# Principal Engineer, Autonomy Evaluation

Job Description About the Organization Join the team building GM's next generation of autonomous driving, starting with eyes-off driving on the highway and growing toward point-to-point autonomy. The goal is autonomous capability that is safe, reliable, comfortable, and scalable across GM's vehicle portfolio. Autonomy Evaluation helps the AV program figure out where the driver still falls short. Every mile our vehicles drive, on the road or in simulation, carries that signal. We turn it into answers: what is limiting the system, how big each problem is, and what fixing it is worth. Those answers steer what GM's autonomy teams build next and inform software release decisions. We partner closely with Autonomy, Simulation, Systems, Safety, and Software Validation. The Role As a Principal Engineer in Autonomy Evaluation, you will own how we evaluate the autonomous driver, from overall driving behavior down to individual subsystems. You'll take on questions like: How do we measure whether the car drives well, not just safely? When a behavior goes wrong, which subsystem caused it, and how much does that error matter on the road? How do we find the failures we don't know to look for? You'

- **Id**: 4005609
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/general-motors-principal-engineer-autonomy-evaluation>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Sunnyvale, United States, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T03:03:27Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8684
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Life insurance, Retirement plans
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Automotive Manufacturing

## Company

- **Id**: 1705
- **Name**: General Motors
- **Domain**: gm.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/general-motors-europe>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 91
- **Open postings**: 81
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.531
- **Repost share**: 0.037
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 13
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 250000
- **Max**: 384600
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 384600

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Interpretability** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Time Series** — Optional: no
- **VLM** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T06:56:45Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 795 · green card filings: 1; Filings 12m: 795

## Liveness

- **Score**: 60
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.602
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 13
- **Reasons**: conf:2, stale_co, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 384600
- **Is top pay**: yes

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