Senior Data Engineer improving General Motors vehicle data pipelines, monitoring, and observability. Supporting reliable fleet software operations across Oshawa and Markham hybrid offices.
About the role
- Senior software engineer building General Motors’ vehicle data platform across ECUs and cloud. Developing control, data, logging, and SDK software for connected vehicles.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain on-vehicle control-plane components that retrieve cloud configuration and apply it across vehicle ECUs
- Design, implement, and maintain on-vehicle data-plane components that collect, process, and forward vehicle data to cloud storage, including streaming and file-based transfer
- Build and maintain logging software across the vehicle software stack
- Develop SDK libraries, apps, and services, including API documentation and examples
- Deliver software on Android, Linux, and QNX across General Motors compute modules
- Optimize data egress and configuration delivery over intermittent connectivity while reducing CPU and memory footprint
- Integrate with Azure, AWS S3, and Firestore for configuration delivery, device state reporting, and data egress
- Instrument software for fleet monitoring, production diagnosis, and source-level issue resolution
- Write unit and integration tests, review code, and meet software release criteria
- Support application teams with SDK integration and respond to field issues
- Collaborate with DevOps, Cloud, cybersecurity, and privacy teams on software and configuration rollouts
- Contribute to open-source projects through issue reports, documentation, and patches
- Mentor junior engineers and promote team best practices
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 4+ years of hands-on development experience in C or C++, or in Java/Kotlin for Android
- Experience developing software for Linux, Android, and/or QNX platforms
- Experience delivering software on production ECUs or other devices with limited CPU, memory, storage, and bandwidth
- Understanding of distributed systems, configuration management, and data pipelines
- Experience with control plane or device management software, data collection and transfer pipelines, logging or telemetry software, or SDKs and libraries used by other teams
- Experience with API design, versioning, and adoption support for SDKs or libraries
- Knowledge of automotive cybersecurity controls and data protection processes
- Understanding of network communication and security protocols, including mTLS and certificate-based device identity
- Experience writing unit and integration tests and working with CI/CD pipelines
- Experience troubleshooting issues in production environments
- Communication skills and ability to work in a team
- Has delivered software in a production environment and supported it once in the field
- GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship; candidates must not require GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future
- Preferred: familiarity with UDS, CAN, SOME/IP, XCP, Autosar, OpenTelemetry, protobuf, gRPC, Fluent Bit, AWS/GCP/Azure device management services, Firestore, driver or HMI-initiated capture flows, and automotive domain concepts
Benefits
- Paid time off including vacation days, holidays, and supplemental benefits for pregnancy, parental and adoption leave
- Healthcare, dental, and vision benefits
- Life insurance plans to cover you and your family
- Company and matching contributions to a Defined Contribution Pension plan
- GM Vehicle Purchase Plan for you and your family
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