'll be doing: 

• Collaborate with hardware, systems engineering, program management, product management and peer software teams to develop critical reliability software features for the autonomous vehicle. Includes developing and debugging of application and middleware software for existing and next generation sensing data pipelines on the vehicle 

• Root-cause analysis of complex problems involving multiple cross-functional partners, including hardware and software 

• Identify reliability issue trends, provide clear guidance on reliability requirements, develop reliability design guidelines, and apply lessons learned to enable continuous improvement 

• Design and implement shared infrastructure and tooling among the AV Platform teams to monitor and analyze embedded software and data quality metrics. Identify opportunities to unify approaches, improve reliability and increase developer velocity 

• Own the development quality and ensure the solutions are scalable, secure, and optimized for customer experience and performance. Raise the bar on engineering 
  excellence by producing best-in-class code, documentation, testing, and monitoring. 

• Partner with cross-functional teams to architect and implement embedded software observability and monitoring solutions 

• Work with the engineering teams to architect and build services to simplify 
  troubleshooting and operational response to incidents and Autonomous Vehicles fleet outages 

• Own technical projects, participate in design reviews and provide input for the reliability section of others’ design reviews 

• Ensure efficiency of the vehicle change process involving embedded software changes and dependencies 

• Participate in on-call rotation 

• High focus on collecting and