Senior Software Systems Engineer, Autonomous Systems Validation Confidence

General Motors•Sunnyvale, CA

1d•$153,200 - $234,100

About The Position

We are looking for a Senior Software Systems Engineer to develop the methods, software, and quantitative evidence used to measure confidence in autonomous vehicle validation results. This role sits at the intersection of software engineering, systems engineering, simulation, statistics, and data science. You will help answer questions such as: Do our tests provide sufficient coverage? Are our metrics meaningful? Can simulation results predict real-world performance? How confidently can we detect a regression or support a release decision? This role is a strong fit for someone who has experience with both programming and physical or cyber-physical systems such as autonomous vehicles, robotics, aerospace, industrial systems, or other complex engineered products.

Requirements

Strong programming skills in Python, C++, or a comparable language, with experience writing clear, testable, maintainable code.
Experience applying engineering or quantitative methods to a physical, cyber-physical, or other real-world system.
Ability to turn ambiguous validation questions into measurable requirements, metrics, experiments, or decision criteria, and investigate complex behavior using incomplete or noisy data.
Ability to collaborate across disciplines and explain technical results with appropriate precision and context.
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, physics, applied mathematics, statistics, data science, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice To Haves

Experience with autonomous vehicles, robotics, simulation, aerospace, industrial automation, or another safety-relevant engineered system.
Experience with verification and validation, test automation, scenario generation, requirements-based testing, or performance benchmarking.
Experience designing coverage measures, scorecards, confidence metrics, or regression-detection methods.
Experience with simulation-to-real-world correlation, predictive-validity analysis, or comparing results across test environments.
Applied knowledge of probability, statistics, experimental design, or data analysis, including hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, power analysis, sampling strategies, or precision and recall.
Experience with data pipelines, SQL, scientific computing, or large-scale test execution.
Graduate degree or equivalent depth in engineering, physics, applied mathematics, statistics, data science, or a related field.

Responsibilities

Develop scalable frameworks and methods for measuring validation confidence across simulation and real-world testing, including coverage, sampling, metric quality, statistical significance, and regression detection.
Build tools and data pipelines for test execution, analysis, metric computation, scorecards, and confidence reporting.
Evaluate simulation validity and road predictive power using measurable, defensible criteria; analyze test and vehicle data to identify uncertainty, pipeline issues, regressions, and gaps in evidence.
Translate validation claims and release questions into requirements, experiments, test suites, metrics, and quantitative decision criteria.
Improve the throughput, repeatability, and quality of validation workflows.
Partner with simulation, safety, autonomy, and release teams, and communicate conclusions, assumptions, limitations, and recommendations clearly.