Description The Role As a Principal Software Engineer in the Vehicle AI division, you will be the technical cornerstone of our smart cabin initiatives. You will architect, design, and deploy low-latency, high-performance AI software that runs directly on edge hardware within the vehicle. You won't just be writing code; you will define the technical roadmap, mentor senior engineers, and collaborate across hardware, UI/UX, and vehicle software teams to bring intelligent features-like natural language voice assistants, driver monitoring systems (DMS), and predictive cabin personalization-to life. Key Responsibilities - Architectural Leadership: Design scalable, secure, and real-time software architectures for AI-driven features running on automotive-grade compute platforms (e.g., Qualcomm Snapdragon Digital Chassis, NVIDIA DRIVE). - Edge AI Optimization: Lead the deployment and optimization of machine learning models (LLMs, computer vision, audio processing) for resource-constrained edge devices using TensorRT, ONNX, or similar frameworks. - System Integration: Oversee the integration of AI pipelines with foundational infotainment operating systems, particularly Android Automotive OS (AAOS) and QNX. - Cross-Functional Strategy: Partner with product managers, data scientists, and hardware engineers to balance feature ambition with compute constraints. - Mentorship & Excellence: Elevate the engineering culture by establishing best practices for code quality, CI/CD, rigorous testing, and system performance profiling. Set the standard for technical excellence within the division. - Prototyping: Rapidly prototype new AI concepts and evaluate emerging frameworks to keep GM at the cutting edge of automotive technology. Minimum Qualifications - Experience: 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 3+ years in a technical leadership or architectural role. - Programming: Expert-level proficiency in modern C++ (C++14/17/20) and Python. - Domain Expertise: Proven track record of shipping commercial software in automotive infotainment, robotics, consumer electronics, or other deeply embedded systems. - AI/ML Deployment: Hands-on experience optimizing and deploying ML models to edge hardware (NPU/GPU/DSP utilization, quantization, pruning). - OS Knowledge: Deep understanding of POSIX-compliant operating systems, Linux internals, or RTOS (QNX, VxWorks). - Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience). Preferred Qualifications - Extensive experience with Android Automotive OS (AAOS) , specifically Vehicle HAL (VHAL) and native C++ services. - Experience building or integrating advanced Voice Assistants (ASR, NLU, TTS) or Driver Monitoring Systems (DMS) into embedded environments. - Familiarity with automotive functional safety standards (ISO 26262, ASIL) and cybersecurity protocols. - Advanced degree (Master's or Ph.D.) focusing on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or Embedded Systems. Compensation: The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance with applicable state laws. The compensation may not be representative for positions located outside of the California Bay Area. The salary range for this role is (238,000 and 365,000). The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position. Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance. Benefits: GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs. Benefit options include medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance programs, employee assistance program, GM vehicle discounts and more. This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location at least 3 times a week {or other frequency dictated by their manager}. This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate. About GM Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all. 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. Total Rewards | Benefits Overview From day one, we're looking out for your well-being-at work and at home-so you can focus on realizing your ambitions. Learn how GM supports a rewarding career that rewards you personally by visiting Total Rewards resources. Non-Discrimination and Equal Employment Opportunities (U.S.) General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of unlawful discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. 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About the CompanyRain makes the next generation of payments possible across the globe. We’re a lean and mighty team of passionate builders and veteran founders. Our infrastructure makes stablecoins usable in the real-world by powering card transactions, cross-border payments, B2B purchases, remittances, and more. We partner with fintechs, neobanks, and institutions to help them launch solutions that are global, inclusive, and efficient. You will have the opportunity to deliver massive impact at a hypergrowth company that is funded by some of the top investors in fintech, crypto, and SaaS, including Sapphire Ventures, Norwest, Galaxy Ventures, Lightspeed, Khosla, and several more. If you’re curious, bold, and excited to help shape a borderless financial future, we’d love to talk. Our EthosWe believe in an open and flat structure. You will be able to grow into the role that most aligns with your goals. Our team members at all levels have the freedom to explore ideas and impact the roadmap and vision of our company. About the RoleYou'll design, build, and maintain Solana programs and the backend services that integrate with them, while contributing to shared infrastructure across EVM, Solana, and Stellar. Our platform powers crypto-backed card products — processing high transaction volumes, continuously ingesting on-chain data, and navigating the unique complexity of each chain, with scalability and reliability engineered in from day one. What You'll Do - Own and evolve Solana programs end-to-end — from development through deployment and maintenance - Build robust, scalable backend services that interact with Solana, EVM, and Stellar networks - Scale our on-chain infrastructure to support millions of users globally — powering transactions, data ingestion, and real-time processing - Play a central role in shaping the technical and product roadmap - Drive architectural decisions in a fast-moving, rapidly evolving product - Ship new capabilities quickly and iteratively to our customers What We're Looking For - Deep expertise in the Solana ecosystem, including its programming model, tooling, and best practices - Strong proficiency in Rust - Solid understanding of smart contract security patterns and common vulnerability classes - Experience with Node.js and backend systems - 2–10+ years of engineering experience; compensation will be calibrated accordingly Nice to Have - Fintech experience — neobank or card issuing background gets extra brownie points. Things that enable a fulfilling, healthy, and happy experience at Rain: - Unlimited time off 🌴 Unlimited vacation can be daunting, so we require Rainmakers to take at least 10 days off. - Flexible working ☕ We support a flexible workplace. If you feel comfortable at home, please work from home. If you’d like to work with others in an office, feel free to come in. We want everyone to be able to work in the environment in which they are their most confident and productive selves. New Rainmakers will receive a stipend to create a comfortable home environment. - Easy to access benefits 🧠For US Rainmakers, we offer comprehensive health, dental and vision plans for you and your dependents, as well as a 100% company subsidized life insurance plan. - Retirement goals💡Plan for the future with confidence. We offer a 401(k) with a 4% company match. - Equity plan 📦 We offer every Rainmaker an equity option plan so we can all benefit from our success. - Rain Cards 🌧️ We want Rainmakers to be knowledgeable about our core products and services. To support this mission, we issue a card for our team to use for testing. - Health and Wellness 📚 High performance begins from within. Rainmakers are welcome to use their card for eligible health and wellness spending like gym memberships/fitness classes, massages, acupuncture - whatever recharges you! - Team summits ✨ Summits play an important role at Rain! Time spent together helps us get to know each other, strengthen our relationships, and build a common destiny. Expect team and company off-sites both domestically and internationally.

About the CompanyRain makes the next generation of payments possible across the globe. We’re a lean and mighty team of passionate builders and veteran founders. Our infrastructure makes stablecoins usable in the real-world by powering card transactions, cross-border payments, B2B purchases, remittances, and more. We partner with fintechs, neobanks, and institutions to help them launch solutions that are global, inclusive, and efficient. You will have the opportunity to deliver massive impact at a hypergrowth company that is funded by some of the top investors in fintech, crypto, and SaaS, including Sapphire Ventures, Norwest, Galaxy Ventures, Lightspeed, Khosla, and several more. If you’re curious, bold, and excited to help shape a borderless financial future, we’d love to talk. Our EthosWe believe in an open and flat structure. You will be able to grow into the role that most aligns with your goals. Our team members at all levels have the freedom to explore ideas and impact the roadmap and vision of our company. About the RoleYou'll design, build, and maintain Soroban smart contracts on Stellar and the backend services that integrate with them, while contributing to shared infrastructure across EVM, Solana, and Stellar. Our platform powers crypto-backed card products — processing high transaction volumes, continuously ingesting on-chain data, and navigating the unique complexity of each chain, with scalability and reliability engineered in from day one. What you'll do - Own and evolve Soroban smart contracts end-to-end — from development through deployment and maintenance - Build robust, scalable backend services that interact with Stellar, EVM, and Solana networks - Scale our on-chain infrastructure to support millions of users globally — powering transactions, data ingestion, and real-time processing - Play a central role in shaping the technical and product roadmap - Drive architectural decisions in a fast-moving, rapidly evolving product - Ship new capabilities quickly and iteratively to our customers What we're looking for - Deep expertise in the Stellar ecosystem, including Soroban's programming model, tooling, and best practices - Strong proficiency in Rust - Solid understanding of smart contract security patterns and common vulnerability classes - Experience with Node.js and backend systems - 2–10+ years of engineering experience; compensation will be calibrated accordingly Nice to have, but not mandatory - Fintech experience — neobank or card issuing background gets extra brownie points - Familiarity with Stellar classic operations Things that enable a fulfilling, healthy, and happy experience at Rain: - Unlimited time off 🌴 Unlimited vacation can be daunting, so we require Rainmakers to take at least 10 days off. - Flexible working ☕ We support a flexible workplace. If you feel comfortable at home, please work from home. If you’d like to work with others in an office, feel free to come in. We want everyone to be able to work in the environment in which they are their most confident and productive selves. New Rainmakers will receive a stipend to create a comfortable home environment. - Easy to access benefits 🧠For US Rainmakers, we offer comprehensive health, dental and vision plans for you and your dependents, as well as a 100% company subsidized life insurance plan. - Retirement goals💡Plan for the future with confidence. We offer a 401(k) with a 4% company match. - Equity plan 📦 We offer every Rainmaker an equity option plan so we can all benefit from our success. - Rain Cards 🌧️ We want Rainmakers to be knowledgeable about our core products and services. To support this mission, we issue a card for our team to use for testing. - Health and Wellness 📚 High performance begins from within. Rainmakers are welcome to use their card for eligible health and wellness spending like gym memberships/fitness classes, massages, acupuncture - whatever recharges you! - Team summits ✨ Summits play an important role at Rain! Time spent together helps us get to know each other, strengthen our relationships, and build a common destiny. Expect team and company off-sites both domestically and internationally.

Build, Deploy, and Maintain AI for an Unpredictable WorldStriveworks helps organizations harness the power of artificial intelligence to solve real-world national security and business challenges by serving as the command center between data, models, and business outcomes. Founded by data scientists and engineers, Striveworks set out to make the journey from deployment to ongoing optimization simple and effective. With Striveworks, organizations aren’t just deploying AI—they’re building systems that remain reliable, adaptable, and ready to scale in an unpredictable world. Mission-critical operations require models that perform where they’re deployed, scale as workloads grow, and adapt rapidly as AI capabilities advance. Striveworks meets these demands, increasing reliability and performance while lowering costs—and enabling confident, data-driven decision-making in dynamic environments. The RoleAs a Senior Software Engineer at Striveworks, you’ll be challenged—and trusted—on day one to be a core contributor to the products and direction of the company. Our flagship product, Chariot, is used by customers to develop, deploy, and maintain production ML models. We’re looking for exemplary engineers with a product mindset, who can write quality code in Go and Python and who ultimately want to be core contributors to the direction of the company. You’re right for this challenge if you value and possess technical expertise and you push the boundaries of your own capabilities. You are outcome driven, not requirements driven. We’re looking for people who are excited about our central development themes: - Everything as Code - Cloud-neutral development - User-centric design - Hexagonal, event-driven, microservice architecture - Optimizing, deploying, and refining AI models and algorithms This position offers a fully remote work environment, or you can work hybrid/on site at our office in northwest Austin, TX. The Right FitIn addition to the specific skills and expertise detailed below, we are looking for individuals who share our values. Sharing a set of values allows us to move at the speed of trust. Collectively, we value a high-trust work environment where people respect each other and use candor kindly and constructively. We value work that intersects passion and perseverance, we geek out about the potential of our contributions, and we find joy in working hard on things that matter. Finally, we value taking ownership, having agency, and feeling individual responsibility for collective results. Here’s what else we’re looking for: - 6–8 years of hands on development experience - Excellence in Go, C++ (17 or higher), Java (11 or higher), C# (9 or higher), or Rust - Proficiency in Python - Experience with DevOps tooling: CI/CD tools, Git, Docker, Kubernetes - Proven experience with cloud architecture: commercial cloud, OpenStack - Experience in the design and development of performant, scalable services - Familiarity with database design and architecture: relational and non-relational - Ability to work cross-functionally and participate in or lead design discussions - Ability to independently lead the software development life cycle, from collaborating with product teams on requirements to executing technical design, implementation, and deployment - Experience in knowledge sharing, mentoring, and coaching (i.e., onboarding, code reviews, leading junior engineers) - Strong understanding of software development principles, such as object-oriented programming, design patterns, documentation, and agile methodologies - Driven, self-directed personality - Strong sense of mission and commitment to making a difference - Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field, or similar experience - Due to the nature of this role, candidates must be a US person (a US citizen, a US national, or a Green Card holder) The Wish ListWe’re very interested in developers who possess the above qualifications, and we heavily appreciate and consider the addition of: - Understanding of synchronous/asynchronous programming and concurrency - Comfort with integration of deep learning libraries (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow) - Experience designing RESTful, gRPC, or GraphQL APIs - Understanding of networked and distributed computing - Knowledge of messaging systems (e.g., NATS, Kafka, RabbitMQ) - Experience with workflow automation The anticipated base pay range for this position is $160,000 to $200,000/year. Striveworks’ total compensation package includes a competitive base salary, equity grants, and cash bonuses. The Benefits - Medical/dental/vision insurance - Voluntary life, long-term disability, accident, and hospital indemnity insurance - HSA and FSA (including dependent care FSA) plans - 401(k) plan - Unlimited PTO - Paid parental leave Check us out on Built In! Striveworks is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, belief, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity or expression), national origin, social or ethnic origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factors. Striveworks will not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind. If you require assistance or a reasonable accommodation in the application process, please contact Operations at hr@striveworks.us. Striveworks is a participating employer in the E-Verify program.