{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"4e4490e7a66d841df2dfdb28","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/4e4490e7a66d841df2dfdb28","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/4e4490e7a66d841df2dfdb28","title":"Staff Software Engineer","description":"Open — General Motors of Canada has a posting for this job. Posted 8 Sep 2026.\r\nThis posting\r\nOpens generalmotors.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com. Talentify has not checked who owns that address. You apply there — Talentify never asks for an account or a CV.\r\nGet jobs like this by emailTalentify emails you Staff Software Engineer jobs in Sunnyvale, California.\r\nJob alerts\r\nGet jobs like this by emailTalentify emails you Staff Software Engineer jobs in Sunnyvale, California.\r\nEmail address Leave this empty Job alerts by email only. We send a link to confirm first, and nothing else arrives until you click it. Every email has a one-click unsubscribe. Privacy policy .About this jobJob Description\r\nThe AV HIL Software Platforms team in the GM Autonomous Vehicle (AV) Organization is responsible to develop and scale high-fidelity and reliable Hardware-in-Loop validation platforms to test AV software prior to deployment, to ensure enterprise usability, end-user functionality, and provide high quality, use case driven signals, such as AV Performance Validation and AV System Reliability.\r\nAs a Staff Software Engineer on the AV HIL Software Platforms Team, you get to be at the intersection of AV software and AI models, and the hardware systems that are responsible for vehicle autonomy! You will have an opportunity to work on what it takes to run, deploy, and test on the next generation of GM AVs.\r\nThis is a highly collaborative team with close collaboration with various teams within the core AV organization including AV Infrastructure, Embodied AI, AV/AI Platform, Model Deployment, Middleware, OS, Sensor Applications, and Vehicle Integration. This role blends expertise in Software development, software optimization, managing and deploying HIL Services as a PaaS, and hardware-aware engineering.\r\nWhat you’ll be doing (Responsibilities)\r\nDefine and drive the long-term technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for AV HIL software platforms and integration services across multiple products, programs, and development organizations.\r\nLead the design and evolution of highly scalable, reliable, observable, and hardware-aware HIL capabilities that support AV software validation from development through deployment.\r\nEstablish architectural direction and technical standards for platform services, APIs, service reliability, test automation, performance, and operational excellence.\r\nOwn the most complex, ambiguous, and business-critical technical problems spanning AV software, AI models, vehicle hardware, infrastructure, middleware, operating systems, and deployment pipelines.\r\nTranslate organizational and customer needs into clear technical strategies, measurable outcomes, platform requirements, and incremental delivery plans.\r\nInfluence technical decisions across the AV organization and build alignment among senior technical leaders, product stakeholders, and partner teams.\r\nDeliver reliable software and platforms through strong engineering practices, including requirements generation, design reviews, continuous integration, automated testing, observability, issue management, release readiness, and operational support.\r\nIdentify opportunities to improve platform scalability, utilization, fidelity, developer productivity, and cost efficiency; define success metrics and drive sustained improvements.\r\nServe as a hands-on technical leader who contributes to critical software designs and implementations while raising the engineering quality of the broader organization.\r\nMentor and develop engineers across experience levels, strengthen technical communities of practice, and help shape hiring and talent-development strategies.\r\nRepresent AV HIL Software Platforms in cross-functional architecture reviews and technical planning forums, communicating complex trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.\r\nYour Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)\r\n10+ years of experience designing, developing, and delivering production-quality software systems, including significant experience leading large or highly complex technical initiatives.\r\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field; Master’s or PhD preferred.\r\nExpert software engineering and systems fundamentals, with strong coding ability in Python, C++, or comparable languages.\r\nDemonstrated ability to define and execute technical strategy for complex, distributed, hardware-software systems with broad organizational impact.\r\nDeep experience designing for scalability, performance, reliability, observability, maintainability, and operational excellence.\r\nExperience developing and operating software in a Linux environment and working effectively across the full software development lifecycle.\r\nStrong understanding of platform and service architecture, APIs, automation, CI/CD, test infrastructure, and production operations.\r\nProven ability to lead through influence, resolve cross-team dependencies, build alignment, and make sound decisions in ambiguous environments.\r\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate architecture, risks, and trade-offs to senior leadership.\r\nWhat Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)\r\nExperience defining and scaling hardware-in-the-loop, software-in-the-loop, simulation, validation, or other large-scale test and integration platforms.\r\nExperience optimizing and evaluating complex software systems on dedicated hardware, including performance profiling, resource management, latency analysis, and capacity planning.\r\nExperience with ROS or similar robotics architectures and distributed autonomy software stacks.\r\nExperience with low-latency, real-time, safety-critical, or highly deterministic systems.\r\nExperience in the autonomous vehicle, automotive, robotics, embedded systems, or adjacent industries.\r\nExperience delivering platform-as-a-service capabilities used by multiple engineering teams or product organizations.\r\nExperience with large build and dependency management systems such as Bazel.\r\nExperience with SQL and data systems used for test analytics, platform observability, or validation insights.\r\nExperience establishing engineering standards, platform governance, technical roadmaps, or architecture review processes.\r\nDemonstrated success mentoring senior engineers and influencing technical direction beyond a single team.\r\nCompensation: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\r\nCompensation:The expected base compensation for this role is $189,300 -$290,000, Actual base compensation within the identified range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.\r\nBonus Potential:An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.\r\nBenefits: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.\r\n#GM-AV-1\r\nThis role is categorized as hybrid. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location at least 3 times a week {or other frequency dictated by their manager}. The selected candidate will be required to travelAbout GM\r\nOur 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.\r\nWhy Join Us\r\nWe believe we all must make a choice every day – individually and collectively – to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.\r\nBenefits Overview\r\nFrom day one, we're looking out for your well-being–at work and at home–so you can focus on realizing your ambitions. Learn how GM supports a rewarding career that rewards you personally by visitingTotal Rewards resources .\r\nNon-Discrimination and Equal Employment Opportunities (U.S.)\r\nGeneral Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of unlawful discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that providing an inclusive workplace creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers.\r\nAll employment decisions are made on a non-discriminatory basis without regard to sex, race, color, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, pregnancy or maternity status, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran or protected veteran, or any other similarly protected status in accordance with federal, state and local laws.\r\nWe encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications for each role and apply for any positions that match their skills and capabilities. Applicants in the recruitment process may be required, where applicable, to successfully complete a role-related assessment(s) and/or a pre-employment screening prior to beginning employment. 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Posted 8 Sep 2026.\r\nThis posting\r\nOpens generalmotors.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com. Talentify has not checked who owns that address. You apply there — Talentify never asks for an account or a CV.\r\nGet jobs like this by emailTalentify emails you Staff Software Engineer jobs in Sunnyvale, California.\r\nJob alerts\r\nGet jobs like this by emailTalentify emails you Staff Software Engineer jobs in Sunnyvale, California.\r\nEmail address Leave this empty Job alerts by email only. We send a link to confirm first, and nothing else arrives until you click it. Every email has a one-click unsubscribe. Privacy policy .About this jobJob Description\r\nThe AV HIL Software Platforms team in the GM Autonomous Vehicle (AV) Organization is responsible to develop and scale high-fidelity and reliable Hardware-in-Loop validation platforms to test AV software prior to deployment, to ensure enterprise usability, end-user functionality, and provide high quality, use case driven signals, such as AV Performance Validation and AV System Reliability.\r\nAs a Staff Software Engineer on the AV HIL Software Platforms Team, you get to be at the intersection of AV software and AI models, and the hardware systems that are responsible for vehicle autonomy! You will have an opportunity to work on what it takes to run, deploy, and test on the next generation of GM AVs.\r\nThis is a highly collaborative team with close collaboration with various teams within the core AV organization including AV Infrastructure, Embodied AI, AV/AI Platform, Model Deployment, Middleware, OS, Sensor Applications, and Vehicle Integration. This role blends expertise in Software development, software optimization, managing and deploying HIL Services as a PaaS, and hardware-aware engineering.\r\nWhat you’ll be doing (Responsibilities)\r\nDefine and drive the long-term technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for AV HIL software platforms and integration services across multiple products, programs, and development organizations.\r\nLead the design and evolution of highly scalable, reliable, observable, and hardware-aware HIL capabilities that support AV software validation from development through deployment.\r\nEstablish architectural direction and technical standards for platform services, APIs, service reliability, test automation, performance, and operational excellence.\r\nOwn the most complex, ambiguous, and business-critical technical problems spanning AV software, AI models, vehicle hardware, infrastructure, middleware, operating systems, and deployment pipelines.\r\nTranslate organizational and customer needs into clear technical strategies, measurable outcomes, platform requirements, and incremental delivery plans.\r\nInfluence technical decisions across the AV organization and build alignment among senior technical leaders, product stakeholders, and partner teams.\r\nDeliver reliable software and platforms through strong engineering practices, including requirements generation, design reviews, continuous integration, automated testing, observability, issue management, release readiness, and operational support.\r\nIdentify opportunities to improve platform scalability, utilization, fidelity, developer productivity, and cost efficiency; define success metrics and drive sustained improvements.\r\nServe as a hands-on technical leader who contributes to critical software designs and implementations while raising the engineering quality of the broader organization.\r\nMentor and develop engineers across experience levels, strengthen technical communities of practice, and help shape hiring and talent-development strategies.\r\nRepresent AV HIL Software Platforms in cross-functional architecture reviews and technical planning forums, communicating complex trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.\r\nYour Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)\r\n10+ years of experience designing, developing, and delivering production-quality software systems, including significant experience leading large or highly complex technical initiatives.\r\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field; Master’s or PhD preferred.\r\nExpert software engineering and systems fundamentals, with strong coding ability in Python, C++, or comparable languages.\r\nDemonstrated ability to define and execute technical strategy for complex, distributed, hardware-software systems with broad organizational impact.\r\nDeep experience designing for scalability, performance, reliability, observability, maintainability, and operational excellence.\r\nExperience developing and operating software in a Linux environment and working effectively across the full software development lifecycle.\r\nStrong understanding of platform and service architecture, APIs, automation, CI/CD, test infrastructure, and production operations.\r\nProven ability to lead through influence, resolve cross-team dependencies, build alignment, and make sound decisions in ambiguous environments.\r\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate architecture, risks, and trade-offs to senior leadership.\r\nWhat Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)\r\nExperience defining and scaling hardware-in-the-loop, software-in-the-loop, simulation, validation, or other large-scale test and integration platforms.\r\nExperience optimizing and evaluating complex software systems on dedicated hardware, including performance profiling, resource management, latency analysis, and capacity planning.\r\nExperience with ROS or similar robotics architectures and distributed autonomy software stacks.\r\nExperience with low-latency, real-time, safety-critical, or highly deterministic systems.\r\nExperience in the autonomous vehicle, automotive, robotics, embedded systems, or adjacent industries.\r\nExperience delivering platform-as-a-service capabilities used by multiple engineering teams or product organizations.\r\nExperience with large build and dependency management systems such as Bazel.\r\nExperience with SQL and data systems used for test analytics, platform observability, or validation insights.\r\nExperience establishing engineering standards, platform governance, technical roadmaps, or architecture review processes.\r\nDemonstrated success mentoring senior engineers and influencing technical direction beyond a single team.\r\nCompensation: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\r\nCompensation:The expected base compensation for this role is $189,300 -$290,000, Actual base compensation within the identified range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.\r\nBonus Potential:An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.\r\nBenefits: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.\r\n#GM-AV-1\r\nThis role is categorized as hybrid. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location at least 3 times a week {or other frequency dictated by their manager}. The selected candidate will be required to travelAbout GM\r\nOur 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.\r\nWhy Join Us\r\nWe believe we all must make a choice every day – individually and collectively – to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.\r\nBenefits Overview\r\nFrom day one, we're looking out for your well-being–at work and at home–so you can focus on realizing your ambitions. Learn how GM supports a rewarding career that rewards you personally by visitingTotal Rewards resources .\r\nNon-Discrimination and Equal Employment Opportunities (U.S.)\r\nGeneral Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of unlawful discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that providing an inclusive workplace creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers.\r\nAll employment decisions are made on a non-discriminatory basis without regard to sex, race, color, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, pregnancy or maternity status, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran or protected veteran, or any other similarly protected status in accordance with federal, state and local laws.\r\nWe encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications for each role and apply for any positions that match their skills and capabilities. Applicants in the recruitment process may be required, where applicable, to successfully complete a role-related assessment(s) and/or a pre-employment screening prior to beginning employment. To learn more, visitHow we Hire .\r\nAccommodations\r\nGeneral Motors offers opportunities to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment,emailus or call us at 1-800-865-7580. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.\r\nGeneral Motors of Canada's other jobs that have a page here. Each page says open or closed for itself.\r\nOpens generalmotors.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com, after a short hand-off page here.\r\nOne page per job at this company, in this place. Open or closed, it says which.\r\nOpen: the posting you see is the one you apply to, on the employer's site. No account here.\r\nClosed: the page stays, keeps this job's history, and turns back to Open when the employer posts it again.\r\nState comes from Talentify's job index. 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