Technical Fellow - Vehicle Services Infrastructure

Job Title

At General Motors in Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Job Description

This role is based remotely but if you live within a 50-mile radius of Atlanta, Austin, Detroit, Warren, Milford, or Mountain View, you are expected to report to that location three times a week, at minimum.

As Technical Fellow in the Vehicle Services Infrastructure organization, you will serve as a senior architect across the entire engineering stack related to vehicle communication and the connected back-end services powering features in all GM consumer vehicles globally. While this is an individual contributor role, it carries significant leadership responsibility, focusing on defining the long-term technology strategy to improve vehicle connectivity performance, reliability, and responsiveness.

You will influence cross-functional teams and executive stakeholders, providing technical vision and direction for highly complex, multi-year initiatives. This role demands not only deep technical knowledge but also the ability to lead without direct authority-mentoring engineers, aligning competing priorities, and guiding architectural decisions across multiple organizations.

What You'll Do

- Define strategic technical direction for vehicle connectivity and supporting backend services

- Serve as a senior architect across the full software stack, influencing major multi-year projects

- Lead cross-functional architecture reviews and technology planning sessions

- Mentor and guide engineers and architects across multiple organizations

- Influence executive decision-making through well-articulated proposals and vision

- Partner with third-party vendors and internal teams to drive secure and scalable design solutions

- Deliver robust, fault-tolerant, and high-performance network and communication systems

- Ensure successful delivery of large-scale software initiatives from concept through execution

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

- 15+ years of experience in software development

- At least 5 years in a technical leadership or architecture role

- Proven experience delivering large-scale, complex initiatives across multi-functional teams

- Expertise in full-stack development and back-end system design

- Strong background in vehicle connectivity or similar distributed systems

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

- Ability to lead and mentor diverse engineering teams

- Demonstrated success influencing executive-level stakeholders

What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

- Experience with robust and fault-tolerant networking and communication protocols

- Knowledge of secure connectivity solutions between devices

- Experience optimizing web services for user-facing performance

- Familiarity with negotiating technical direction and integration with third-party vendors

- Prior experience leading initiatives that span multiple Director-level organizations

- Background in automotive or embedded systems is a plus

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 New York, Colorado, California, or Washington.

+ The salary range for this role is $219,000 to $396,700. 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.

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.

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