Hybrid Principal Engineer, Body Control Subsystem Integration – Compliance & Regulations

at General Motors

• Job title: Principal Engineer, Body Control Subsystem Integration – Compliance & Regulations
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $201,600 - $309,900 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Warren, United States

About the role

• Principal Software Engineer at General Motors responsible for Body Controls safety and regulatory compliance. Leading software development in Occupant Protection, Comfort, and Security domains.

Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements

• 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++

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.