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Staff Software Engineer

General Motors · Austin, TX · posted 49 days ago

In short: Staff Software Engineer at General Motors in Austin, TX, posted 49 days ago.

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Austin, TXlocation

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49 days agoposted

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The job

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Employer	General Motors
Location	Austin, Texas
Field	Technology › Software engineering
Level	Senior Level
Source category	Software Engineering
Posted	2026-09-20 (49 days ago)
Work arrangement	On-site at the location listed
Pay	Not published in the source listing

Job description

Description

The Role

GM is working toward a future defined by Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion. Achieving that goal requires sustained investment in the people, software, and systems that support safer, better, and more sustainable transportation. We are continuing to build our team of passionate software engineers who bring technical depth, independent judgment, genuine enthusiasm for building software, and a high standard for production quality to this work.

Vision and Automation Services is an organization within General Motors that builds innovative software solutions for global manufacturing, with a strong focus on vision-as-a-service capabilities, automation, and AI enablement. Our teams combine modern cloud platforms, plant-floor systems, computer-vision systems for camera-based inspection, data models and data platforms, and sophisticated AI-assisted software engineering across the development lifecycle. We also apply agentic workflows and other emerging technologies to build products that help people work more safely and efficiently.

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer who can take technical ownership of substantial areas of a complex, production-critical platform. This is a challenging role with a high degree of autonomy. You will be expected to onboard quickly and understand software development across the full lifecycle, from requirements and design through testing, deployment, observability, and continuous improvement. At this level, you will also facilitate collaboration across teams, align technical dependencies and delivery plans, and help teams make and execute sound decisions. The role calls for strong technical judgment, disciplined execution, and the ability to create alignment and make progress through ambiguity. You will have a meaningful opportunity to shape technical direction and the engineering practices used to evolve the platform.

You will work across a sophisticated, highly integrated platform spanning Python and FastAPI backend services, React and TypeScript frontend applications, adjacent Java and Spring Boot services, event-driven components, cloud infrastructure, data stores, security controls, and manufacturing-system integrations. The platform is delivered through highly automated CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure, and GitOps tooling. You will also contribute to computer-vision and edge-to-cloud solutions such as in-plant monitoring systems, where reliable software connects cameras, plant infrastructure, machine-learning capabilities, operational services, and user-facing workflows.

This role combines strategic architecture with hands-on implementation. You will help establish engineering direction, mentor other engineers, partner with manufacturing and product leaders, and deliver scalable solutions that operate reliably in real-world plant environments. The role also values practical machine-learning expertise, including the ability to fine-tune models and productionize them for reliable inference in operational environments. The scope provides substantial opportunity for broader architectural ownership, increasing influence across teams, and shaping how the platform evolves.

What You'll Do

Lead the architecture and delivery of scalable software capabilities used by manufacturing teams across multiple plants.
Translate business and operational needs into clear technical requirements, service boundaries, interface contracts, and delivery plans.
Design, build, test, and operate production-grade services across Python and FastAPI, React and TypeScript, adjacent Java and Spring Boot, and modern cloud technologies.
Develop event-driven workflows that ingest, normalize, persist, and distribute operational data and alerts.
Establish reliable integrations with manufacturing, workforce, equipment, analytics, and enterprise systems through well-defined APIs and messaging patterns.
Design data models and platform solutions using databases-including relational, graph-based, and other fit-for-purpose technologies-alongside caching, object storage, and metrics platforms.
Build secure software with strong authentication, authorization, plant-level access controls, secrets management, and defense-in-depth practices.
Improve platform reliability through observability, health monitoring, performance engineering, automated testing, incident learning, and operational readiness.
Lead engineering practices for highly automated continuous integration and delivery, infrastructure automation, containerized deployments, and environment promotion through GitHub, Azure, and GitOps tooling.
Guide the evolution of shared platform capabilities so that multiple manufacturing products can reuse common services, user experiences, and operational patterns.
Contribute to in-plant monitoring and related computer-vision solutions by helping connect plant-edge applications, cameras, machine-learning inference, cloud services, alerts, and operator workflows.
Apply artificial intelligence thoughtfully to software engineering and manufacturing operations, including sophisticated AI-assisted development, intelligent automation, and agentic capabilities that can operate across governed tools and services.
Contribute to machine-learning workflows by fine-tuning models, productionizing them for reliable inference, and helping establish dependable evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle practices.
Evaluate emerging technologies and turn promising ideas into secure, maintainable prototypes and production solutions.
Make sound architectural tradeoffs among delivery speed, maintainability, performance, security, cost, and operational complexity while facilitating alignment across teams.
Provide technical leadership across teams by communicating decisions clearly, aligning stakeholders, promoting common engineering practices, and mentoring engineers.
Participate in technical planning, design reviews, code reviews, troubleshooting, and other related duties as assigned.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field.
8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial experience delivering production systems.
In-depth experience designing and developing distributed applications, microservices, APIs, and event-driven systems.
Strong professional experience with Python and modern backend frameworks such as FastAPI.
Strong professional experience with React, TypeScript, and modern frontend application development.
Familiarity with Java and Spring Boot services in distributed enterprise platforms.
Experience designing data models and working with databases, including relational, graph-based, and other fit-for-purpose technologies such as PostgreSQL.
Experience with modern cloud and container technologies such as Azure, Docker, and Kubernetes (K8s), along with infrastructure automation and comparable DevOps practices.
Experience building secure applications with identity, authentication, authorization, role-based access, secrets, and secure service-to-service communication.
Experience with automated testing, continuous integration and delivery pipelines, GitHub Actions or comparable technologies, source control, and production release practices.
Experience with observability, including structured logging, metrics, tracing, health checks, alerting, and operational dashboards.
Experience designing and supporting integrations with enterprise or industrial systems using APIs, messaging, or event-streaming technologies.
Ability to analyze complex systems, balance competing requirements, and make decisions that support long-term platform health.
Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to software engineers, product leaders, manufacturing partners, and other stakeholders.
Willingness to travel periodically to support collaboration, plant deployments, production readiness, or other business needs.
Ability to work effectively in a highly collaborative, cross-functional environment.

What Can Give You a Competitive Advantage (Preferred Qualifications)

Experience leading architecture and technical strategy for a platform used across multiple products, sites, or business units.
Experience delivering software for manufacturing, industrial automation, automotive, robotics, computer vision, or other operational environments.
Experience with plant-edge computing, industrial cameras, device health, telemetry, or edge-to-cloud architectures.
Experience integrating systems with different ownership models, data contracts, release cycles, and availability requirements.
Experience with Azure services such as Event Hubs, managed databases, object storage, Key Vault, managed identity, or equivalent cloud services.
Experience with Redis or comparable caching and real-time communication technologies.
Experience with infrastructure as code, Helm, GitOps, Argo CD, or comparable deployment automation.
Experience applying AI-assisted software engineering across design, implementation, testing, debugging, documentation, and continuous improvement, including familiarity with large-language-model-enabled development tools, retrieval-augmented generation, intelligent automation, agentic systems, or governed AI integrations.
Experience fine-tuning machine-learning models and productionizing them for reliable inference, including model evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
Familiarity with machine-learning or computer-vision systems and the software interfaces required to operate them reliably, without requiring deep specialization in model development.
Experience evolving shared frontend and backend capabilities across multiple teams.
Experience with data federation, graph-based models, domain ownership, or event-driven data synchronization.
Demonstrated ability to develop, inspire, and motivate engineers through technical leadership and mentorship while fostering collaboration across organizational and functional boundaries.
Ability to provide strategic perspective while remaining willing to work hands-on when needed, take intelligent risks, and champion change with sound judgment.
Evidence of integrity, accountability, initiative, and ownership from concept through production operation.
Strong problem-solving, written communication, verbal communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
Curiosity and a commitment to continuous learning in software engineering, cloud platforms, manufacturing technology, and artificial intelligence.

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GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply for this role if you will need GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future. This includes direct company sponsorship, entry of GM as the immigration employer of record on a government form, and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g., H1-B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc.)

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}.

Relocation benefits are available for candidates who qualify under company policy.

About GM

Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.

Why Join Us

We believe we all must make a choice every day - individually and collectively - to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.

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Non-Discrimination and Equal Employment Opportunities (U.S.)

General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of unlawful discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that providing an inclusive workplace creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers.

All employment decisions are made on a non-discriminatory basis without regard to sex, race, color, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, pregnancy or maternity status, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran or protected veteran, or any other similarly protected status in accordance with federal, state and local laws.

We encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications for each role and apply for any positions that match their skills and capabilities. Applicants in the recruitment process may be required, where applicable, to successfully complete a role-related assessment(s) and/or a pre-employment screening prior to beginning employment. To learn more, visit How we Hire.

Accommodations

General Motors offers opportunities to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email us [email protected] or call us at 1-800-865-7580. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.

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About the role

This is a Senior Level role in the Technology field (Software engineering) at General Motors. Senior roles usually expect substantial experience, ownership of results and often the ability to guide others.

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The city

The job is in Austin, TX. Below is what the official statistics say about living and working there.

How Austin compares. Among the 120 largest places in Texas, Austin is #4 by population, #5 for remote work (#1 = most), #111 for homeownership (#1 = highest), #13 for college degrees (#1 = most). Its county, Travis County, is #5 of 254 counties for average pay ($96,267).

The place in numbers

Austin has 979,539 residents (ACS 2020–2024), about 3.2% of the population of Texas. It covers 326 square miles of land, which works out to roughly 3,001 people per square mile. The median age is 34.7, about the same as the state median (34.7 against 35.6).

Housing

The median gross rent is $1,729 a month (rent plus utilities), 23% above the state median ($1,729 against $1,403). Over a year that is 22.2% of the median household income. US housing guidance treats housing as affordable when it takes 30% of income or less, so the typical household is under that line. The median home value is $555,300, which is 5.9 times the median household income ($93,658); a ratio above 5 usually means buying is out of reach without savings or a second income. 43.5% of households own their home, 31% below the state average (43.5% against 62.6%). A low ownership share points to a rental-heavy market with more apartments and shorter stays.

Work and pay

The Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX metropolitan area has 1,293,690 jobs in the BLS wage survey, and the median pay across all occupations is $56,950 a year, 12% above the national median ($56,950 against $50,980). The biggest occupation groups are office and administrative support (159,340 jobs, median $47,770); management (133,950 jobs, median $129,060); food preparation and serving related (120,570 jobs, median $33,280). The area is most specialised in computer and mathematical (1.9 times) and architecture and engineering (1.5 times), where the share of workers is well above the national share. The best-paying groups with at least 5,000 jobs are management ($129,060) and computer and mathematical ($114,350). In 2026M09 the unemployment rate of Travis County was 3.6%. 75.1% of residents aged 16 and over are in the labour force. The city lies in Travis County; its jobs, pay by industry and GDP are on the county page.

Getting around

Among workers, 56.0% drive alone, 2.0% use public transit, 2.5% walk, 30.7% work from home. 10.2% of workers commute 45 minutes or more, 40% below the state average (10.2% against 16.9%). Remote work is more common than in the state as a whole, which widens the set of employers a resident can work for without moving.

People and education

59.6% of adults aged 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 76% above the state share (59.6% against 33.8%). 18.7% of residents were born outside the United States, 7% above the state share (18.7% against 17.6%). The poverty rate is 12.0%, 13% below the state rate (12.0% against 13.8%).

Climate

The warmest month is Aug, averaging 86°F (30.1°C), and the coolest is Jan at 49°F (9.3°C). About 841 mm (33 inches) of precipitation falls in a year; May is the wettest month (111 mm) and Feb the driest (45 mm). These values come from NASA satellite-based climatology on a grid of about 50 km, so they describe the wider area, not a weather station in the city.

Nearby cities to compare

Closest cities in this guide: Pflugerville (14 miles, rent 12% higher); Cedar Park (15 miles, rent 7% higher); Round Rock (17 miles, similar rent); Leander (20 miles, rent 12% higher). Rent differences are against Austin; use the Compare tab to put any two cities side by side.

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Where to live

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Places within 50 miles (straight line) of Austin, TX that have a guide, with what living there costs. No pay estimate is shown because the title did not match one occupation.

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Place ⇅	Distance from the job city ⇅	Median rent ⇅	Median home value ⇅	Median household income ⇅	Commute 45+ min ⇅	Rent as % of occupation pay ⇅	Open jobs there ⇅
Austin, TX	0 mi	$1,729	$555,300	$93,658	10.2%	n/a	Jobs
Pflugerville, TX	14 mi	$1,932	$402,400	$117,799	12.3%	n/a	—
Cedar Park, TX	15 mi	$1,846	$513,600	$129,545	14.8%	n/a	—
Round Rock, TX	17 mi	$1,763	$418,600	$99,287	13.1%	n/a	—
Leander, TX	20 mi	$1,939	$506,200	$139,048	22.3%	n/a	—
Hutto, TX	21 mi	$2,255	$365,700	$118,834	20.4%	n/a	—
Kyle, TX	22 mi	$1,752	$334,600	$90,323	32.1%	n/a	—
Georgetown, TX	26 mi	$1,795	$429,100	$95,062	20.8%	n/a	—
San Marcos, TX	31 mi	$1,322	$310,400	$51,281	16.2%	n/a	—
Canyon Lake, TX	42 mi	$1,327	$389,300	$97,301	40.2%	n/a	—
New Braunfels, TX	47 mi	$1,654	$339,400	$86,021	19.5%	n/a	—

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Distances

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From ⇅	Straight-line distance (miles) ⇅	Population of that city ⇅
Austin, TX	0 mi	979,539
San Antonio, TX	74 mi	1,479,835
Houston, TX	146 mi	2,328,253
Fort Worth, TX	173 mi	963,194
Dallas, TX	182 mi	1,307,930
Oklahoma City, OK	357 mi	697,125
Denver, CO	768 mi	718,877
Phoenix, AZ	870 mi	1,642,323
Indianapolis, IN	926 mi	885,860
Jacksonville, FL	959 mi	977,670
Chicago, IL	974 mi	2,711,226
Charlotte, NC	1,039 mi	903,844
Columbus, OH	1,067 mi	914,802
San Diego, CA	1,153 mi	1,389,526
Los Angeles, CA	1,233 mi	3,857,263
Philadelphia, PA	1,437 mi	1,579,706
San Jose, CA	1,459 mi	990,138
New York, NY	1,512 mi	8,483,844
San Francisco, CA	1,530 mi	830,235
Seattle, WA	1,769 mi	754,195

Nearby cities with open jobs (within 120 miles)

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City ⇅	Straight-line distance ⇅	Open jobs ⇅
Lockhart, TX	29 mi	22
Cibolo, TX	57 mi	1
Converse, TX	64 mi	1
San Antonio, TX	74 mi	179
Lakehills, TX	85 mi	1

The employer

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Company description (from The Muse): At GM, we pioneer the innovations that move and connect people to what matters. Our vision is a world with zero crashes, zero emissions and zero congestion. Our diverse team of over 165,000 employees brings their collective passion for engineering, technology and design to deliver on this ambitious future. And the bold commitments we’ve made are moving us closer to realizing this vision. We firmly believe that each of us has the power to drive meaningful change through our words, actions, and culture. At General Motors, we foster a culture where all ideas are taken into consideration, and where everyone can contribute to their fullest potential. Our foundation is built on respect, integrity, accountability, and equality.

size: Large Size; industries: Consumer Goods & Services, Engineering, Manufacturing, Technology; locations on The Muse: Detroit, MI.

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