Remote AV Safety Data Analytics Engineer

General Motors; Olympia (WA); On-site; USD 139,000 - 188,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors seeks an experienced Safety Data Analysis Engineer to provide data-driven support for AV Operational Safety and Issue Response. You will integrate telemetry, event data, and software release information to inform safety decisions, while driving rapid, iterative investigations.

The role emphasizes designing scalable analytics, collaborating across safety, engineering, and operations, and applying signal processing to vehicle behavior data.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, physics, applied mathematics, or a related physical science.
• 5+ years of experience analyzing large-scale time-series and telemetry data, including ROS logs.
• Strong working knowledge of Python and SQL.

Responsibilities

• Respond to AV Safety Strategy requests for analyses and root‑cause investigations.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Operations, and Safety teams to investigate AV issues.
• Translate investigation needs into analysis requirements and execution plans.
• Establish rapid incident‑response and targeted‑analysis capabilities leveraging data pipelines.
• Integrate vehicle telemetry, time‑series signals, event records, and software release data into analysis‑ready datasets.
• Distinguish data‑quality, sensor, instrumentation, and pipeline issues from meaningful operational outliers.
• Deliver concise, technically rigorous analysis findings and evidence.
• Identify reusable investigation workflows and analytics tooling.
• Apply signal processing methods to transform noisy signals into meaningful representations.

Skills

Python

SQL

Time-series analysis

Data engineering

Root-cause analysis

Communication

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering/physics

Tools

ROS logs

BigQuery

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub

CI/CD

Job description

General Motors seeks an experienced Safety Data Analysis Engineer to provide data-driven support for AV Operational Safety and Issue Response. You will integrate telemetry, event data, and software release information to inform safety decisions, while driving rapid, iterative investigations.

The role emphasizes designing scalable analytics, collaborating across safety, engineering, and operations, and applying signal processing to vehicle behavior data.