# Senior Software Engineer (Manipulation)

Job Description General Motors is reimagining automation at economy scale to make manufacturing more competitive in the USA. You are a Senior Software Engineer who has deep experience in building manipulation planning and control libraries. The work covers collision-free motion generation, trajectory optimization, and the execution layer that turns a planned motion into repeatable movement on real arms. The target applications are C++, Python, and ROS 2 on FANUC arms and mobile manipulators, under cycle time and reliability requirements. You have the taste to see important problems, the talent to build great solutions and the grit to get it done. This role sits in the core robotics team and works alongside controls and perception engineers. The Opportunity Build and own manipulation planning capability: collision-free planning, trajectory optimization, and time parameterization. Implement and tune planners for the target applications, with cycle time as a first-class requirement. Build the collision environment representation from perception output and static scene models. Implement Cartesian and constrained motion planning for approach, grasp, and place phases. Handle the mobi

- **Id**: 4089620
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/general-motors-senior-software-engineer-manipulation>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Mountain View, United States, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: yes
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T19:51:52Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T19:51:52Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6881
- **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**: 81
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.531
- **Repost share**: 0.037
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 13
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 129400
- **Max**: 234100
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 234100

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Drake** — Optional: no
- **Inverse Kinematics** — Optional: no
- **Motion Planning** — Optional: no
- **MoveIt** — Optional: no
- **OMPL** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **ROS** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T19:51:52Z

## 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**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 15
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T22:48:35Z

## Pay

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

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