Staff State Estimation Engineer
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Job Location:
Mountain View, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 160200 - 245400
Posted on:
21-09-2025
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Job Description
The Role:
As a Technical Lead within the SEAM Embodied AI organization you will be a senior individual contributor driving cutting-edge sensor calibration and state estimation solutions that directly impact autonomous driving performance. Your role is pivotal in designing architecting and deploying advanced systems for purposes including pinpointing the vehicles location in the world and calibrating parameters of all sensors to ensure they optimally support many other vehicle subsystems. Youll lead critical technical initiatives collaborate closely with cross-functional teams mentor engineers across the organization and significantly shape the future of onboard autonomous driving capabilities.
What Youll Do:
Drive the design development and deployment of advanced sensor calibration systems delivering solutions for state estimation localization and more.
Lead and architect complex projects from conception through validation to onboard implementation emphasizing scalability robustness and safety-critical operation.
Champion innovation in multi-sensor self-calibration in unstructured environments state estimation architectures and fault tolerance strategies suited for real-time onboard deployment.
Provide technical mentorship and thought leadership elevating engineering practices and fostering innovation across teams.
Collaborate closely with multidisciplinary engineering groups ensuring seamless integration of localization sensor alignment and other capabilities into autonomous vehicle systems.
Influence technical roadmaps shaping strategic priorities aligned with company objectives and product milestones.
Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications):
Masters or Ph.D. in Robotics Computer Science Electrical Engineering or a related technical field.
8-10 years of extensive experience developing and deploying advanced state estimation and/or sensor calibration systems particularly in real-time onboard applications.
Proven track record as a technical leader and expert in sensor calibration state estimation and/or localization operating on a wide variety of sensor inputs to perform robustly within safety-critical systems.
Strong software engineering proficiency particularly in C and Python alongside extensive hands-on experience with development integration and testing tools.
Excellent communication collaboration and mentoring abilities comfortable influencing technical strategy and guiding engineering excellence across the organization.
What Will Give You A Competitive Edge:
AV/ADAS experience
Remote:
This role is based remotely but if you live within a 50-mile radius of Atlanta Austin Detroit Warren Milford or Mountain View you are expected to report to that location three times a week at minimum.
Compensation:
The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance with applicable state laws. The compensation may not be representative for positions located outside of New York Colorado California or Washington.
The salary range for this role is $160200 - $245400. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.
Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance job level and individual performance.
Benefits:
GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs. Benefit options include medical dental vision Health Savings Account Flexible Spending Accounts retirement savings plan sickness and accident benefits life insurance paid vacation & holidays tuition assistance programs employee assistance program GM vehicle discounts and more.
Company Vehicle:
Upon successful completion of a motor vehicle report review you will be eligible to participate in a company vehicle evaluation program through which you will be assigned a General Motors vehicle to drive and evaluate. Note: program participants are required to purchase/lease a qualifying GM vehicle every four years unless one of a limited number of exceptions applies.
This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.
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