Senior Autonomy Validation Systems Engineer

General Motors; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 189,000 - 291,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Retirement savings plan

Tuition assistance

GM vehicle discounts

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Staff Autonomy Behavior Systems Engineer to define the technical direction for behavior specification, evaluation, and evidence-based validation. You will collaborate across behavior, software, simulation, safety, legal, product, and operations to build a validation system for sound safety and launch decisions, with continuous operation.

You will connect requirements, scene definitions, metrics, acceptance criteria, coverage, simulation validity, human references, and

Qualifications

• Master's degree in related field; advanced degree is a plus.
• 8+ years in systems engineering, autonomous vehicles, robotics, or safety-critical validation.
• Proven record evaluating autonomous vehicles for commercial fleets or similar decision-making.
• Deep systems engineering fundamentals: architecture, decomposition, requirements strategy, traceability.
• Experience defining large-scale simulation evaluation with trade-offs on coverage, confidence, runtime, and cost.
• Strong Python experience; ability to read/write production-quality analysis code.
• Strong communication and cross-team alignment skills.
• Evidence of leadership across organizational boundaries and establishing reusable validation processes.

Responsibilities

• Set the systems engineering approach for behavior validation from requirements through release and monitoring.
• Lead validation strategy by connecting safety claims, expectations, hazard analysis, requirements, tests, and evidence.
• Set direction for behavior evaluation and simulation at scale across synthetic tests, road data, and counterfactuals.
• Lead cross-functional reviews and guide validation tools, data pipelines, simulation workflows, and analysis products toward repeatable systems.

Skills

Systems engineering

Python programming

Validation

Simulation

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Master's degree in engineering or related field

Tools

Python

Job description

General Motors is seeking a Staff Autonomy Behavior Systems Engineer to define the technical direction for behavior specification, evaluation, and evidence-based validation. You will collaborate across behavior, software, simulation, safety, legal, product, and operations to build a validation system for sound safety and launch decisions, with continuous operation.

You will connect requirements, scene definitions, metrics, acceptance criteria, coverage, simulation validity, human references, and