Principal Staff Engineer

$225,000 - $344,800/Yr

General Motors - Austin, TX

Full-time - Senior

Hybrid - Austin, TX

Transportation Equipment Manufacturing

About the position

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be responsible for executing the plan for design, development and testing of automotive infotainment application software using C/C++ and Qt Application frameworks. Work cross functionally with design, product, systems, and program teams to ensure all pieces come together and release of quality software products on time. In this technical leader role, you will help develop and lead strategic action plans to support business goals. Embrace agile software development practices that will enable you to grow your team's capability for the future with a focus on speed, quality and safety. You will be using the agile concepts to empower your team to innovate and grow technology.

Responsibilities

• Guide and approve selection of software architecture choices and strategies, supplier partner selection, and ensure smooth, on-time development of products that meet/exceed customer expectations.
• Lead by example in conducting regular reviews of product capability, quality, and on-time delivery, both internally and with supplier partners.
• Translate business objectives and market requirements to actionable deliverables by defining and delivering architectural solutions that will implement highly maintainable and reliable quality Infotainment software.
• Develop and manage partnerships with key engineering, product planning, marketing, business development, manufacturing, and vehicle development teams and activities.
• Foster relationships both within and outside of Infotainment development team to ensure a holistic approach to delivering products is achieved.
• Enable teams to design and develop Infotainment HMI application for Radios, Clusters and Heads-up displays in an agile environment.
• Develop software for new vehicle functions and major enhancements using Qt App development framework.
• Facilitate cross functional collaboration with design, product, safety, systems and other groups within and outside the company to implement vehicle infotainment features.
• Mentor, coach and develop employees.
• Work in Agile environment and engage in defining, planning and analyzing user-stories to meet groups' strategic objectives.
• Understand the existing specifications, software structure, and the changes of the new specifications.
• Follow software development processes where quality comes first and ensure that the designed solutions conform to architectural requirements such as scalability, maintainability, reliability, extensibility, usability and security.
• Experience developing or leading cross-functional teams of technologists across multiple locations.
• Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent.
• Experience leading technology delivery efforts at scale managing multiple technology teams.
• Engage in all regular software development activities such as architecture, feature requirements, design, code, and test case reviews to ensure that the team delivers high quality code on time.
• Establish and monitor budget for responsible activities.
• Execute resource planning for required activities.
• Model and foster GM's Core Values and Winning Behaviors.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electronics, Software, Computer Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent fields.
• 15+ years of experience leading engineering teams that develop embedded software using C/C++, and RTOS.
• 15+ years of experience leading and developing Infotainment HMI Applications or equivalent.
• Experience leading a global teams.
• Experience in working in Product Driven Organization model.
• Large Agile program delivery including technology, API development and integrations, and cloud-based applications.
• Strong focus on Customer Experience.
• Strong troubleshooting skills to triage issues across a complex ecosystem with multiple technologies and service providers in times of critical service interruption.
• Creative approach to problem-solving with the ability to focus on details while maintaining the 'big picture' view.
• Ability to quickly learn and understand complex environments and team dynamics.
• Proven ability to build effective relationships with technology teams, business partners, and external suppliers to drive technology transformation.
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills.
• Collaborative team player who thrives in a fast-paced environment.
• Value and leverage diversity and has a passion for talent development.
• Demonstrated expertise managing teams that deploy modern design patterns and scalable, reusable code in Automotive environments.
• 3+ years of engineering experience with Qt application development.
• Demonstrated results in successful project execution.
• Excellent multi-functional communication and leadership skills - able to get multiple teams moving in the same direction.
• Demonstrated ability to deal with ambiguity while driving timely decision making.

Nice-to-haves

• Leadership experience developing and testing automotive infotainment applications for radios and instrument panel clusters.
• Experience using Qt application development framework, including Design Studio, Creator and Squish testing tool.
• Ability to influence leaders and team members in a diplomatic way.
• Ability to provide a clear point of view and challenge respectfully when necessary.
• Possess a high tolerance for ambiguity and an ever-changing environment.
• Experience working with Automotive Embedded Systems and deploying applications to embedded target systems.
• Leadership experience with ASIL A-D safety compliance.
• Ability to manage and lead multiple teams with autonomy and accountability for results.
• Leadership of teams of engineers responsible for developing or testing embedded control systems or related hardware in an agile environment.
• Demonstrated ability to achieve results through effective teamwork, lead numerous projects with different focal areas to successful completion, and manage and measure work through metrics, data, and results.
• Experience managing a global team that is geographically dispersed.
• Working knowledge of embedded software development tool set - (e.g. IDEs, Jira, Git ecosystem etc.).
• High level of understanding of GM Vehicle Development Process a plus.

Benefits

• Paid time off including vacation days, holidays, and parental leave for mothers, fathers and adoptive parents.
• Healthcare (including a triple tax advantaged health savings account and wellness incentive), dental, vision and life insurance plans to cover you and your family.
• Company and matching contributions to 401K savings plan to help you save for retirement.
• Global recognition program for peers and leaders to recognize and be recognized for results and behaviors that reflect our company values.
• Tuition assistance and student loan refinancing.
• Discount on GM vehicles for you, your family and friends.