Senior Software Engineering, Vehicle Data Platform (Automotive)

Location: Hybrid, with a minimum of three office days per week in Markham or Oshawa, Ontario, Canada

Salary: $115,000–$164,600 annual base salary

Company

hirify.global develops automotive products and software with a vision of zero crashes, zero emissions, and zero congestion.

What you will do

• Design and maintain vehicle control-plane components that retrieve cloud configuration and apply it across ECUs.
• Build data-plane and logging components that collect, process, transfer, and manage vehicle data.
• Develop SDK libraries, applications, services, API documentation, and adoption examples for application teams.
• Deliver software across Android, Linux, and QNX compute modules, including optimization for limited CPU, memory, storage, bandwidth, and intermittent connectivity.
• Integrate Azure, AWS S3, Firestore, observability, unit and integration testing, and CI/CD workflows.
• Review code, support production issues, collaborate with cloud, DevOps, cybersecurity, and privacy teams, contribute to open source, and mentor junior engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 4+ years of hands-on development experience in C, C++, Java, or Kotlin for Android.
• Experience developing for Linux, Android, and/or QNX and delivering software to production ECUs or other resource-constrained devices.
• Knowledge of distributed systems, configuration management, data pipelines, API design and versioning, SDKs or libraries, and production troubleshooting.
• Understanding of automotive cybersecurity, data protection, network security protocols, mTLS, certificate-based device identity, unit and integration testing, and CI/CD.
• Must work in a hybrid arrangement with at least three office days per week in Markham or Oshawa, Ontario. GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role.

Nice to have

• Vehicle communication protocols including UDS, CAN, SOME/IP, or XCP, and familiarity with AUTOSAR.
• OpenTelemetry, protobuf, gRPC, Fluent Bit, or other observability and data-plane technologies.
• AWS, GCP, Azure, IoT device-management services, and Firestore experience.
• Automotive knowledge covering ECU architectures, SoC platforms, diagnostics, failure analysis, and crash analysis.

Culture & Benefits

• Paid time off, vacation days, holidays, and supplemental pregnancy, parental, and adoption leave.
• Healthcare, dental, vision, and life insurance benefits.
• Defined Contribution Pension plan with company matching contributions.
• GM Vehicle Purchase Plan for employees and their families.
• Inclusive workplace focused on belonging, equity, and meaningful change.

Hiring process

• Applicants may complete a role-related assessment and pre-employment screening where applicable.