Principal Engineer, Autonomy Developer Productivity

General Motors (GM)

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Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Mountain View, CAAustin, TXSunnyvale, CAWarren, MI
Salary
$280,000–$384,600 / yr
Posted
43 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $332k
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General Motors (GM) is a leading American multinational automotive corporation founded in 1908 and headquartered in Detroit, Michigan.

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TL;DR · Principal Engineer, Autonomy Developer Productivity

As a Principal Engineer, Autonomy Developer Productivity, you will join the AV Developer Productivity team to build and maintain tools and services that enhance the development lifecycle for autonomous vehicle engineers. You will contribute code, perform reviews, and create technical designs to improve the performance and reliability of observability systems for distributed cloud environments and on-vehicle sensors. The role involves identifying high ROI investments, managing technical debt, and mentoring engineers while influencing the team’s roadmap through proofs of concept. You will utilize a technical stack including Go, Python, Rust, C/C++, or NodeJS, alongside experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Istio, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, and various observability pipelines. This role solves critical engineering bottlenecks by providing seamless development experiences for teams working on complex autonomous vehicle software and infrastructure.

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What you'll do

  • Develop and maintain observability systems to improve performance and reliability for autonomous vehicle engineering teams.
  • Create technical designs and contribute code to enhance developer tools and infrastructure.
  • Build tools that enable engineers to collect and act on signals from distributed cloud systems and vehicle sensors.
  • Identify high-ROI investments and evaluate new technologies through proofs of concept to shape the technical roadmap.
  • Partner with software engineering teams to identify use cases and guide them in using existing tools effectively.
  • Drive software engineering best practices and create tooling that encourages these standards across the organization.
  • Balance the delivery of immediate business impact with the management of technical debt.
  • Mentor and grow the technical skills of engineers across the team and the broader organization.

What we're looking for

  • Hold a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or possess equivalent work experience.
  • Have 10+ years of experience or a proven record of defining and executing technical strategy across multiple teams and stakeholders.
  • Experience designing and implementing large-scale systems.
  • Considerable experience working with container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes.
  • Proficiency in developing distributed systems using languages like Go, Python, Rust, C/C++, or NodeJS.
  • Considerable experience with Unix/Linux, SSH, and networking fundamentals.
  • Proven ability to drive consensus on multi-functional efforts through influence without authority.
  • Experience mentoring and growing junior engineers across the organization.

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