Staff Embedded Software Engineer

Company: Gm

Location: Austin, Texas, United States of America

Type: Full-time

Posted: 2026-08-21

About this role

Job Description

The Role

We are looking for a skilled Staff Embedded Software Engineer with a deep understanding of distributed systems and fleet-scale device management to develop, optimize, and maintain our embedded control and data plane infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software development (C/C++), a passion for open-source technologies, and experience designing and operating data-intensive pipelines together with the configuration systems that manage them across a distributed device fleet

What You'll Do (Responsibilities)

  • Design, implement, and maintain the on-vehicle control plane that retrieves configuration from the cloud and applies it across the vehicle's ECUs.
  • Design, implement, and maintain the on-vehicle data plane that collects, processes, and forwards data from vehicle systems to cloud storage.
  • Optimize our control and data plane for reliable data egress and configuration delivery over intermittent connectivity, rapid convergence to new configuration, and a minimal CPU and memory footprint on the target ECU.
  • Integrate with cloud services such as Azure, AWS S3, and Firestore for configuration delivery, device state reporting, and data egress.
  • Collaborate with *DevOps* and Cloud teams to roll out new on-vehicle software and configuration safely.
  • Instrument our software with the observability needed to monitor the fleet, diagnose issues in production, and resolve them at the source.
  • Contribute to the open-source community by reporting issues, contributing to documentation, and submitting patches.
  • Drive the technical direction of how we manage thousands of vehicles from a single control plane, including configuration distribution, version management, device identity, and remote diagnostics.
  • Mentor junior and senior peers, and support team growth
  • Promote best practices within the software community Be an integral part of a dynamic, growing team, contributing positively to team culture ...

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