Senior Safety Validation Lead — SDV Architecture (Hybrid)

General Motors; Warren (MI); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Senior Safety Integration Validation Engineer Lead for SDV Architecture to drive end-to-end validation of Core ECUs and Infrastructure Functions within Software Defined Vehicle Architecture. You will mentor the SIVE community and align cross-functional partners to ensure evidence, readiness, and governance are in place for a safe, reliable vehicle platform.

The role emphasizes leadership in validation strategy, collaboration across programs, and escalating issues to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics, Computer, Systems, or related).
• 5+ years of relevant engineering experience in vehicle systems, validation, integration, or testing.
• Strong knowledge of vehicle systems, interfaces, architecture variants, and failure modes.
• Hands-on experience with system- or feature-level testing on benches, vehicles, and/or virtual test environments.
• Experience owning or leading validation planning, execution, readiness assessment, and evidence closure.
• Ability to interpret requirements and translate them into validation plans, test cases, acceptance criteria, and traceable evidence.
• Experience with issue management, root-cause analysis, and cross-functional problem solving.
• Proficiency with requirements, test management, traceability, and issue-tracking tools.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including ability to present readiness, risks, and trade-offs clearly.
• Ability to support compliance activities tied to regulatory/compliance requirements.
• Proven experience leading cross-functional integration and validation efforts across programs, domains, or architecture variants.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop engineers and to shape validation strategy at the system or domain level.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for SDV Architecture validation across Core ECUs and Infrastructure Functions.
• Define traceability and evidence-management practices; ensure audit-ready documentation.
• Oversee validation execution plans across benches, vehicles, and virtual environments.
• Lead readiness, compliance, and governance discussions for SDV Architecture in ADV, PAR, DVUL, and related forums.
• Coordinate issue triage and closure for high-impact integration issues.
• Mentor SIVEs and Senior SIVEs; shape validation strategy at system/domain level.
• Foster cross-functional collaboration and ownership during launches.

Skills

Systems engineering

Validation planning

Traceability

Issue management

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

Jira

Job description

General Motors is seeking a Senior Safety Integration Validation Engineer Lead for SDV Architecture to drive end-to-end validation of Core ECUs and Infrastructure Functions within Software Defined Vehicle Architecture. You will mentor the SIVE community and align cross-functional partners to ensure evidence, readiness, and governance are in place for a safe, reliable vehicle platform.

The role emphasizes leadership in validation strategy, collaboration across programs, and escalating issues to