Staff Software Engineer, Autonomy Evaluation & Metrics

General Motors Corporation; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 185,000 - 284,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing benefits

Hybrid work model

Company vehicle program

Relocation assistance

Job summary

General Motors in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Autonomy Evaluation team. You will define metrics and architectures to evaluate autonomous driving software across the autonomy stack and lead cross-functional efforts with teams in autonomy, simulation, systems, and data.

You will invent ML methods, own AV evaluation metrics, and present insights via dashboards, enabling data-driven release decisions.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of robotics or autonomous systems software experience.
• 3+ years leading evaluation of complex dynamic systems using numerical and ML approaches on large-scale time series data.
• Proficiency developing Python in production environments; strong ability to work in large C++ autonomy codebases.
• PhD, Masters, or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering, Machine Learning, or a related field.
• Experience leading cross-team strategies and influencing architecture decisions.

Responsibilities

• Define the strategy and architecture for metrics and analyses to evaluate autonomous driving software performance across the autonomy stack.
• Lead cross-functional efforts with autonomy, systems engineering, simulation, and data teams to embed evaluation into development workflows and release decisions.
• Invent and drive new statistical and ML methods, and ML introspection techniques, to quantify performance, detect regressions, and reveal patterns of system behavior at scale.
• Own and refine key AV evaluation metrics and KPIs; synthesize and present results and tradeoffs to stakeholders; enable dashboards for partner teams.

Skills

Python

C++

ML

Statistics

Cross-functional leadership

ROS

SQL

Time series analysis

Education

PhD/Masters/Bachelors in CS/Robotics/ME/AE/ML

Tools

PyTorch

Pandas/NumPy/SciPy

ROS

Job description

General Motors in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Autonomy Evaluation team. You will define metrics and architectures to evaluate autonomous driving software across the autonomy stack and lead cross-functional efforts with teams in autonomy, simulation, systems, and data.

You will invent ML methods, own AV evaluation metrics, and present insights via dashboards, enabling data-driven release decisions.