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Staff SW Engineer - Connectivity Quality

  • Emplacement
    • Austin, Texas
    • Mountain View, California
    • Warren, Michigan
  • Type d'emploi Full time
  • Posté
  • Job Requisition JR-202608076

Description

At General Motors, our product teams are redefining mobility. Through a human-centered design process, we create vehicles and experiences that are designed not just to be seen, but to be felt. We’re turning today’s impossible into tomorrow’s standard —from breakthrough hardware and battery systems to intuitive design, intelligent software, and next-generation safety and entertainment features.

Every day, our products move millions of people as we aim to make driving safer, smarter, and more connected, shaping the future of transportation on a global scale.

The Role:

The Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) team supports the definition, design, and development of continuously improving mobility services. SDV is a new vehicle intelligence platform that will underpin all our future innovations across a wide range of technological advancements, including EVs and expanded automated driving. This means that you can potentially put a fingerprint on the vehicles that drive down the road!

This role is for a highly technical quality leader who understands how connectivity software systems are built, integrated, tested, and released. The right candidate will bring deep expertise in areas such as cellular, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, Ethernet, and related vehicle communication systems, and will help ensure our connectivity software is reliable, scalable, and ready for production.

You will work across development, validation, integration, suppliers, and operations teams to drive quality from architecture through release. This is a staff-level technical leadership role focused on building robust test strategy, improving software health visibility, and raising the quality bar across the connectivity organization.

What You’ll Do (Responsibilities):

  • Define and lead software quality strategy for future Connectivity software products.

  • Provide technical leadership for test, integration, and release quality across connectivity domains

  • Lead the team to develop and drive test strategy for hourly, daily, and weekly software builds

  • Establish processes and metrics to measure software quality, performance, and overall software health

  • Lead technical deep dives to identify risks, root cause issues, and drive corrective actions

  • Create and drive a strong quality front door process for connectivity software

  • Partner with development, supplier, execution, and IT teams to resolve quality issues efficiently

  • Collaborate with software engineering teams on architecture, observability, infrastructure, and reliability needs

  • Support production readiness reviews, deployment planning, and operational quality improvements

  • Use automation, data, and observability to improve test coverage, issue detection, and release confidence

  • Drive continuous improvement in quality processes, tools, and best practices across the organization

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications):

  • Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or other related software subject area

  • 7+ years of experience in automotive connectivity, telematics, or embedded software systems

  • 5+ years in software quality, software engineering, systems integration, or a closely related technical role

  • Strong working knowledge of automotive connectivity and communication software architecture

  • Deep technical experience in key connectivity domains such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS, cellular, Digital Key, Power moding, Connectivity, Diagnostic, cyber security, OTA, Ethernet, or CAN

  • Experience leading quality strategy and test approach for complex, cross-functional software systems

  • Ability to understand complex system behavior, identify failure modes, and drive root cause resolution

  • Experience developing test strategy, quality requirements, validation plans, and release readiness criteria

  • Strong communication skills with the ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams

  • Proven ability to work independently and lead through technical judgment

  • Passing score on a technical coding assessment

What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

  • Master of Science Degree in a related engineering field

  • Experience in GM SW development, quality and release process and Issue tracking systems (JIRA/XRAY)

  • Strong understanding of vehicle data communication systems (i.e. CAN, ETHERNET)

  • Experience with connectivity simulators, lab test environments, and domain-specific test tools

  • Experience building quality insights through telemetry, observability, and automation

  • Deep Understanding of networking and software development in distributed systems

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 190,000 and 240,000. 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.

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