Software Engineer, AV HIL Platform at General Motors in Sunnyvale, California, United States of America
- Company: General Motors
- Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States of America
- Posted: Sep 24, 2026
- Type: Full-time
- Salary: $123,000 - $190,000
- Experience: 2+ years
- Visa sponsorship available
Overview
The HIL Platform and Services 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 qua…
Job description
- The HIL Platform and Services 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.
- As a Software Engineer on the HIL Platform and Services 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.
- This is a highly collaborative team with close collaboration with various teams within the core AV organization including Embodied AI, 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.
Responsibilities
- Develop software to increase the capabilities, fidelity, observability and scale of our HIL Platform and Integration services
- Deliver reliable software through requirements generation, continuous integration, automated testing, issue tracking, and code reviews
- Collaborate with colleagues across multiple teams
- Deliver complex projects through incremental development
Requirements
- 2+ years of experience writing production-quality software
- Strong system fundamentals and coding abilities (Python, C++)
- Understanding of how to design high-performant software components
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Experience developing in a Linux environment
- BS, MS or PhD in CS, or related technical field
- Experience with optimizing and/or evaluating complex software systems on dedicated hardware
- Experience with ROS architectures
- Experience with low latency or real time systems
- Experience in the AV industry
- Experience with SQL
- Large build system such as bazel working experience
Skills
Required
- Python
- C++
- Linux environment
- High-performant software design
- System fundamentals
Preferred
- ROS architectures
- Low latency or real time systems
- AV industry experience
- SQL
- Bazel
Benefits
- 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 New York, Colorado, California, or Washington
- Compensation: The expected base compensation for this role is: $123,000 - $190,000 Actual base compensation within the identified 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.