Staff Engineer, AV Change Management & Assurance (GPSSC)

The Role

The Safety Assurance for Effective Autonomous Driving Software (SAFEADS) department is part of GMs Global Product Safety Systems and Certification (GPSSC) organization. Our mission is to help GM deliver trusted automateddriving products.As the central authority for automated driving system (ADS) safety SAFEADS brings together experts from across the company to develop andmaintaina comprehensive safety case including safety performance indicators for GMs automateddriving technologies.

GMs vision is zero crashes zero emissions and zero congestionand autonomous vehicle safety is essential to achieving that vision.

The Staff EngineerAVChangeManagement& Assuranceis responsible fordriving the development governance and continuous improvement of theSafety Management System (SMS) and associated assurance processes. This role leads crossfunctional initiatives that strengthen safety case evidence enhance quality controls mature internal evaluation frameworks and ensure organizational readiness for AV deployments. The role requires balancing strategic program leadership with handson technical oversight including document control deviation management metrics analysis and support of enterprise-wide change management. This position serves as a key integrator across AV engineering quality operations and safety functions to ensure that AV products meet the highest standards of safetyevidencegeneration and organizational conformance.

What Youll Do

Strategy and Execution

• Lead development and continual improvement of the AV Internal Evaluation Programframework to assess system readiness and organizational maturity.

• Facilitate theSafetyAssurance Review Board ensuring cross-functional alignmenton safety caseevidencecredibility and decision-making.

• Drive the AV Safety & Quality Change Management Program to ensure smooth adoption of new processes tools and safety governance expectations.

• Oversee the enterprise-wide AV deviation process ensuring consistent classification escalation and visibility of safety-impacting deviations.

• Develop andmaintainthe SC3 Document Management System strategy to support traceabilityevidenceintegrity and scalability.

• Own publication and maintenance of the AV SMS Manual and associated enterprise SMS documentation.

• Align AV SMS safety assurance elements with broader organizational processes quality systems and technical governance structures.

Technical

• Manage SMS documents records and artifacts across controlled repositories includingADSsystems.

• Track analyze and report Safety Performance Indicators (SPIs) and metric trends to inform internal evaluations and risk identification.

• Conduct quality control reviews of products and artifacts generated through assurance activities to ensure accuracy completeness and audit readiness.

• Support development and delivery of training materials and communications for new and evolving AV safety and quality processes.

• Administer and enhance workflows within the AV deviation management toolset to ensure consistent documentation and lifecycle tracking.

• Provide hands-on development and structuring of safety case evidence packages for readiness reviewdiscussions.

• Maintain structured document control practices to ensure proper versioning approvals traceability and compliance with SMS expectations.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• Proven experience of10 yearsinquality management change management or safety managementin a safety critical industry:AutonomyAutomotive Nuclear Aviation or similar

• Proven experienceof5 yearsleadingcross-functional boards/committeesdrivedecisionsresolveconflicts andmaintaintraceability and accountability across engineeringqualityand operations.

• Hands-on experience planning and executing enterprise change (process tools policy) including stakeholder mapping adoption metrics communications and training

• Deep familiarity with document management systems and records controls (versioning approvals meta data retention)

• Ability to define SPIs build trend dashboards perform root-cause andleading/lagging analysis and translate insights into governance actions and evaluation outcomes.

• Experience authoring/structuring arguments and evidence packages; familiarity with Goal Structuring Notation (GSN) or equivalent argumentation patterns

• Thrive in ambiguity craftingsimplicityand order

• Effective at building consensus acrossdifferent functions

• Self motivationandenthusiasmtoleadcomplexprogramsdevelop teams promote collaborationencourage standard methodologies andconstantly improve

What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

• Knowledge ofautonomous vehiclesafety systemsand compliance requirements for autonomous vehicle design safety permitting testing training operations and reportingunder various regulatory regimes.

• Experience with autonomous vehicles or other sophisticatedhigh qualityproducts from design through launch and scale.

• Experience withSafety Case development in robotics aerospace transportation or similar with familiarity balancing trades between depth and breadth of implementation.

• Experience with processes such as Engineering Change Requests Software change management and/or early development vehicle change management