Senior Sensor Validation Engineer — On-Vehicle & Lab Testing

General Motors; Warren (MI); Hybrid; USD 153,000 - 234,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement savings plan

GM vehicle discounts

Paid vacation & holidays

Job summary

General Motors seeks a Senior Sensor Validation Engineer to bridge hardware performance and vehicle integration. You will develop sensor characterization plans for camera, lidar, and radar and drive on-vehicle validation campaigns to ensure robust perception across driving modalities.

The role requires deep sensor physics knowledge, hands-on lab and field validation, and collaboration across hardware, perception, and vehicle teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related technical discipline or work equivalent experience.
• 5+ years in sensor validation, characterization, or test engineering.
• Experience designing vehicle-level validation tests.
• Experience with L4 autonomous vehicles and related validation needs.
• Strong knowledge of sensor physics and related domains.

Responsibilities

• Develop comprehensive sensor characterization plans for camera, lidar, and radar.
• Create vehicle validation tests to ensure safe, robust autonomous driving.
• Plan and execute on-vehicle data collection campaigns on roads and closed courses.
• Evaluate metrics like SNR, dynamic range, optical distortion, and RCS accuracy.
• Analyze placement, FOV overlap, KOZ constraints during integration.
• Collaborate with perception and hardware design to root cause anomalies.

Skills

Sensor validation

Python

MATLAB

Data analysis

Time synchronization

Sensor physics knowledge

Vehicle-level validation

On-vehicle data collection

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/ Optical/ Computer Engineering

Master's or Ph.D. preferred

Tools

Darkrooms

Collimators

Target boards

Anechoic chambers

Sensor calibration equipment

Job description

General Motors seeks a Senior Sensor Validation Engineer to bridge hardware performance and vehicle integration. You will develop sensor characterization plans for camera, lidar, and radar and drive on-vehicle validation campaigns to ensure robust perception across driving modalities.

The role requires deep sensor physics knowledge, hands-on lab and field validation, and collaboration across hardware, perception, and vehicle teams.