About the Role
The Manufacturing Data Engineering organization designs, builds, and maintains scalable data systems for manufacturing, focusing on key domains like process, materials, sustainability, labor relations, safety, and facility data. The Device Core Engineering team is responsible for the plant-floor device data pipeline, ensuring high-quality manufacturing device data is reliably available in the cloud. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead integration with robotic devices and capture production data from plants globally.
Responsibilities
- Own full lifecycle application development using standard frameworks, coding standards, and design patterns for interfacing with robots and other plant-floor devices
- Develop high-quality software applications using sound, repeatable, industry-standard methodologies
- Perform performance tuning, profiling, and usability assessment/improvement
- Identify and remediate software issues related to code quality, security, patterns/frameworks, and usability
- Debug, maintain, and enhance live software systems used in manufacturing plant-floor applications
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners across the organization (manufacturing engineering, controls, OT/IT, and data teams)
- Mentor junior software developers and review code to uphold team standards and best practices
- Participate in an on-call rotation to support critical operations
- Support urgent production issues outside standard business hours when needed
Requirements
- Minimum 10 years of professional software development experience
- Minimum 3 years of experience developing applications for robot interactions
- Solid understanding of software development best practices, including code reviews, CI/CD, testing, and documentation
- Experience working in an agile/scrum environment
- ROS application design and development experience
- Strong knowledge and understanding of multiple programming languages and code reuse strategies
- Proven track record of maintaining and debugging live production software systems
- Previous experience in manufacturing and robotics
- Experience with cloud-based distributed systems
- Experience supporting mission-critical or real-time applications where uptime and performance are essential
- Do not apply for this role if you will need GM immigration sponsorship (e.g., h-1b, tn, stem opt, etc.) Now or in the future.
Skills
- C++
- Java
- Microsoft Azure
- Azure resources
Location
- Global
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Master's degree in computer science or a related field
Benefits
- GM supports a rewarding career that rewards you personally
About the Company
- 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.
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of unlawful discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging.
- 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.
- General Motors offers opportunities to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities.
