Staff Software Engineer
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Job Location:
Sunnyvale, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Job Description
About the role:
GMs simulation team is looking for an experienced Staff Software Engineer to be a key technical leader in our mission to deliver autonomous driving technologies safely.This is a high-impact role where your work directly enables the validation of our most complex AI-driven systems.
Responsibilities
Technical Vision: Define thearchitectural roadmap for our Simulation Scenario Definition platform and/or its programmatic Python SDK.
Scalable Tooling: Lead the design and implementation of our next-generation graphical editing tools used by hundreds of engineers to precisely define complex traffic environment and sensor scenarios.
Performance & Infrastructure: Drive the evolution of our Python infrastructure focusing on core algorithms for scenario serialization validation and integration with our large-scale cloudcomputecluster.
Mentorship: Act as a hands-on mentor setting the engineering excellence standard for API design code quality and testing practices across the team.
Requires Qualifications
5 yearsof professional experience in software development witha significant portionfocused onlarge-scale platforms tooling or SDK development.
Proven ability tolead technical architectureand drive complex multi-quarter projects from concept to production.
Strong experience withfront-end engineeringfor sophisticated graphical applications (e.g. using modern frameworks like React Vue or a lower-level library like WebGL/).
Expert-levelproficiencyinPython including deep knowledge of best practices performance optimization and building robust APIs/SDKs for external consumers.
Solid foundation in3D graphics computational geometry and/or real-time simulation concepts.
A track recordofmentoring and coachingmid-level and senior engineers raising the technical bar and driving code quality standards within a team.
Desired Skills (Bonus Points)
Experience withCfor performance-critical components or integration with simulation engines.
Direct experience developing or extending aDomain-Specific Language (DSL)or high-level scripting language.
Background ingame engines(e.g. Unity Unreal) or other professional simulation software.
Experience indata visualizationtechniques for large complex datasets.
Familiarity with the architecture ofAutonomous Vehicle (AV) technology(e.g.perception planning controls) or other complex robotics/safety-critical systems.
Company Vehicle: Upon successful completion of a motor vehicle report review you will be eligible to participate in a company vehicle evaluation program through which you will be assigned a General Motors vehicle to drive and evaluate. Note: program participants are required to purchase/lease a qualifying GM vehicle every four years unless one of a limited number of exceptions applies.
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