Autonomous Fleet Reliability Engineer

General Motors; Milford Charter Township (MI); On-site; USD 124,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors is developing advanced driving-assistance and autonomous-vehicle capabilities. The Fleet Reliability Engineer will help keep the operational fleet mission-ready by combining vehicle-level troubleshooting, reliability analysis, maintenance and readiness support, and disciplined follow-through on corrective actions.

This role is part of the AV Operations organization and collaborates with Fleet Management, Service Operations, Troubleforce, Vehicle Integration, AV software and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related technical discipline.
• Experience in automotive/autonomous vehicles or related operations environment.
• Experience troubleshooting complex electromechanical, software-enabled vehicle systems.
• Root-cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Ability to interpret diagnostics, logs, and metrics.

Responsibilities

• Monitor fleet health and uptime for AV test and data-collection vehicles, Milford Proving Ground focus.
• Investigate host-vehicle systems, sensors, compute, connectivity, localization, charging, and software-health conditions.
• Lead structured troubleshooting from issue ID to closure with containment and validation.
• Prioritize work orders with Service Operations to remove blockers and improve repair quality.
• Provide timely technical support for escalations and fleet-downing events; distinguish safe mitigations from engineering actions.
• Analyze work-order and telemetry data to identify reliability hotspots and trends.
• Develop reliability reports, failure timelines, and readiness views for leadership.
• Create problem statements and evidence packages to aid partner engineering teams.
• Translate operational issues into engineering work orders, retrofit recommendations, and tests.
• Support fleet changes, updates, retrofits, and change-control processes.

Skills

Structured problem solving

Data interpretation

Clear communication

Hands-on operational environment

On-site collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, electrical, automotive, systems, industrial, computer engineering

Tools

Jira

Confluence

SQL

Python

Job description

General Motors is developing advanced driving-assistance and autonomous-vehicle capabilities. The Fleet Reliability Engineer will help keep the operational fleet mission-ready by combining vehicle-level troubleshooting, reliability analysis, maintenance and readiness support, and disciplined follow-through on corrective actions.

This role is part of the AV Operations organization and collaborates with Fleet Management, Service Operations, Troubleforce, Vehicle Integration, AV software and