Remote Senior Manager, Autonomy Evaluation

generalmotors; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 296,000 - 454,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Senior Manager to lead a critical autonomy evaluation area, spanning platform, methodology, and organizational execution. You will shape the evaluation strategy across ML components, data pipelines, and release gating while leading a strong, diverse team.

You will drive cross-functional alignment with Autonomy, Simulation, Systems, and Safety, translating complex results into actionable plans for leadership and engineering. This hybrid role anchors near major GM sites.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in robotics, autonomous systems software, data analysis, ML evaluation or large-scale data platforms.
• 5+ years of people leadership in complex engineering organizations.
• Ownership of a distinct technical area with strategy and KPI management.
• Technical leadership, architecture decisions, end-to-end services.
• Production infra for large-scale data processing, orchestration and observability.
• Python/C++ in production, including testing and performance.
• Experience with time-series data and evaluating dynamic systems.
• Strong analytical curiosity and root-cause capability.
• Clear communication of complex findings to executives and engineers.
• Bachelor/Master/PhD or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Own strategy and roadmap for autonomy evaluation; align with product, safety and release needs.
• Define end-to-end evaluation strategy for performance, risk and gating.
• Drive cross-functional alignment across Autonomy, Simulation, Systems and Safety.
• Oversee ML components across perception, prediction and planning; ensure scalability and explainability.
• Develop new statistical/ML methods to quantify performance across scenes.
• Leverage AI techniques for classification and prioritization of validation work.
• Maintain high technical bar with design reviews, testing and observability.
• Develop scalable evaluation infra: data pipelines, orchestration, tooling.
• Translate results into clear feedback for leadership and engineering.

Skills

10+ years experience

5+ years people leadership

strategy and roadmap

technical leadership

production infrastructure

Python/C++ production

ML evaluation

time-series analysis

data analysis

cross-functional influence

Education

Bachelor’s/Master’s/PhD in CS/Robotics/ML

Tools

SQL

ROS

PyTorch

ML frameworks

Job description

General Motors is seeking a Senior Manager to lead a critical autonomy evaluation area, spanning platform, methodology, and organizational execution. You will shape the evaluation strategy across ML components, data pipelines, and release gating while leading a strong, diverse team.

You will drive cross-functional alignment with Autonomy, Simulation, Systems, and Safety, translating complex results into actionable plans for leadership and engineering. This hybrid role anchors near major GM sites.