Manager, Software Engineering – Diagnostics Infrastructure (Automotive)

Location: Hybrid, with a minimum of three days per week at the Markham Elevation Center; locations include Markham, Ontario and Oshawa, Ontario. Occasional travel to GM locations, supplier sites, test facilities, and vehicle or bench integration activities is required.

Salary: $147,000–$196,600 per year.

Company

hirify.global develops automotive products and autonomous-vehicle technologies focused on zero crashes, zero emissions, and zero congestion.

What you will do

• Lead, coach, and develop software engineers, including feedback, career development, performance management, hiring, and succession planning.
• Own the technical roadmap and delivery of shared diagnostic infrastructure across autonomous-driving and active-safety programs.
• Guide the architecture and implementation of UDS Server, DTC Manager, Diagnostic Monitor Library, manufacturing support services, configuration, common utilities, and scan tools.
• Partner with Systems Engineering and software teams to convert diagnostic requirements into reliable, maintainable platform software.
• Coordinate integration with AV Health, cybersecurity, software updates, communications, power management, calibration, platform software, manufacturing, service, QA, and V&V teams.
• Drive technical risk management, issue resolution, dependency tracking, release readiness, engineering quality practices, safety, compliance, serviceability, and robust degraded operation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including embedded, automotive, platform, or infrastructure software.
• Experience leading technical teams and delivering complex software across multiple stakeholders, platforms, or programs.
• Strong experience with C or C++ and Python, including software design, implementation, debugging, code review, and unit testing.
• Experience with embedded Linux or POSIX-based systems, software interfaces, interprocess communication, networking, and hardware/software integration.
• Experience with automotive diagnostics, including UDS/ISO 14229, diagnostic trouble codes, diagnostic identifiers, routines, or ECU diagnostic services.
• Experience defining or executing software quality practices, including test strategy, automation, code coverage, static analysis, and root-cause analysis.
• Strong analytical, communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills, with the ability to work effectively with distributed teams and cross-functional partners.
• Ability to travel occasionally to GM locations, supplier sites, test facilities, and vehicle or bench integration activities.

Nice to have

• Experience with diagnostic infrastructure, DTC management, monitor frameworks, manufacturing or service diagnostics, traceability, scan tools, or diagnostic configuration systems.
• Experience with SOME/IP, TCP/IP, protobuf, IPC, or other automotive communication technologies.
• Experience with Linux-based SoC platforms, Yocto, embedded middleware, or common platform software.
• Experience supporting automated driving, ADAS, active safety, sensor, compute, or vehicle platform software.
• Knowledge of functional safety, software safety, cybersecurity, ISO 26262, ASPICE, MISRA, or related automotive development practices.
• Experience delivering software for manufacturing, after-sales service, vehicle validation, HIL, or fleet operations.
• Experience with Agile or SAFe development practices, roadmap planning, and release execution.
• Experience managing suppliers, external partners, or transitions of externally developed software.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement with regular in-person collaboration at the Markham Elevation Center.
• Inclusive, collaborative culture focused on accountability, innovation, continuous improvement, and technical excellence.
• Paid time off, vacation days, holidays, and supplemental pregnancy, parental, and adoption leave benefits.
• Healthcare, dental, vision, health care spending account, wellness incentive, and life insurance plans.
• Defined Contribution Pension plan with company matching contributions and a GM Vehicle Purchase Plan.

Hiring process

• Artificial Intelligence will be used during the hiring process.
• Role-related assessments and/or pre-employment screening may be required.
• GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role.