# Senior Software Engineer, AV Frameworks

Job Description The Role We’re AV Frameworks within AV Platform Core at General Motors. We build the foundational frameworks that power robotics and autonomous capabilities across distributed compute - with a focus on inter-process communication (IPC), middleware, and developer experience that make complex systems reliable, observable, and fast. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design and deliver the core communication and runtime building blocks used by AV/Robotics applications on vehicles, on benches, and in simulation. You’ll work across C++ systems, Linux, and networking/IPC to achieve low-latency messaging, deterministic scheduling, and production-grade reliability at scale. What you’ll do Own design and implementation of high-performance IPC and middleware primitives (publish/subscribe, shared memory, serialization, discovery, QoS). Drive latency, throughput, and determinism improvements through profiling, tracing, benchmarking, and targeted optimizations. Build developer-facing APIs, tooling, and documentation that improve ergonomics, correctness, and velocity for internal customers. Deliver platform-ready components with observability (metrics, logs, traces), robu

- **Id**: 4221891
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/general-motors-senior-software-engineer-av-frameworks>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Sunnyvale, United States, Seattle, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: yes
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T05:37:11Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6795
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Life insurance, Retirement plans
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: Automotive Manufacturing

## Company

- **Id**: 1705
- **Name**: General Motors
- **Domain**: gm.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/general-motors-europe>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 91
- **Open postings**: 84
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.536
- **Repost share**: 0.036
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 15
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 153200
- **Max**: 234100
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 234100

## Technologies

- **Bazel** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **CMake** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no
- **Tracing** — Optional: no
- **C** — Optional: yes
- **eBPF** — Optional: yes
- **Go** — Optional: yes
- **gRPC** — Optional: yes
- **Protobuf** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes
- **ROS** — Optional: yes
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Optional: yes
- **ZeroMQ** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T05:37:11Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 795 · green card filings: 1; Filings 12m: 795

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 15
- **Reasons**: conf:4, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T09:45:53Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 234100
- **Is top pay**: yes

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