Staff / Principal Software Engineer, In-Vehicle AI Experiences
$189k - $290k • Mountain View, California, United States of America • Full-time
Posted 9d ago
About the job
GM’s Vehicle AI Experiences team is building the next generation of intelligent experiences for GM vehicles, focusing on defining and owning what the driver can do and how it feels. We are seeking hands-on Staff and Principal Software Engineers to transform ambiguous customer problems into high-quality, production-ready experiences. This role primarily involves working with Kotlin and Android Automotive, owning features across the in-vehicle assistant stack, including conversation design, natural language understanding, LLM behavior, vehicle integration, connected services, and UI. The focus is on product engineering, emphasizing broad engineering judgment, rapid learning, and a track record of shipping complete products. This is a small, fast-moving team where you will have substantial autonomy, stay close to the code, help shape product direction, and improve organizational software delivery processes.
Responsibilities
- Define and build driver-facing capabilities from concept through production.
- Own features end-to-end, including driver requests, conversational behavior, on-device fulfillment, vehicle integration, UI, validation, and iteration.
- Write production Kotlin and contribute to adjacent technologies like Python-based agent definitions, NLU, LLM orchestration, APIs, and connected services.
- Rapidly prototype new experiences, evaluate them in realistic vehicle environments, and develop successful ideas into reliable products.
- Partner with Product, UX, conversation design, vehicle software, systems, platform, safety, privacy, and validation teams.
- Make pragmatic tradeoffs considering customer value, speed, reliability, latency, offline behavior, resource constraints, maintainability, and driver distraction.
- Diagnose complex issues across application, assistant, vehicle, and cloud boundaries.
- Utilize AI-assisted development workflows to accelerate design, implementation, testing, debugging, and codebase understanding while maintaining quality.
- Establish reusable engineering patterns and lightweight workflows to improve team delivery speed.
- Mentor engineers through implementation, design reviews, code reviews, and direct technical collaboration.
- Help shape the roadmap for in-vehicle AI experiences and identify opportunities enabled by emerging technology.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Staff: Minimum 8+ years of experience building and shipping production software.
- Principal: Minimum 10+ years of experience building and shipping production software.
- Strong hands-on software development skills in Kotlin, Java, C++, Python, or a comparable language, with the ability and interest to work primarily in Kotlin and Android.
- A record of independently delivering complex, user-facing features across multiple components or systems.
- Ability to translate ambiguous customer or business goals into concrete designs, incremental plans, and working software.
- Strong system-design, debugging, testing, and operational-quality judgment.
- Experience leading technical work across organizational or functional boundaries.
- Clear communication with engineers, designers, product partners, and technical leadership.
- Demonstrated ability to learn unfamiliar technologies quickly and apply them pragmatically.
- Experience using modern AI-assisted software-development workflows effectively and responsibly.