Principal Staff Engineer

Work Arrangement:
Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to one of the following locations: Warren, MI; Mountain View, CA; Austin, TX; or Markham, Ontario, Canada three times per week, at minimum.

The Role:

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be responsible for executing the plan for design, development and testing of automotive infotainment application software using C/C++ and Qt Application frameworks. Work cross functionally with design, product, systems, and program teams to ensure all pieces come together and release of quality software products on time.

In this technical leader role, you will help develop and lead strategic action plans to support business goals. Embrace agile software development practices that will enable you to grow your team's capability for the future with a focus on speed, quality and safety. You will be using the agile concepts to empower your team to innovate and grow technology.

What you'll do:
? Guide and approve selection of software architecture choices and strategies, supplier partner selection, and ensure smooth, on-time development of products that meet/exceed customer expectations. Lead by example in conducting regular reviews of product capability, quality, and on-time delivery, both internally and with supplier partners.
? Translates business objectives and market requirements to actionable deliverables by defining and delivering architectural solutions that will implement highly maintainable and reliable quality Infotainment software
? Develop and manage partnerships with key engineering, product planning, marketing, business development, manufacturing, and vehicle development teams and activities
? Foster relationships both within and outside of Infotainment development team to ensure a holistic approach to delivering products is achieved.
? Enable teams to design and develop Infotainment HMI application for Radios, Clusters and Heads-up displays in an agile environment.
? Develop software for new vehicle functions and major enhancements using Qt App development framework.
? Facilitate cross functional collaboration with design, product, safety, systems and other groups within and outside the company to implement vehicle infotainment features.
? Mentor, coach and develop employees.
? Work in Agile environment and engage in defining, planning and analyzing user-stories to meet groups? strategic objectives.
? Understand the existing specifications, software structure, and the changes of the new specifications.
? Follow software development processes where quality comes first and ensure that the designed solutions conform to architectural requirements such as scalability, maintainability, reliability, extensibility, usability and security.
? Experience developing or leading cross-functional teams of technologists across multiple locations.
? Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent.
? Experience leading technology delivery efforts at scale managing multiple technology teams.
? Engage in all regular software development activities such as architecture, feature requirements, design, code, and test case reviews to ensure that the team delivers high quality code on time.
? Establish and monitor budget for responsible activities.
? Execute resource planning for required activities.
? Model and foster GM's Core Values and Winning Behaviors.