Principal Systems Architect
General Motors1 day ago
Markham, CanadaStaff+
Base Salary
$186k - $236k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define the technical vision, strategy, and functional, logical, and physical architecture for AV Platform Software.
- Translate product, business, safety, cybersecurity, regulatory, and vehicle-integration goals into roadmaps, milestone scope, systems engineering deliverables, and KPIs.
- Decompose product requirements and features into systems and subsystems while owning system-level requirements, specifications, interfaces, assumptions, constraints, traceability, and system FMEAs.
- Resolve complex issues spanning multiple teams and systems, and track, document, and roll out system changes.
- Establish role boundaries and coverage across hardware, perception, autonomy, safety, cybersecurity, validation, manufacturing, service, suppliers, and vehicle architecture.
- Drive requirements standards, artifact expectations, verification and validation strategy, and architecture metrics across AV Platform Systems Engineering.
- Identify gaps in P0 topics and autonomous-vehicle escapes, communicate architecture risks, and provide recommendations to senior leadership.
- Mentor senior and staff engineers, contribute to hiring and talent decisions, and share architectural methods and ideas across the engineering community.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in systems engineering, software engineering, computer engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, or a related technical discipline.
- Master’s degree plus at least 8 years of experience, or at least 10 years of industry experience delivering large-scale solutions and leading technical direction.
- Recognized expertise in systems architecture or software systems engineering with company-wide or industry-wide reputation.
- Experience defining architecture and short- and long-term strategy for a vehicle platform, product line, or equivalent large-scale embedded platform.
- Experience with system requirements, interfaces, verification strategy, system decomposition, interface control, traceability, risk management, system change rollout, and validation planning on safety-critical platforms.
- Experience with ISO 26262, SOTIF, Automotive SPICE, or equivalent safety-critical development frameworks.
- Experience mentoring senior and staff-level engineers and participating in hiring, promotion, or role-assessment decisions.
- Preferred experience with AV Platform software and architecture involving operating systems, middleware, state management, cybersecurity, network communications, diagnostic infrastructure, sensing, or peripherals.
- Preferred experience with model-based systems engineering, DNG, Jira, Jira Align, or comparable lifecycle-management tools.
- Preferred experience carrying architecture through production vehicle launches, influencing company-wide standards, participating in industry forums, or capturing systems-architecture intellectual property.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with expected reporting to Markham at least three times per week.
- Paid time off including vacation, holidays, and supplemental pregnancy, parental, and adoption leave.
- Healthcare, dental, vision, health care spending account, and wellness incentive benefits.
- Life insurance plans.
- Defined Contribution Pension plan with company matching contributions.
- GM Vehicle Purchase Plan for employees, family, and friends.
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About General Motors
General Motors designs, manufactures, and sells cars, trucks, and electric vehicles for consumers and commercial fleets under brands including Chevrolet, GMC, Cadillac, and Buick. A public company on the NYSE headquartered in Detroit and founded in 1908, it operates globally and is developing EVs on its Ultium battery platform. Revenue comes from vehicle and parts sales, connected services such as OnStar, and financing through GM Financial.