Senior System Design Engineer

General Motors; Warren (MI); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Senior System Design Engineer to define and lead system design and technical specifications for autonomous driving technologies. You will work at the intersection of system, architecture, hardware and software, contributing from early concept through validation for next-gen GM vehicles.

The role includes leading technical solutions, designing interfaces, and driving documentation using industry tools. Hybrid work schedule and travel may be required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in automotive or similar electronic modules and/or systems engineering.
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related field.
• Demonstrated proficiency in writing and comprehending software and hardware requirements and interfaces.
• Experience with requirement management tools such as DOORS, DNG, JAMA etc.
• High level of oral and written communication skills and ability to work in a fast-paced environment with colleagues local and at remote sites.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and has a passion to shape the future.
• Strong technical leadership skills and an ability to work in a highly collaborative environment.
• Creative, disciplined, strong sense of responsibility, delivery and schedule commitment.

Responsibilities

• Leads and generates technical solutions including specifying of requirements, functional decomposition, analysis, development and testing for current, new and major programs.
• Designs interfaces and requirements, including detailed design development and validation using Protobufs and Feature Files.
• Lead development of software system team design content and software anomaly corrections.
• Performs complex design analysis.
• Specifies and balances system requirements.
• Provide, communicate, and support common best practices among software community.
• Performs as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for at least one platform or application component.
• Develop, maintain, and produce technical documentation and system/solution specifications with tools such as DNG, Rhapsody, Jira, Jama, GitHub, Confluence and Visual Studio.
• Lead FMEA and the allocation of identified failure modes to execution teams.
• Apply solid technical understanding, critical reasoning and a structured approach to solving problems in both familiar and unfamiliar domains.
• Participate with cross functional development team (System, SW) discussions to ensure alignment with peers and downstream customers in the product execution side of the business.

Skills

Python

C++

C

System design

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

DOORS

DNG

JAMA

Protobufs

Jira

GitHub

Job description

Job Description

About the role

At General Motors, we are proud to offer a vast array of career development resources to help you develop, grow, and make the most of your career at GM. As a Senior System Design Engineer , you will help us define, design, and lead the System Design and Technical Specifications for automated driving technologies and AV. In this position, you will have the chance to work at the intersection of System, Architecture, Hardware, Software, and automated driving technology and have a hand in the early stages of GM`s next generation vehicles.

Key responsibilities

• Leads and generates technical solutions including specifying of requirements, functional decomposition, analysis, development and testing for current, new and major programs
• Performs as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for at least AV/ADAS feature
• Leads development of software system team design content and software anomaly corrections.
• Migrates existing tests into automated pipelines in partnership with software team
• Supports on-bench and on-vehicle integration issue investigation for AV serial data in SDV2
• Visibility: at the site/team level
• Performs other related duties as assigned

Responsibilities

• Leads and generates technical solutions including specifying of requirements, functional decomposition, analysis, development and testing for current, new and major programs
• Design systems interfaces and requirements, including detailed design development and validation using Protobufs and Feature Files
• Lead development of software system team design content and software anomaly corrections.
• Performs complex design analysis
• Specifies and balances system requirements
• Provide, communicate, and support common best practices among software community.
• Performs as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for at least one platform or application component
• Develop, maintain, and produce technical documentation and system/solution specifications with tools such as DNG, Rhapsody, Jira, Jama, GitHub, Confluence and Visual Studio
• Lead FMEA and the allocation of identified failure modes to execution teams
• Apply solid technical understanding, critical reasoning and a structured approach to solving problems in both familiar and unfamiliar domains
• Participate with cross functional development team (System, SW) discussions to ensure alignment with peers and downstream customers in the product execution side of the business

Requirements

• 5 or more years of experience with automotive or similar electronic modules and/or systems engineering
• Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related field
• Demonstrated proficiency in writing and comprehending software and hardware requirements and interfaces
• Experience with requirement management tools such as DOORS, DNG, JAMA etc.
• High level of oral and written communication skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment with colleagues local and at remote sites
• Comfortable with ambiguity and has a passion to shape the future
• Strong technical leadership skills and an ability to work in a highly collaborative environment
• Creative, disciplined, strong sense of responsibility, delivery and schedule commitment

Preferred Skills

• 10 or more years of automotive experience
• Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related field
• Experience with Python, C, C++ or equivalent
• Experience with automotive simulation (Applied Intuition, Carsim, etc)
• Experience working on L2+ AV products
• Previous integration experience (sim/vehicle/bench)

Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.

This role is categorized as hybrid

This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location at least 3 times a week {or other frequency dictated by their manager}.

The selected candidate will be required to travel.

Why Join Us

We believe we all must make a choice every day - individually and collectively - to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.

Benefits Overview

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