Design and deliver production automotive embedded software across MCU and SoC platforms for ADAS HMI experiences. Responsibilities include software architecture, real-time and cross-domain communication, vehicle signal integration, diagnostics, testing, debugging, validation, production launch, tooling improvements, and mentoring. The role requires collaboration across systems, electrical, HMI, ADAS, platform, supplier, and vehicle integration teams while meeting safety, performance, reliability, and maintainability requirements.
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Senior Software Engineer - ADAS Interactive Experience
Job Summary
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our ADAS HMI team within the Interactive Experience platform. In this role, you will design and deliver production automotive embedded software spanning microcontroller (MCU) and System-on-Chip (SoC) platforms. Your work will connect vehicle signals, sensors, and real-time controls to the services that power driver-facing alerts, controls, and situational-awareness experiences. You will apply strong system design and architecture skills to define clear boundaries, interfaces, and data flows across in-vehicle compute domains while meeting demanding requirements for safety, startup time, determinism, resource use, and reliability throughout the vehicle lifecycle.
Job Responsibilities
Job Qualifications
Preferred Skills
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.
Why Join Us
We believe we all must make a choice every day - individually and collectively - to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.
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All employment decisions are made on a non-discriminatory basis without regard to sex, race, color, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, pregnancy or maternity status, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran or protected veteran, or any other similarly protected status in accordance with federal, state and local laws.
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Senior Software Engineer - ADAS Interactive Experience
Job Summary
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our ADAS HMI team within the Interactive Experience platform. In this role, you will design and deliver production automotive embedded software spanning microcontroller (MCU) and System-on-Chip (SoC) platforms. Your work will connect vehicle signals, sensors, and real-time controls to the services that power driver-facing alerts, controls, and situational-awareness experiences. You will apply strong system design and architecture skills to define clear boundaries, interfaces, and data flows across in-vehicle compute domains while meeting demanding requirements for safety, startup time, determinism, resource use, and reliability throughout the vehicle lifecycle.
Job Responsibilities
- Design and develop production automotive embedded systems spanning MCU firmware and SoC software using C/C++.
- Translate vehicle-level requirements into implementable software architectures, including component boundaries, hardware and software interfaces, communication protocols, data flows, timing budgets, diagnostics, and degraded-mode behavior.
- Participate in architecture reviews and communicate technical trade-offs involving latency, determinism, memory, compute, functional safety, cybersecurity, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
- Build reliable interfaces between real-time MCU applications and SoC services that support driver controls, alerts, chimes, lighting, haptics, and situational-awareness experiences.
- Design software that behaves predictably across vehicle power states, startup and shutdown sequences, communication faults, watchdog recovery, and constrained operating conditions.
- Collaborate with systems, electrical, HMI, ADAS, platform, supplier, and vehicle integration teams through hardware bring-up, bench integration, vehicle validation, and production launch.
- Write clean, efficient, tested, and well-documented C/C++ code that follows embedded software standards and team development practices.
- Debug complex cross-domain issues involving MCU firmware, vehicle networks, IPC, SoC services, operating-system behavior, electrical interfaces, and downstream applications.
- Own major vehicle features through the full development lifecycle, from concept and design through implementation, integration, vehicle validation, production launch, and field maintenance.
- Improve engineering productivity through build, test, debugging, simulation, profiling, or developer-workflow tooling.
- Drive shift-left quality through unit, software-in-the-loop, hardware-in-the-loop, integration, performance, and fault-injection testing.
- Mentor junior engineers and serve as a technical resource for system design, C/C++ development, and cross-domain debugging.
Job Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- At least 5 years of professional experience developing and shipping embedded software for production products.
- Strong C/C++ development experience on both microcontroller and SoC-based platforms.
- Demonstrated system design and software architecture skills, including decomposition of broad requirements into components, interfaces, and executable technical plans.
- Experience with real-time or resource-constrained MCU software, such as RTOS applications, board-support packages, device drivers, peripherals, or low-level communication stacks.
- Experience with SoC software environments, such as Embedded Linux, QNX, yocto, including IPC and system resource management.
- Experience debugging and testing integrated embedded systems using tools such as in-circuit debuggers, traces, bus analyzers, profilers, SiL, or HiL.
- Experience with version control, code review, build systems, static analysis, and CI/CD workflows.
Preferred Skills
- Experience creating or improving developer tooling, build infrastructure, automated test frameworks, simulation environments, diagnostics, or debugging utilities.
- Experience delivering embedded software for production automotive systems and vehicle program milestones.
- Experience with automotive networks and protocols such as CAN, LIN, Ethernet, SOME/IP, DBC, or UDS.
- Experience designing cross-domain communication between safety-critical or real-time MCU functions and higher-level SoC services.
- Familiarity with automotive engineering practices and standards such as ASPICE, ISO 26262, AUTOSAR, or MISRA C/C++.
- Strong cross-functional communication skills, including the ability to explain architecture decisions and build alignment among senior technical partners.
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.
Why Join Us
We believe we all must make a choice every day - individually and collectively - to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.
Total Rewards | Benefits Overview
From day one, we're looking out for your well-being-at work and at home-so you can focus on realizing your ambitions. Learn how GM supports a rewarding career that rewards you personally by visiting Total Rewards resources.
Non-Discrimination and Equal Employment Opportunities (U.S.)
General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of unlawful discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that providing an inclusive workplace creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers.
All employment decisions are made on a non-discriminatory basis without regard to sex, race, color, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, pregnancy or maternity status, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran or protected veteran, or any other similarly protected status in accordance with federal, state and local laws.
We encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications for each role and apply for any positions that match their skills and capabilities. Applicants in the recruitment process may be required, where applicable, to successfully complete a role-related assessment(s) and/or a pre-employment screening prior to beginning employment. To learn more, visit How we Hire.
Accommodations
General Motors offers opportunities to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email us [email protected] or call us at 1-800-865-7580. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.
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