Senior Software Engineer - Protocol Operations & Trust

General Motors, GM Automation - Sunnyvale - GM Automation - Sunnyvale +1

The role

Job Description

We are looking for a hands-on Software Engineer to turn complex simulation-testing challenges into production-ready software. Working closely with operations and engineering teams, you will build across backend services, data pipelines, production infrastructure, and evaluation feedback loops to move our testing from manual to automated. That means automating the workflows people run by hand today, replacing hand-collected metrics with a pipeline that collects, analyzes, and acts on them, and connecting each team's standalone tools into a single streaming system that makes test creation and maintenance scale.

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Senior Software Engineer - Protocol Operations & Trust

General Motors, GM Automation - Sunnyvale - GM Automation - Sunnyvale +1

Posted pay

$153K–$234K

a year

Compared with similar jobs

This base pay is below the median for senior software engineering jobs in the Bay Area.

Median: $213K a year
Other jobs in the group: 1,608

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Location: GM Automation - Sunnyvale - GM Automation - Sunnyvale +1
Work type: Hybrid
Level: Senior
Experience: 5+ years
Skills in the job text: Python
SQL
Posted: Sep 29, 2026
Last check: 1 h ago
Job type: Software engineering

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What you need

BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
5+ years of experience designing, building, and operating production software, backend services, data platforms, or infrastructure systems.
Strong Python development skills, including production-quality coding, unit testing, code review, debugging, and reliability practices.
Experience building scalable backend systems, APIs, microservices, workflow orchestration, or internal engineering platforms.
Experience with cloud-based production systems, including deployment, observability, performance, and operational reliability.
Experience designing or operating data pipelines and data-processing systems using SQL, NoSQL and other tools for large-scale operational, telemetry, or time-series data.
Experience building automated tests, validation, quality checks, CI/CD, or release workflows.
Ability to lead high-level technical design doc and drive execution across multiple teams.
Strong communication skills and the ability to turn ambiguous technical problems into practical, maintainable solutions.
Demonstrated adaptability, ownership, and ability to operate effectively in evolving technical environments.

What Will Give You a Competitive Edge

Experience with autonomous vehicles, robotics, simulation, evaluation systems, or other complex software platforms.
Experience building automated test-generation, test-execution, or workflow-orchestration systems.
Experience with defining human-in-the-loop/automation quality processes or release-management systems where reproducibility and traceability are critical.
Experience developing data-processing, query, analysis, anomaly detection, or issue-triage systems that help identify and prioritize system problems.
Experience with observability, time-series analysis, performance monitoring, dashboards, or operational analytics.
Experience working on safety-critical, mission-critical, or highly reliable products.
Familiarity with simulation validation, test-quality metrics, human-in-the-loop evaluation, or feedback-driven quality improvement.
Experience with cloud-native deployment, infrastructure, code, containerization, or distributed systems.
Demonstrated ability to adapt quickly in evolving technical environments and take ownership of ambiguous problem spaces.

Location

This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Sunnyvale OR Bellevue three times per week, at minimum.

Senior Software Engineer - Protocol Operations & Trust

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Senior Software Engineer - Protocol Operations & Trust

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