Senior Developer Advocate Jobs in Michigan

Job Description

Global Manufacturing Electrical & SDV is looking for innovators who thrive in tough challenges and are passionate about tackling meaningful work that will shape the future of the automotive industry. This isn’t a role for those looking for an easy path—it’s for those who embrace change, push through obstacles, and take ownership of complex problems.

While there will be long days and moments that test your resilience, you’ll find purpose in your work, flexibility to prioritize your family, and the support of a people-first culture. If you’re ready to grow, thrive, and make a real impact, we’d love to hear from you.

WHY: The purpose of this role is to develop flexible and portable code to be used by multiple organizations to update electric control units in and outside of the vehicle. It will, also, be used to call product functions to verify internal circuits of the vehicle.

WHAT: As an SDV System Integration Software Developer, you will be developing and testing software to be used between vehicle interfaces and software embedded in the vehicle for flash and test.

HOW: Supporting the plants, product engineering, IT, and our own team to make it happen for our internal and external customers.

What You’ll Do (Responsibilities):

• Foster a forward-thinking work culture that embraces change and navigates future organizational and industry challenges.
• Build and nurture strategic relationships across various functions including software, manufacturing, and program management to synergize efforts towards future innovations.
• Participate in cross functional team to clarify requirements for flash and test.
• Participate in cross functional team to clarify infrastructure and communications between other external systems and our team.
• Track work and provide documentation of development.
• Assist in development of code.
• Assist in porting test code and customizing for new environments.
• Identify potential risks and challenges of development.
• Share lessons learned with teammates.
• Must understand and be willing to not only write code but continually check integration status and work through gaps/issues in specification with the whole enterprise in mind, not just the impact to your deliverable.

Your Skills and Abilities (Required Qualifications):

• Expert level C++ coding capability.
• Experience with Linux operating systems.
• Hardware experience.
• USB, TCP/IP, and SQL.
• Unit testing experience.
• JIRA or equivocal system experience.
• Confluence or equivocal system experience.

What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications):

• Dynamic team player who appreciates the skills their teammates bring and celebrates everyone’s wins.
• Ability to teach and learn from peers.
• Technical documentation skills.
• Desire to develop technologies that will be used throughout GM for years.
• Ability to break down large complex problems into smaller more manageable problems.
• Successful new technology integration.
• Ability to transition from lead on one subject to engineer on another subject.
• QT QML framework.

About GM

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Why Join Us

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.

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