Workplace Classification:
Hybrid : This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to their primary work location three times per week, at minimum, or other frequency dictated by the business.
About Vision and Automation Services:
General Motors’ (GM) Vision and Automation Services (VAAS) is distributed across Austin, TX, Sunnyvale, CA and Warren, MI. We are the group within GM building innovative IT solutions supporting manufacturing, leveraging current and emerging technologies. Our focus includes many different technologies around computer vision, robotics, augmented reality, and AI. Our work supports GM manufacturing goals to build quality products with zero defects.
The Team:
To achieve our vision of a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion, we are building a team of people who are passionate about creating safer, better, and more sustainable solutions. This bold vision won't happen overnight, but just as we transformed how the transportation in the last century, we are committed to transforming how we move today and in the future.
Are you a driven professional with fresh ideas, a passion for immersive technologies, and a desire to challenge the way things are traditionally done? Can you build creative, scalable, content driven solutions that can guide users through complex tasks in multiple areas of the automotive industry? If so, this is your opportunity to work in a team with a truly diverse background that includes AI, Robotics, XR, real-time 3D tools, and where innovation is at the center of everything we do.
If you want a place that challenges you to bring your curiosity, enthusiasm, desire to learn, grow, and succeed every day, to build automotive solutions that are the benchmark for other automotive companies and suppliers, then this is the place for you.
The Role:
The Software Engineer is responsible and accountable for the quality and cohesion of solution architecture components within an assigned domain and their conformance to approved GM IT standards and alignment with the future state enterprise and domain architectural goals. This includes both hands-on development of IT technology solution architectures as well as management of various architectural initiatives.
The role entails working with a team of AI, 3D, and robotics engineers to improve the vehicle manufacturing process. This is an exciting opportunity to use tools that are typically used in the video game industry but are rapidly becoming relevant to the automotive industry. The ideal candidate will have experience with 3D development.
We are seeking an Information Technology professional who:
- Have a steadfast drive for excellence
- Challenge themselves and their peers
- Enjoy working collaboratively in cross-functional teams
- Demonstrate a good work ethic
- Have a strong ability and willingness to learn
- Excel in a variety of job assignments
- Understand fundamental physics and math concepts, and can apply them to real applications
- Desire to deliver innovative solutions to complex problems
What You'll Do (Responsibilities):
- You will be responsible for requirement analysis, design, implementing and testing software solutions to solve some of the most advanced technical challenges facing the industry.
- You should be somebody who enjoys working on complex system software, is very customer-centric, understands the big picture and feels strongly not only about building good software but about making that software achieve its goals.
- You will be required to be available after work hours and weekends to support any critical issues and support application rollouts.
- Review Pull requests, cross-collaborate with the developers for user stories and tasks, estimate the story points and manage their board effectively.
