Staff Sensor Systems Engineer
Job Summary
General Motors is seeking a Staff Systems Engineer to lead the architecture and integration of autonomous sensing systems, including camera, radar, and lidar. This role involves defining system-level requirements, driving cross-domain technical alignment, and ensuring sensing solutions are robust and production-ready. The candidate will work at the intersection of embedded software, vehicle platforms, and autonomy software to address complex engineering challenges.
Responsibilities
- Lead autonomous sensor system trade studies and architecture.
- Decompose system requirements for camera, radar, and lidar.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams (perception, software, hardware).
- Ensure compliance with safety and regulatory standards.
Required Skills
- 10+ years in systems engineering/integration.
- Expertise in sensor modalities (Camera/Radar/Lidar).
- Proficiency in Matlab/Python for analysis.
- Strong technical leadership and requirements management.
Job Details
### Position Overview
General Motors is developing hands-off and eyes-off autonomous driving systems intended for broad deployment across consumer vehicles. This role focuses on system-level decisions at the intersection of sensors, embedded software, vehicle platforms, and autonomy software, ensuring that sensing solutions are technically sound, aligned with product intent, and executable in production.
### Key Responsibilities
- Lead system-level trade studies, define sensor systems spanning camera, radar, and lidar, and work closely with perception, platform software, and vehicle integration teams.
- Lead system-level trades, requirement decomposition, definition, and integration of autonomous sensor systems.
- Provide detailed technical analysis from component level to system for autonomous vehicle sensing functions across performance, latency, data integrity, synchronization, and hardware/software interaction.
- Translate autonomy and product intent into system architectures, functional decompositions, and requirements.
- Collaborate with software platform, vehicle integration, hardware, perception, and validation teams to manage complex interdependencies.
- Ensure system designs meet safety, regulatory, quality, and performance requirements relevant to autonomous vehicle operation.
- Drive continuous improvement in sensing system performance, robustness, diagnostics, integration, and cost.
- Clearly document technical decisions, trade-offs, and deliverables.
### Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Systems, Electrical, Software, Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
- 10+ years of experience in systems engineering, system integration, or hardware-intensive product development.
- Experience working with sensing systems (camera, radar, lidar) and their integration into vehicles.
- Experience leading system architecture, integration, and cross-domain technical initiatives.
- Strong expertise in requirements development, interface definition, integration, and validation.
- Technical depth in signal processing, link analysis, or ML across at least one relevant sensing modality.
- Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in ambiguous problem spaces.
- Proficiency with Matlab, Python, or other languages for data analysis and tool development.
### Preferred Qualifications
- Master's degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline.
- Experience with L4 autonomous vehicle programs or advanced remote sensing platforms.
- Experience developing, debugging, or integrating embedded or systems-level software.
- Significant experience with automotive autonomy-focused SPAD lidars and/or imaging radars.
- Experience with requirements management tools such as JAMA or DNG.
- Knowledge of safety-critical system development or functional safety concepts.
- Experience with system/component validation, including vehicle testing, HIL/SIL, simulation, and large-scale data analysis.