General Motors
Principal Software Engineer - Vehicle AI
$239K–$366K
Mountain View, California, United States of America +1 · Hybrid · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 24, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, California, United States of America
Remote - Washington - Experience
- 12+ years of professional software development experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads the architecture and technical strategy for GM’s in-vehicle AI assistant across Android client applications, edge-cloud orchestration, and backend services.
What you'll do
- Own end-to-end platform architecture and drive cross-functional technical strategy.
- Design hybrid edge-cloud orchestration and standards for real-time client-server communication.
- Lead evaluation, testing, and telemetry for AI integration and assistant performance; mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 12+ years of professional software development experience designing large-scale distributed systems across client applications and cloud microservices.
- Technical depth in Android architecture (Kotlin/Java) and backend cloud integration, including microservices, REST, gRPC, and streaming APIs.
- Demonstrated cross-functional technical leadership, expertise in client-server interaction and low-latency communication, and ability to define multi-year technical roadmaps.
Nice to have
- Master’s or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Expertise in conversational AI, voice assistant frameworks, agentic LLM orchestration, AAOS, or edge-cloud computing.
Pay
$238,700 - $365,700 USD base salary
Tools
Android Automotive OS (AAOS), Kotlin, Java, microservices, REST, gRPC, streaming APIs
AI focus
Evaluates and integrates AI/ML agent frameworks, large language model orchestrators, and tool execution engines for an in-cabin conversational voice assistant.
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