Senior Lidar Systems Engineer for Autonomous Driving

General Motors; Washington; Hybrid; USD 239,000 - 366,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Health and wellbeing benefits

Relocation benefits available

Job summary

General Motors is advancing lidar for autonomous driving across multiple vehicle programs. You will own the lidar strategy, define performance requirements, and lead cross-functional teams of sensors and perception experts to deliver production-ready solutions.

The role emphasizes deep lidar expertise, weather robustness, and experience with SPAD lidar technology, data-driven root-cause analysis, and robust verification. Hybrid work in Washington State is possible.

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 majority 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.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical strategy for lidar development as part of autonomy program multi-modality sensing suites.
• Lead trade studies considering performance, cost, and integration to influence next-generation lidar development.
• Define lidar performance requirements to achieve next-generation autonomy capabilities across broad ODDs.
• Work with production teams and vendors to realize technology in production designs.

Skills

Lidar development

SPAD lidars

Data analysis

Root cause analysis

Cross-functional leadership

Education

M.S. in EE/Optical Physics

Job description

General Motors is advancing lidar for autonomous driving across multiple vehicle programs. You will own the lidar strategy, define performance requirements, and lead cross-functional teams of sensors and perception experts to deliver production-ready solutions.

The role emphasizes deep lidar expertise, weather robustness, and experience with SPAD lidar technology, data-driven root-cause analysis, and robust verification. Hybrid work in Washington State is possible.