Senior Validation & Analytics Engineer - Autonomous Systems

General Motors; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 153,000 - 234,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing benefits

GM vehicle discounts

Relocation benefits

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Senior Software Systems Engineer to develop methods, software, and evidence to measure validation confidence for autonomous vehicle validation results. The role spans software and systems engineering, simulation, statistics, and data science to answer questions about test coverage and regression detection.

You will build data pipelines, evaluate simulation validity, and translate judgments into measurable criteria while collaborating with multiple teams to deliver

Qualifications

• Strong programming skills in Python, C++, or a comparable language with clear, testable code.
• Experience applying engineering or quantitative methods to a physical or cyber-physical system.
• Turn ambiguous validation questions into measurable requirements, metrics, experiments, or decision criteria.
• Collaborate across disciplines and explain technical results with precision and context.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, physics, applied mathematics, statistics, data science, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Develop scalable frameworks and methods for measuring validation confidence across simulation and real-world testing.
• Build tools and data pipelines for test execution, analysis, metric computation, scorecards, and confidence reporting.
• Evaluate simulation validity and road predictive power using measurable criteria; analyze data for uncertainty, regressions, gaps.
• Translate validation claims into requirements, experiments, test suites, metrics, and decision criteria.
• Improve throughput, repeatability, and quality of validation workflows.
• Collaborate with simulation, safety, autonomy, and release teams and communicate conclusions clearly.

Skills

Python

C++

Quantitative methods

Requirements engineering

Cross-functional collaboration

Autonomous vehicles/ cyber-physical

Simulation

Data pipelines/SQL

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering/physics/math/data science

Graduate degree (preferred)

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Job description

General Motors is seeking a Senior Software Systems Engineer to develop methods, software, and evidence to measure validation confidence for autonomous vehicle validation results. The role spans software and systems engineering, simulation, statistics, and data science to answer questions about test coverage and regression detection.

You will build data pipelines, evaluate simulation validity, and translate judgments into measurable criteria while collaborating with multiple teams to deliver