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GM Looking To Hire Ultifi Software Developers And Engineers Around The World

As GM makes strides to enhance its vehicle offerings with the latest technology features, the automaker is also expanding its hirings to include additional software developers and engineers. The new hires will work to develop Ultifi, GM’s new end-to-end software platform, which is designed to deliver new software-defined features, apps, and services to customers wirelessly, including for both gasoline-powered vehicles and EVs.

As reported by Detroit Free Press, GM is looking to hire roughly 300 to 400 new software specialists to build out the new Ultifi platform. The new hires will also work to develop new vehicle apps and other technology offerings. The new positions include low-level system work and writing customer-facing apps and features.

In its search, GM is looking for software developers around the world with a range of experience, including developers right out of college and more experienced hires as well. The new GM software development takes places at numerous locations scattered across the U.S., such as in Warren, Austin, and Phoenix, as well as internationally, such as in Canada and Israel.

“We’re building up the team to create the Ultifi platform and all the services, pieces and parts that need to be in place for that, which is about 100 people,” said GM’s director of software program and solution management, Gary Cygan, per the recent Detroit Free Press report. “We’re staffing out the other areas that are building what sits on top of the platform: the apps, the features, the customization, things that we want to deliver to the customer.”

Due to the high level of technology baked into modern automobiles, GM must address the development of a broad range of software systems. As such, GM is competing with major tech companies when it comes to finding the best people for the job.

“Automotive is the next frontier of massive disruption from a software perspective,” Cygan said.

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Jonathan is an automotive journalist based out of Southern California. He loves anything and everything on four wheels.

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  1. Sure wish I was 20 years old again. Jobs opportunities has never been in demand like this in my lifetime. The automobile has become a mobile computer based vehicle and with EV starting to hit the market, the days learning to be a mechanic spinning wrenches will one day become nearly extinct like TV repairmen. It’ll take a long time but that is the direction the industry is going.

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    1. Appears to be a very challenging and rewarding career choice.

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  2. My daughter is a senior in high school and is preparing for college this fall. She will be entering as undeclared but her interests lie in criminology or criminal justice. I’ve been trying too persuade her to at a minimum get a minor in information technologies. I’m a software architect and involved in the hiring process. We just can’t find qualified people. Bureau of Labor Statistics currently states that there are 560,000 open IT jobs and US universities are only churning out 75,000 IT people a year. I don’t get it. Its one of the few jobs where a bachelor degree will net you 100,000 a year by the time you turn 30 and kids don’t want to do it. Just like this article states, GM is having to search the globe just to find 400 developers.

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    1. From what I hear from people in the sector, software development is very boring and redundant. Folks get burned out after a few years.

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      1. Sometimes i wish my job was boring.

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  3. Caterpillar is facing the same challenge with recruitment of software developers. Peoria is not attractive to these professionals so Cat has based their software development center in Chicago since it is more cosmopolitan.
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    The best software engineers have proved to be Hindu East Indians as they have within their DNA patience, detail skills, and math processes. Developing and writing bazillions of lines of code and finding and correcting errors is mental muscle at it’s most challenging. It takes people with a certain DNA.

    Also a living location is of concern to these professionals.

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  4. Very tough recruiting challenge for qualified IT candidates. Hence worldwide reach out. Many companies in less glamorous climate and geographic areas are faced with recruitment challenges for network engineers, coders and software developers.
    Now they are accepting these professionals to work remotely from their homes in geographic areas of their choice versus basing in vintage industrial areas.

    With the digital world, fiber optic links and cell phones this has proved to be a staffing solution for this worker resource.

    Lots of offshore specialty software and network contractors are now in play.

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