Remote Senior AV Safety & Human Factors Engineer

General Motors Company; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 246,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company vehicle program

Health and wellbeing benefits

GM vehicle discounts

Job summary

General Motors seeks a Staff AV Safety Engineer, Human Factors, to lead human factors safety across GM’s automated driving systems. You will assess interaction between the driver, vehicle, and automation, translating complex issues into actionable safety requirements and design guidance.

You’ll work across safety, systems engineering, design, legal, and external research, applying hazard analysis methods and driving research plans while ensuring regulatory and internal safety standards are met.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Factors, Systems Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 10+ years applying human factors to safety-critical transportation systems.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a recognized human factors safety expert to advance development and best practices.
• Apply specialized knowledge to lead hazard analyses of features and components considering human factors such as driver-automation interaction and operator performance.
• Derive traceable requirements, mitigations, validation activities, and operational controls from hazard assessments.
• Provide safety direction for human-machine interface features including driver monitoring and alerts.
• Evaluate automated-system interactions for safe understanding and decision-making under varied conditions.
• Define research questions and execution strategies and translate results into safety requirements and best practices.
• Integrate data and evidence into benchmarks, performance thresholds, and validation needs.
• Lead hazard analysis of incidents to identify human error factors and improve design and procedures.
• Contribute to training, fatigue management, and performance-monitoring programs.

Skills

Human factors expertise

Hazard analysis

Automation system interaction

Technical writing

Cross-functional communication

Stakeholder influence

Safety requirements derivation

Driver monitoring systems

Safety-case development

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Human Factors, Systems Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or related field

Tools

JAMA

DOORS

Job description

General Motors seeks a Staff AV Safety Engineer, Human Factors, to lead human factors safety across GM’s automated driving systems. You will assess interaction between the driver, vehicle, and automation, translating complex issues into actionable safety requirements and design guidance.

You’ll work across safety, systems engineering, design, legal, and external research, applying hazard analysis methods and driving research plans while ensuring regulatory and internal safety standards are met.