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We are looking for a highly motivated individual with excellent analytical skills to own end-to-end execution, improve evaluation methodologies, and communicate insights that establish confidence in the quality of our end-to-end ML stack.\nIn this position, you will work closely with AI/ML engineers, simulation engineers, systems engineers, and data partners to identify, analyze, monitor, and prioritize the signals used to assess performance. You will leverage simulation and on-road data to build scalable processes for evaluating coverage, metrics, uncertainty, and validation confidence.\nIf you are interested in having a major impact on accelerating validation confidence for ML-driven autonomy through creative problem solving, let’s chat!\nWhat you’ll be doing\nDefine AV evaluation and validation processes from initial concept through implementation, including test-framework requirements, scenario and test-suite design, coverage, metrics, and the evidence needed to assess confidence in system performance.\n\nDesign and implement scalable testing and simulation frameworks for test generation, execution, data collection, result aggregation, and reproducible analysis.\n\nProvide hands-on implementation of infrastructure and data solutions to assess confidence in AV performance using simulation and on-road data.\n\nDevelop and apply methods to evaluate simulation validity, sim-to-real correlation, and the predictive value of simulation results.\n\nProactively scope and identify metrics, sampling approaches, and analytical methods needed to improve evaluation workflows and close gaps in evidence.\n\nContribute to automated triage and root-cause analysis strategies for AV deficiencies, regressions, and uncertainty in an end-to-end stack.\n\nArticulate insights, summaries, limitations, and recommendations to engineers, technical leaders, and other stakeholders based on continuous analysis of AV performance.\n\nDefine and maintain scalable processes to identify, monitor, and improve evaluation KPIs and confidence measures.\n\nHelp connect continuous-improvement activities to the evidence needed to support safety, systems, and downstream readiness decisions.\n\nWhat you must have\nStrong Python programming skills, with experience building clear, maintainable analysis, evaluation, or testing tools.\n\nExperience designing or implementing testing, simulation, or evaluation frameworks for complex software/hardware or cyber-physical systems.\n\nExperience with GitHub, Jira, or equivalent tools.\n\nDemonstrated end-to-end ownership, from defining a problem through delivering and communicating the desired outcome.\n\nA track record of analytical and systems-engineering work involving complex software/hardware systems or ambiguous AI functions.\n\nExperience performing root-cause analysis and applying analytical methods to system or behavioral performance data.\n\nAbility to creatively solve problems with limited supervision, learn quickly, and operate effectively in a fast-paced environment.\n\nStrong cross-functional communication skills, including the ability to communicate data-driven findings to leadership.\n\nBachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree in engineering, physics, applied mathematics, statistics, data science, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.\n\nBonus points!\nExperience with autonomous vehicles, ADAS, robotics, or production-grade robotic systems.\n\nHands-on experience with simulation environments, scenario generation, large-scale test execution, or analysis of simulation results.\n\nExperience with statistical methods for product evaluation, risk assessment, sampling, or confidence analysis.\n\nExperience developing data-driven metrics, scorecards, coverage measures, or regression-detection methods.\n\nExperience with verification and validation, simulation-to-real-world correlation, test automation, or large-scale evaluation systems.\n\nPassion for understanding complex robotics and AI systems and turning their behavior into measurable evidence.\n\nCompensation: The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance with applicable state laws. The compensation may not be representative for positions located outside of New York, Colorado, California, or Washington.\n· The salary range for this role: is $153,200 to $234,100. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.\n· Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.\n· Benefits: GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs. Benefit options include medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance programs, employee assistance program, GM vehicle discounts and more\n\nAbout GM\nOur vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.\nWhy Join Us\nWe believe we all must make a choice every day - individually and collectively - to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.\nBenefits Overview\nFrom day one, we're looking out for your well-being-at work and at home-so you can focus on realizing your ambitions. Learn how GM supports a rewarding career that rewards you personally by visiting Total Rewards resources.\nNon-Discrimination and Equal Employment Opportunities (U.S.)\nGeneral Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of unlawful discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that providing an inclusive workplace creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers.\nAll employment decisions are made on a non-discriminatory basis without regard to sex, race, color, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, pregnancy or maternity status, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran or protected veteran, or any other similarly protected status in accordance with federal, state and local laws.\nWe encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications for each role and apply for any positions that match their skills and capabilities. Applicants in the recruitment process may be required, where applicable, to successfully complete a role-related assessment(s) and/or a pre-employment screening prior to beginning employment. 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