Senior Software Engineer, AV Frameworks

General Motors

Full-time Computer Occupations
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Location
San Francisco, California, United States
Posted
July 02, 2026

Job Description

Job Description

The Role
We’reAV Frameworkswithin AV Platform Core at General Motors. We build the foundational frameworks that power robotics and autonomous capabilities across distributed compute — with a focus oninter-process communication (IPC), middleware, and developer experience that make complex systems reliable, observable, and fast. 

As aSenior Software Engineer, you will design and deliver the core communication and runtime building blocks used by AV/Robotics applications onvehicles, on benches, and in simulation.You’llwork across C++ systems, Linux, and networking/IPC to achieve low-latency messaging, deterministic scheduling, and production-grade reliability at scale. 

Whatyou’lldo

  • Own design and implementation ofhigh-performance IPC and middleware primitives(publish/subscribe, shared memory, serialization, discovery, QoS). 

  • Drivelatency, throughput, and determinismimprovements through profiling...