Staff Embedded Software Developer (Automotive)

Location: Hybrid in Markham or Oshawa, Ontario; office attendance required at least three days per week

Salary: CAD 147,000–196,600 per year

Company

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

What you will do

• Design, implement, and maintain on-vehicle control plane infrastructure that retrieves cloud configuration and applies it across vehicle ECUs.
• Build and optimize the on-vehicle data plane for collecting, processing, and forwarding vehicle data to cloud storage.
• Improve reliability over intermittent connectivity, accelerate configuration convergence, and minimize CPU and memory usage on target ECUs.
• Integrate with Azure, AWS S3, and Firestore for configuration delivery, device state reporting, and data egress.
• Collaborate with DevOps and Cloud teams to safely deploy vehicle software and configuration, while adding observability for fleet monitoring and production diagnostics.
• Drive technical direction for configuration distribution, version management, device identity, remote diagnostics, and fleet management across thousands of vehicles; mentor peers and contribute to open-source projects.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of hands-on software development experience with C, C++, or related languages.
• Experience developing for Linux, Android, and QNX platforms.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, configuration management, large-scale data pipelines, and fleet or control-plane management systems.
• Familiarity with UDS, CAN, SOME/IP, XCP, and AUTOSAR standards.
• Experience leading complex cross-organizational initiatives, troubleshooting production issues, and supporting software in the field.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of mTLS, certificate-based device identity, device security, and cloud-to-device authentication.
• Experience with AWS, GCP, Azure device-management services, OpenTelemetry, Firestore, CI/CD, and automation tools.
• Experience building fleet management, OTA, or remote configuration systems, or contributing to Fluent Bit and other data-intensive open-source projects.

Culture & Benefits

• Paid vacation, 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, collaboration, and meaningful change.
• Immigration-related sponsorship is not provided; candidates must not require GM sponsorship now or in the future.

Hiring process

• Artificial Intelligence may be used during the hiring process.
• Role-related assessments and pre-employment screening may be required where applicable.