Lidar Systems Architect for Autonomous Driving

General Motors Company; United States; On-site; USD 239,000 - 366,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing benefits

Job summary

General Motors seeks a principal systems engineer to steer the lidar technology path within the AV Sensing Design team, guiding system-level decisions and integration across multi-modality sensing suites for production autonomy programs.

You will collaborate with perception, localization, simulation and vehicle teams to translate lidar concepts into robust, cost-effective solutions for consumer vehicles and diverse driving environments.

Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Applied Physics or related field.
• 13+ years of experience in remote sensing, lidar development, photonic system development or related, with a majority concentrated in lidars.
• Demonstrated role as a recognized lidar authority on a program or within an organization with decision making authority on technical direction of lidar technology development.
• Direct experience developing lidar hardware and signal processing as well as calibration methodology and data consumption or analysis.
• Experience with productionization challenges of lidar technology and the trade spaces therein.
• Deep command of lidar fundamentals and their practical impacts to design across optical link budget analysis, target phenomenology, detector physics, noise, laser safety, optical path design, window optics, spectrum selection, and signal processing techniques.
• Experience developing robust solutions for weather and environmental effects
• Experience developing lidar for autonomy products
• Significant experience with SPAD lidars
• Hands-on proficiency with data analysis and ability to lead root cause analysis and analytic efforts
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability effectively communicate technical strategy to a wide range of audiences of varying background

Responsibilities

• Own the technical strategy for lidar development as a part of current and future autonomy program multi-modality sensing suites.
• Lead trade studies taking into account performance, cost, and integration to influence the next-generation of lidar development.
• Evaluate data products from prototype and production platforms to assess opportunity for improvement.
• Work with production teams and vendors to see technology realized into production designs.
• Define lidar performance requirements to achieve next-generation autonomy capabilities with robustness across broad ODDs.

Skills

Lidar hardware

Signal processing

Optical engineering

Data analysis

Root-cause analysis

Communication skills

Education

Master's degree in Electrical or Optical Engineering

PhD in related field (preferred)

Tools

SPAD lidar

Lidar productionization

Sensor fusion models

Job description

General Motors seeks a principal systems engineer to steer the lidar technology path within the AV Sensing Design team, guiding system-level decisions and integration across multi-modality sensing suites for production autonomy programs.

You will collaborate with perception, localization, simulation and vehicle teams to translate lidar concepts into robust, cost-effective solutions for consumer vehicles and diverse driving environments.