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Software Engineer - Battery & High Voltage
General Motors Company · 🇺🇸 Milford, Michigan, United States of America
Sponsorship verdict
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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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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 Work Classification: Hybrid: The successful candidate is expected to report to Milford, MI three times per week, at minimum, or as dictated by the business. The Role : As a Software Engineer at GM, you will be a part of the Vehicle Mechatronic Embedded Controls (VMEC) team, working in the Battery and High Voltage (BHV) Agile Release Train (ART). Your focus will be on developing and delivering high-quality software solutions for embedded control systems, specifically for controlling vehicle’s high voltage (HV) battery management, communications, sensing and processing for battery packs within GM’s EV portfolio. Your work will contribute directly to GM's vision of a world with ZERO Crashes, ZERO Emissions, and ZERO Congestion. What You'll Do : • Design, develop, and deliver high‑quality embedded software for VMEC Battery Management Systems (BMS), supporting high‑voltage battery controls, wired communication, sensing, and processing. • Ensure SW deliverables are on time and with quality in support of Wired Battery Management Systems. • Ensure compliance with safety requirements, government regulations, and GM-internal policies (e.g., MISRA guidelines). • Apply strong software engineering principles (architecture, abstraction, design patterns) to create scalable, hardware‑agnostic solutions aligned with supervisory control architectures. • Translate system, physics, controls, safety, and regulatory requirements into robust, modular software designs, including diagnostic strategies and controller communications. • Implement and validate software using automotive communication technologies (e.g., CAN, LIN, Ethernet, ARXML) and modern vehicle architectures. • Test & demonstrate software functionality & readiness, ensuring hardware agnostic solutions across all GM owned software. • Develop and maintain comprehensive diagnostics to enable fault detection, isolation, validation, and field support across controller, system, and vehicle levels. • Document requirements for design solutions and link them to test cases that can demonstrate software functionality ensuring traceability. • Verify software functionality through automated testing, HIL, bench, and vehicle testing, ensuring traceability from requirements to test cases. • Contribute technical leadership within Scrum teams, providing guidance, code reviews, and mentorship to support team execution and software quality: foster collaboration and in inclusive environment. • Collaborate cross‑functionally with Systems & Safety, Validation, Electrical Architecture, SDV, Calibration, and Vehicle Performance teams to deliver integrated solutions. • Embrace software development methodologies to ensure Software Built In Quality, promoting early bug detection, and facilitating collaboration between developers, testers, and non-technical stakeholders. • Apply Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) and Service‑Oriented Architecture (SOA) principles to enable modularity, reuse, and long‑term platform scalability. • Leverage CI/CD and DevOps practices to promote built‑in quality, early defect detection, and efficient deployment. • Develop AI-driven diagnostics and predictive analytics to enhance fault detection, prognostics, and anomaly detection within embedded control systems. Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications): • BS in Engineering – Electrical, Mechanical, Computer, Computer Science or related field and technical discipline. • 2+ years of experience with proven technical and professional skills in embedded software development. • Strong background in system design, diagnostics strategies, and control systems for embedded software applications. • Proficient in C, C++ programming and Python scripting. • Proficiency in testing strategies with hands-on e