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Remote: This role is based remotely but if you live within a 50-mile radius of [Austin, Detroit, Warren, Milford, Sunnyvale, CA], you are expected to report to that location three times per week, at minimum.\nThe Role\nAs a Manager of Autonomy Behavior Systems Engineering, you will lead a team responsible for how autonomous vehicle behavior is specified, evaluated, and supported by evidence. You will set technical direction while creating the conditions for engineers to do their best work across behavior, software, simulation, safety, legal, product, and operations.\nYou will bring deep experience evaluating autonomous vehicles in commercial fleets and understand the difference between a test that produces a result and a validation system people can trust. You will help define the systems engineering approach, connect requirements to simulation and release evidence, and ensure the team delivers methods and products that support developers, release decisions, and launch decisions.\nWhat You’ll Do\nLead and develop a team of autonomy behavior systems engineers, setting expectations for technical quality, execution, communication, and growth.\n\nSet the systems engineering and validation direction for major capabilities and cross-cutting behaviors, connecting requirements, coverage, simulation validity, metrics, acceptance criteria, and release evidence.\n\nGuide the development of scalable behavior evaluation and simulation systems across synthetic tests, road data, and counterfactual references, including scenario sourcing, orchestration, data quality, and reproducibility.\n\nPartner across Engineering, Safety, Legal, Product, and Operations to resolve ambiguity, build alignment, and communicate clear recommendations for engineering, release, and launch decisions.\n\nYour Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)\nMaster’s degree in systems engineering, mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, robotics, or a related field.\n\n8 or more years of professional experience in systems engineering, autonomous vehicles, robotics, vehicle development, simulation, or safety-critical validation.\n\nA proven record of evaluating autonomous vehicles for a commercial fleet, launch, supervised release, or other high-consequence product decision.\n\nDeep systems engineering fundamentals, including architecture and decomposition, use-case and scene modeling, requirements strategy, interface definition, verification and validation planning, and traceability.\n\nProfessional experience defining or leading simulation evaluation at scale, including the trade-offs between coverage, confidence, runtime, cost, and simulation validity.\n\nStrong Python experience. You should be comfortable reviewing production-quality analysis or validation software and understanding how tools and data pipelines support engineering decisions.\n\nStrong communication skills and the ability to create alignment among teams with different goals, terminology, and technical perspectives.\n\nDemonstrated stakeholder management and technical leadership across organizational boundaries. You have led work through influence, not only through formal authority.\n\nExperience as a Tech Lead, Technical Lead Manager, or people manager responsible for delivering complex technical work through a team.\n\nA track record of developing engineers, giving clear feedback, supporting career growth, and building an inclusive, accountable team culture.\n\nWhat Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred\nQualifications)\nHuman benchmarking for behavior and safety evaluation, including attentive human benchmark construction, human percentile methods, expert review, and the limits of human references.\n\nExperience with hazard analysis, including structured hazard analysis, scenario-based hazard analysis, failure analysis, or similar methods.\n\nExperience building or using a safety case, writing or reviewing safety claims, and determining what validation evidence is needed to support those claims.\n\nExperience with risk quantification, risk acceptance, severity and exposure reasoning, risk budgets, and mitigation decisions.\n\nExperience turning legal or regulatory expectations into a defensible compliance strategy with requirements, metrics, test coverage, and documented claims.\n\nExperience designing validation lifecycles that connect scope definition, requirements, hazard analysis, coverage planning, test generation, scorecards, release decisions, and continuous monitoring.\n\nExperience hiring, organizing, and prioritizing a technical team through changing product and program needs.\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 the California Bay Area.\nThe salary range for this role is ($189,300 - $290,000). The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.\n\nBonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.\n\nCompany Vehicle: Upon successful completion of a motor vehicle report review, you will be eligible to participate in a company vehicle evaluation program, through which you will be assigned a General Motors vehicle to drive and evaluate. Note: program participants are required to purchase/lease a qualifying GM vehicle every four years unless one of a limited number of exceptions applies.\nThis Job may be eligible for relocation benefits.\n\nThis role is categorized as hybrid. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location at least 3 times a week {or other frequency dictated by their manager}.\n\nThe selected candidate will be required to travel About GMOur 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. To learn more, visit How we Hire.\nAccommodations\nGeneral Motors offers opportunities to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email us or call us at 1-800-865-7580. 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