Senior Software Systems Engineer - Autonomous Vehicles
General Motors1 day ago
Base Salary
$153k - $234k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define AV evaluation and validation processes, including test-framework requirements, scenario and test-suite design, coverage, metrics, and confidence evidence.
- Design and implement scalable testing and simulation frameworks for test generation, execution, data collection, result aggregation, and reproducible analysis.
- Build infrastructure and data solutions using simulation and on-road data to assess autonomous vehicle performance and validation confidence.
- Evaluate simulation validity, sim-to-real correlation, predictive value, uncertainty, regressions, and AV deficiencies.
- Develop metrics, sampling approaches, analytical methods, KPIs, confidence measures, automated triage, and root-cause analysis strategies.
- Communicate data-driven insights, limitations, and recommendations to engineers, technical leaders, and stakeholders.
- Connect continuous-improvement activities to evidence supporting safety, systems, and downstream readiness decisions.
Requirements
- Strong Python programming skills and experience building maintainable analysis, evaluation, or testing tools.
- Experience designing or implementing testing, simulation, or evaluation frameworks for complex software/hardware or cyber-physical systems.
- Experience with GitHub, Jira, or equivalent tools.
- Demonstrated end-to-end ownership from problem definition through delivery and communication of outcomes.
- Analytical and systems-engineering experience involving complex software/hardware systems or ambiguous AI functions.
- Experience with root-cause analysis and analytical methods for system or behavioral performance data.
- Strong problem-solving, learning, independent execution, and cross-functional communication skills.
- Bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree in engineering, physics, applied mathematics, statistics, data science, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Preferred experience with autonomous vehicles, ADAS, robotics, simulation environments, scenario generation, large-scale test execution, statistical evaluation, risk assessment, sampling, confidence analysis, verification and validation, test automation, or large-scale evaluation systems.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance options.
- Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Accounts.
- Retirement savings plan, life insurance, sickness and accident benefits.
- Paid vacation and holidays, tuition assistance, and employee assistance program.
- GM vehicle discounts and other health and wellbeing benefits.
- Bonus potential through an incentive pay program based on company, job-level, and individual performance.
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.