Senior Safety Validation Lead: System Integration & Compliance

Jobtailor; Missouri; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a senior engineer to lead validation and integration for vehicle systems, ensuring compliance and evidence management across projects. You will coordinate cross-functional teams across bench, vehicle, and virtual environments, translate requirements into test plans, and drive readiness for safety and regulatory milestones.

This role emphasizes mentoring engineers and delivering audit-ready documentation; GM Behaviors apply.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related discipline.
• 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 environments.
• Experience owning or leading validation planning, execution, readiness, 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; ability to present readiness, risks, and trade-offs clearly.
• Must not require GM immigration sponsorship; able to operate a motor vehicle and pass MVR.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for translating infrastructure requirements into test intent and coverage.
• Sponsor and review executable test intent aligned with architecture, safety, and customer requirements.
• Coach SIVEs and Senior SIVEs on ownership, validation objectives, and coverage.
• Define and champion traceability and evidence-management practices across tools.
• Ensure audit-ready evidence flow and documentation across HW/SW and system teams.
• Oversee integration and system validation across benches, vehicles, and virtual environments.
• Define playbooks for exploratory testing and variant evaluation.
• Resolve complex cross-system hardware and software integration issues.
• Lead readiness, compliance, and governance discussions in ADV, PAR, DVUL, Regulatory forums.
• Ensure validation and milestone status are accurate and decision-ready.
• Guide compliance dependency management with DRE and supplier inputs and export/cert docs.
• Lead cross-functional triage for high-impact integration and validation issues.
• Convert technical discussions into owners, actions, timing, escalation, and risk plans.
• Support plant, launch, and field teams by coordinating issues affecting launch readiness.
• Improve cross-functional operating model for system integration and validation.
• Foster handshakes across systems, safety, software, calibration, validation, and suppliers.
• Mentor engineers and lead by example through accountability and GM Behaviors.

Skills

Validation Planning

Test Case Development

Root-Cause Analysis

Traceability Practices

System-Level Testing

Issue Management

Acceptance Criteria Interpretation

Failure Mode Analysis

Technical Deliverables Ownership

Engineering Degree

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

DNG

ETM

Jira

Virtual Test Environments

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking a senior engineer to lead validation and integration for vehicle systems, ensuring compliance and evidence management across projects. You will coordinate cross-functional teams across bench, vehicle, and virtual environments, translate requirements into test plans, and drive readiness for safety and regulatory milestones.

This role emphasizes mentoring engineers and delivering audit-ready documentation; GM Behaviors apply.