Survivability Strategist - GM Defense

General Motors•Milford Charter Township, MI

1d•$134,700 - $207,600•Remote

About The Position

GM Defense delivers integrated vehicles, power and propulsion, and autonomy and connectivity solutions for global defense, security, and government customers. By leveraging GM’s advanced commercial vehicle platforms, engineering expertise, and large-scale manufacturing, GM Defense rapidly adapts proven technologies into military-grade, mission-ready solutions that help customers improve mobility, readiness, and sustainment while managing cost and complexity. The Survivability Strategist is an individual contributor role responsible for defining the survivability strategy and roadmap for GM Defense in alignment with mission needs, customer expectations, and program objectives. This role determines the survivability capabilities, technical approaches, manufacturing strategies, and enabling workstreams required to build an enduring enterprise capability, including what work should be developed in-house, what should be outsourced, what partnerships should be established, and what design, material, manufacturing, and analysis standards are needed to support execution. The role leads the development of survivability concepts, requirements, trade studies, and integration recommendations to ensure survivability considerations are built into product architecture, design, and validation from the outset.

Requirements

BSE, BS in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Systems Engineering, or equivalent experience
10+ years professional experience in survivability-related engineering, strategy development, product integration, or equivalent technical roles
Demonstrates effective interpersonal and communication skills to collaborate successfully with internal stakeholders, customers, suppliers, and external partners
Strong understanding of survivability-related engineering principles, including design tradeoffs, material behavior, manufacturing strategies, and analysis methods
Proven ability to define technical strategy and roadmap, including decisions on in-house development, outsourcing, partnerships, and enterprise capability build-out
Demonstrated ability to lead trade studies that balance survivability, weight, performance, cost, manufacturability, and program timing
Strong analytical ability to identify vulnerabilities, assess technical risk, and develop design, material, manufacturing, and analysis standards to support execution
Demonstrated technical and professional skills in survivability-related product development, technical integration, and cross-functional decision-making
Ability to translate mission and threat-based needs into clear survivability requirements, practical engineering guidance, and executable technical recommendations
Candidate must be a U.S. Person (U.S. citizen, U.S. permanent resident, asylee or refugee).

Responsibilities

Define the survivability strategy and roadmap for GM Defense in support of mission requirements, threat environments, customer expectations, and long-term business objectives
Determine which survivability capabilities, analyses, tools, and technical workstreams should be developed in-house versus outsourced
Identify, evaluate, and help establish external partnerships needed to build and scale survivability capability
Develop and institutionalize survivability design best practices, material guidelines, manufacturing methods, and technical standards for use across programs
Guide development of survivability-related requirements, design criteria, technical recommendations, and integration approaches across the product
Lead trade studies to balance survivability, weight, performance, cost, manufacturability, and program timing
Support development of survivability analysis methods, assessment approaches, and validation strategies to strengthen technical decision-making
Work cross-functionally with engineering, manufacturing, integration, validation, supply chain, and program teams to embed survivability into product development
Support identification and assessment of vulnerabilities, failure modes, and integration risks related to survivability
Serve as a technical point of contact for survivability strategy and implementation with internal stakeholders, partners, and customers as needed