Job Description About the Team The Autonomous Vehicle Microcontrollers team develops embedded platform software that provides the foundation for AV systems. Our software communicates with sensors, supports vehicle operation, provides observability, manages system health, and enables reliable operation of vehicle and platform functions. About the Role As a Software Engineer on the AV MCU Platform team, you will independently own moderate-scope software features, components, or sub-projects related to MCU01. You will contribute across the development lifecycle‚ from requirements and design through implementation, integration, testing, debugging, documentation, and release support. You will work closely with systems, hardware, safety, cybersecurity, integration, and validation teams to deliver production-quality embedded software. Come build the future of self-driving at GM. What You’ll Do (Responsibilities) Reproduce and diagnose software failures using logs, traces, debugger data, telemetry, test evidence, and controlled experiments. Perform structured root-cause analysis for crashes, memory faults, timing issues, race conditions, communication failures, watchdog resets, and unexpected state transitions as applicable. Design, develop, integrate, and maintain embedded C software for multi-core microcontrollers. Implement moderate-scope features, enhancements, integrations, and defect fixes within the assigned software component or subsystem. Develop across the applicable automotive embedded software stack, including BSP, BSW, middleware, RTOS services, drivers, and application software. Write maintainable, modular, efficient, and testable code consistent with team coding standards. Implement robust handling for initialization, state transitions, communication errors, diagnostics, degraded operation, watchdog events, and fault recovery as applicable. Analyze the impact of software changes on interfaces, timing, memory, CPU utilization, configuration, and dependent components. Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications) Bachelors degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or a related STEM field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered. Ability to diagnose software issues using logs, traces, debuggers, test results, and other technical evidence. 2+ years of experience building and shipping production quality embedded software Background in C Embedded Software development Understanding software development lifecycle practices, source control, code reviews, continuous integration, and issue tracking. Experience working with RTOS (such as QNX, FreeRTOS, OSEK, etc.) Good communication skills, capable of switching between high-level and detailed discussions Preferred Qualifications (Nice-to-Have) Experience with robotics, autonomous vehicles, automotive embedded systems, or ADAS development Experience working with AUTOSAR Experience working in a Safety Critical Embedded Software Environment (ISO 26262, DO-178C, MIL-STD-882E) Experience with JIRA, DOORs NG, Confluence, Github, Lauterbach, Visual Studio Code. Experience developing software that scales to millions of instances and managing it Ability to adapt and operate under ambiguity, going from quick code prototypes to long-term plans on brief time horizons 2+ years of experience building and shipping production quality embedded software Masters degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or a related STEM field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered. GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply for this role if you will need GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future. This includes direct company sponsorship, entry of GM as the immigration employer of record on a government form, and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g., H1-B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc). This role is categorized as onsite. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location on a full-time basis. The selected candidate will be required to travel <25% for this role. This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate. 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. 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