Staff Systems Engineer Autonomy Behavior

Job Description

• Set the systems engineering approach for behavior validation from product requirements through release and monitoring including behavior decomposition metrics acceptance criteria coverage confidence and traceability.
• Lead validation strategy for major capabilities and cross-cutting behaviors by connecting safety claims legal and compliance expectations hazard analysis requirements simulation tests and release evidence.
• Set the direction for behavior evaluation and simulation at scale across synthetic tests road data and counterfactual references including scenario sourcing sampling orchestration data quality and reproducibility.
• Lead cross-functional technical reviews and guide validation tools data pipelines simulation workflows and analysis products toward repeatable systems; turning complex results into clear recommendations.

• Masters degree in systems engineering mechanical engineering aerospace engineering electrical engineering computer science robotics or a related field. Advanced degree is a plus.
• 8 or more years of professional experience in systems engineering autonomous vehicles robotics vehicle development simulation or safety-critical validation.
• A proven record of evaluating autonomous vehicles for a commercial fleet launch supervised release or other high-consequence product decision.
• Deep systems engineering fundamentals including architecture and decomposition use-case and scene modeling requirements strategy interface definition verification and validation planning and traceability.
• Professional experience defining or leading simulation evaluation at scale including the trade-offs between coverage confidence runtime cost and simulation validity.
• Strong Python experience. You should be comfortable reading and writing production-quality analysis or validation software reviewing designs and pull requests and using code to test an engineering idea quickly.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to create alignment among teams with different goals terminology and technical perspectives.
• Demonstrated stakeholder management and technical leadership across organizational boundaries. You have led work through influence not only through formal authority.
• Evidence of setting direction beyond a single project such as establishing a methodology framework lifecycle platform standard or reusable validation process adopted by other engineers or teams.

• Human benchmarking for behavior and safety evaluation including attentive human benchmark construction human percentile methods expert review and the limits of human references.
• Counterfactual analysis in simulation including AV versus human or AV versus alternate-policy comparisons under matched scene conditions.
• Experience building or using a safety case writing or reviewing safety claims and determining what validation evidence is needed to support those claims.
• Strong familiarity with hazard analysis and structured safety methods such as STPA FMEA fault trees scenario-based hazard analysis or equivalent approaches.
• Experience with risk quantification risk acceptance severity and exposure reasoning risk budgets and mitigation decisions.
• Experience turning legal or regulatory expectations into a defensible compliance strategy with requirements metrics test coverage and documented claims.
• Experience designing validation lifecycles that connect scope definition requirements hazard analysis coverage planning test generation scorecards release decisions and continuous monitoring.
• Experience building or guiding validation scorecards confidence rubrics behavior protocols or similar products used by multiple engineering teams.
• Experience reducing manual expert review through well-designed automation while preserving expert judgment where it matters.
• A track record of developing other engineers leading technical communities and making a broader organization better at systems engineering and validation.

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 $189300 to $290700. 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

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