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Staff Software Engineer
General Motors Company · 🇺🇸 2 Locations
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 606 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 267 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What General Motors Company paid sponsored hires in similar roles171 certified filings for “Senior Software Engineer” (Software Developers) in MI: $140k–$163k, median $150k. Most were filed at wage level IV (74%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — General Motors Company
The US Department of Labor certified 606 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 267 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Job Description The AV HIL Software Platforms team in the GM Autonomous Vehicle (AV) Organization is responsible to develop and scale high-fidelity and reliable Hardware-in-Loop validation platforms to test AV software prior to deployment, to ensure enterprise usability, end-user functionality, and provide high quality, use case driven signals, such as AV Performance Validation and AV System Reliability. As a Staff Software Engineer on the AV HIL Software Platforms Team, you get to be at the intersection of AV software and AI models, and the hardware systems that are responsible for vehicle autonomy! You will have an opportunity to work on what it takes to run, deploy, and test on the next generation of GM AVs. This is a highly collaborative team with close collaboration with various teams within the core AV organization including AV Infrastructure, Embodied AI, AV/AI Platform, Model Deployment, Middleware, OS, Sensor Applications, and Vehicle Integration. This role blends expertise in Software development, software optimization, managing and deploying HIL Services as a PaaS, and hardware-aware engineering. What you’ll be doing (Responsibilities) • Define and drive the long-term technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for AV HIL software platforms and integration services across multiple products, programs, and development organizations. • Lead the design and evolution of highly scalable, reliable, observable, and hardware-aware HIL capabilities that support AV software validation from development through deployment. • Establish architectural direction and technical standards for platform services, APIs, service reliability, test automation, performance, and operational excellence. • Own the most complex, ambiguous, and business-critical technical problems spanning AV software, AI models, vehicle hardware, infrastructure, middleware, operating systems, and deployment pipelines. • Translate organizational and customer needs into clear technical strategies, measurable outcomes, platform requirements, and incremental delivery plans. • Influence technical decisions across the AV organization and build alignment among senior technical leaders, product stakeholders, and partner teams. • Deliver reliable software and platforms through strong engineering practices, including requirements generation, design reviews, continuous integration, automated testing, observability, issue management, release readiness, and operational support. • Identify opportunities to improve platform scalability, utilization, fidelity, developer productivity, and cost efficiency; define success metrics and drive sustained improvements. • Serve as a hands-on technical leader who contributes to critical software designs and implementations while raising the engineering quality of the broader organization. • Mentor and develop engineers across experience levels, strengthen technical communities of practice, and help shape hiring and talent-development strategies. • Represent AV HIL Software Platforms in cross-functional architecture reviews and technical planning forums, communicating complex trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical audiences. Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications) • 10+ years of experience designing, developing, and delivering production-quality software systems, including significant experience leading large or highly complex technical initiatives. • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field; Master’s or PhD preferred. • Expert software engineering and systems fundamentals, with strong coding ability in Python, C++, or comparable languages. • Demonstrated ability to define and execute technical strategy for complex, distributed, hardware-software systems