Senior SW Engineer, Data Recording

What you’ll do 

• Lead the design and implementation of reliable, high-performance real-time data collection, processing, and routing systems for automotive edge devices.

• Define common platform abstractions, libraries, and APIs that bridge development and retail fleet logging use cases.

• Set technical direction for QoS, backpressure, data privacy, fault handling, observability, and performance reproducibility across logging components.

• Build developer-facing APIs, tooling, and documentation that improve correctness, integration velocity, and long-term maintainability for internal customers.

• Partner with OS, drivers, safety, controls, perception, tooling, cloud/backend, and privacy teams to deliver end-to-end platform capabilities.

• Drive production rigor through code review standards, test strategy, integration testing, soak testing, performance gates, rollout/rollback planning, and operational readiness.

• Mentor engineers, lead design reviews, and raise the technical bar for systems engineering within AV Logging and Data Recording.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications) 

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience.

• Significant experience building systems-level software in C and modern C++.

• Deep understanding of concurrency, memory management, performance profiling, low-latency systems, and low-contention design patterns.

• Experience designing IPC, messaging, or distributed data systems, including serialization, flow control, backpressure, QoS, and failure handling.

• Strong ownership of production-quality software, including testing strategy, CI/build systems, observability, debugging, and operational readiness.

• Demonstrated ability to lead technical design across teams and influence engineering direction without relying solely on authority.

What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications) 

• Experience with automotive, robotics, AV, embedded Linux, QNX, or safety-adjacent systems.

• Experience with high-throughput sensor data, telemetry, logging, data recording, or data offload pipelines.

• Familiarity with privacy-preserving data collection, data retention policies, or fleet data governance.

• Experience with Bazel, CMake, CI systems, artifact/versioning strategies, and large-scale monorepo development.

• Track record mentoring engineers and improving engineering practices across a team or platform area.

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 New York, Colorado, California, or Washington.   

• The salary range for this role is $129,400- $198,400. 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. 

• 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.  

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 a