Staff Robotics Engineer — Autonomous Planning & Controls

General Motors; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 335,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing benefits

Relocation assistance

Company vehicle program

Job summary

General Motors seeks a highly skilled engineer to shape the autonomous vehicle software stack, owning roadmaps for dynamics and controls. You will design interfaces with perception, prediction, and planning, drive safety and performance, and lead best practices across teams.

You will guide a distributed engineering staff, implement CI/CD, automated tests, and robust verification for roadway-ready features, including Active Safety and Driver Assistance.

Qualifications

• Ph.D., M.S. in controls, optimization, path planning, or related. B.S. with strong work experience in the field may be considered
• Deep expertise in Planning and Controls system design
• Experience with C++/Python in a large, distributed development environment

Responsibilities

• Shape the technical vision by owning multi-quarter roadmap designs for vehicle dynamics and controls software.
• Architect and implement system designs and interface contracts with perception, prediction and planning systems, ensuring deliverables meet performance targets and safety constraints.
• Lead technical reviews and drive software engineering best practices across the team and the larger organization.
• Contribute to Active Safety, Driver Assistance, and Super Cruise development.
• Guide other developers through system design and implementation focusing on safety, comfort, and compute efficiency.
• Establish verification and validation strategies for the vehicle dynamics and controls software, including simulation and on-road testing validation gates.
• Partner with Safety, Systems Engineering, and Product to generate requirements for onboard systems.
• Lead root-cause investigations for complex integration issues, using data-driven techniques and principled experimentation, proactively creating test plans for new features and defining useful metrics for analyzing performance
• Mentor engineers across teams, raising the bar on technical judgment, design quality, and execution discipline without direct people management responsibilities.
• Improve and deliver reliable software through continuous integration, automated testing, and code reviews.
• Develop and oversight top-tier software engineers within a dynamic, fast-paced, and inclusive setting.
• Help define, build, and embody GM engineering culture and principles.

Skills

Motion planning

Optimal controls

Trajectory optimization

C++

Python

System design

Safety requirements

Data-driven testing

Education

Ph.D. in controls/optimization/path planning

M.S. in a related field

B.S. with strong work experience

Tools

ROS

Job description

General Motors seeks a highly skilled engineer to shape the autonomous vehicle software stack, owning roadmaps for dynamics and controls. You will design interfaces with perception, prediction, and planning, drive safety and performance, and lead best practices across teams.

You will guide a distributed engineering staff, implement CI/CD, automated tests, and robust verification for roadway-ready features, including Active Safety and Driver Assistance.