Senior Hardware Engineer – SoC

General Motors

Senior SoC Hardware Engineer at General Motors, evaluating and integrating SoC solutions into automotive platforms. Collaborating with cross-functional teams and vendors for effective design and validation processes.

Posted 4/17/2026full-timeWarren • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Conduct in depth technical evaluations and trade off studies on SoCs and other semiconductors to identify the optimal components for a range of automotive applications.
Design and manage application schematics centered around SoCs for ECU development, ensuring high performance, cost effective solutions that meet system requirements.
Collaborate cross functionally with hardware engineering, software development, and suppliers to define design specifications and align on architectural and system-level requirements.
Develop clear and robust component specifications within your scope of responsibility to enable timely sourcing decisions aligned with electronic development and vehicle program milestones.
Establish and execute test plans to evaluate SoCs and other silicon devices, including board bring up and early validation to ensure design intent is met ahead of formal qualification.
Stay current with industry trends, maintaining a strong understanding of semiconductor product portfolios, supply chain dynamics, and emerging technology roadmaps.
Provide technical mentorship and guidance to semiconductor engineering teams throughout the design cycle from architecture definition and component selection to design reviews and sourcing activities.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
7+ years of experience in hardware design and development, with a significant system-level ownership.
Hands-on experience with circuit design and analysis, including worst case analysis, DFMEA, circuit simulation tools and schematic capture tools (i.e. mentor graphics).
Knowledge of SoC subsystems and IP blocks, including memory, analog, processor cores, interconnects, and peripherals.
Demonstrated proficiency in SoC analysis and selection, including requirements driven studies, benchmarking, and technical trade-off evaluations.
Proven experience in silicon bring up and ECU level hardware integration and validation.
Hands-on experience with hardware debugging tools such as oscilloscopes.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Opportunities for relocation benefits

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Hard Skills & Tools

hardware designcircuit designcircuit analysisDFMEAcircuit simulationSoC analysissilicon bring upECU integrationcomponent specificationstest plans

Soft Skills

technical mentorshipcollaborationcommunicationcross-functional teamworkproblem-solvingleadership

Certifications

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical EngineeringBachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering