Principal Engineer, Body Control Subsystem Integration – Compliance & Regulations
Job description
Job Description
Role:
The Principal Software Engineer at General Motors should be an experienced leader who cares deeply about software and software quality. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be responsible for broad oversight and ownership of safety and regulatory design compliance for all features in the Body Controls domain across the subsystems of Occupant Protection, Occupant Position, Occupant Cabin Comfort, Lighting & Visibility, and Secure Vehicle Access. This responsibility will extend to designing, documenting, and guiding the implementation of complex, highly scalable, embedded software in C/C++. Your work will guarantee that the continued evolution and innovation of Body Controls Software while sustaining a strong and forward-thinking compliance posture.
At General Motors, we believe in engineering leaders who remain deeply technical and understand the challenges their teams are facing. The ideal candidate will be comfortable switching context from programming in C/C++, designing elegant software architectures, defining how to test, benchmark, and debug complex systems, engaging with third parties (including standards bodies and regulatory teams) and providing mentorship for staff and senior software engineers.
What you’ll do:
- Define and lead software compliance strategy for new technology and highly complex features for Body Controls Platform development with a focus on Occupant Protection, Occupant Position, Occupant Cabin Comfort, Lighting & Visibility, Secure Vehicle Access, and abstraction layers
- Define a compliance & technology roadmap
- Drive architecture standards, patterns, and principles, actively engaging with and leading third party standards initiatives
- Serve as subject matter expert on analyzing, judging, and advising on disposition of technical matters related to safety, regulation and compliance
- Establish a forward looking external posture on emerging trends and standards impacting the Body Controls domains
- Work across orgs to ensure that the joint architecture across the full stack is coherent and can solve relevant problems
- Maintain alignment between senior leadership and engineering teams through effective executive communication
- Maintain high-quality bar in projects from the start and champion quality improvements by implementing better technical practices
- Work with other teams to ensure the system level architecture and strategies for compliance are implemented
- Initiate large projects with complex architecture, breaking it down to the right logical components so others can be utilized effectively
- Improve and deliver reliable software through requirements generation, continuous integration, automated testing, issue tracking, and code reviews
- Provide technical leadership, guidance and mentorship to Senior and Staff engineers as they propose, prototype, evaluate, and iterate solutions, as well as through their career progression
- Lead large initiatives involving many stakeholders by driving impact analysis, and ensuring alignment with the larger architectural roadmap
Your Skills & Abilities:
- Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electronics & Communication, Electrical Engineering, or related degree
- 10+ years of experience in Embedded Software development and launching quality software into production
- Demonstrated successful technical track record leading software development teams in complex system environments
- Experience with safety critical development and testing in regulated environments (examples include FDA, FAA, Automotive, Aerospace)
- Experience with real-time operating systems or middleware
- Proficiency with C/C++
What will give you a competitive edge:
- Experience leading external standards committees
- Experience interfacing with or advising regulators and policy makers
- Experience developing on and for embedded RTOS / Linux / POSIX systems
- Experience applying and mentoring team members on software best practices
- Experience with embedded build systems, CI/CD and test automation
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 actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position, as well as geography of the selected candidate.
• The salary range for this role is (Position 201,600- 309,900 from Pay Transparency Posting Salary Ranges). The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this 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:
• 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, tuition assistance programs, employee assistance program, GM vehicle discounts and more.
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This 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 travel <25% for this role.


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