Staff Software Engineer, Autonomy Evaluation

Overview

Staff Software Engineer for the Autonomy Evaluation team at General Motors, defining and leading evaluation strategy, architecture, and analytics for autonomous driving performance.

What you'll do

• Define strategy and architecture for metrics and analyses to evaluate autonomous driving software performance across the autonomy stack.
• Lead cross-functional efforts to embed evaluation into development workflows and release decisions.
• Develop statistical and ML methods, including ML introspection techniques, to quantify performance and detect regressions.
• Own and refine AV evaluation metrics and KPIs for readiness and safety decisions.
• Synthesize and present results and tradeoffs to stakeholders.
• Make insights available via interactive dashboards.

What you'll need

• 7+ years applied experience with robotics or autonomous systems software across vehicle subsystems from perception through planning/control.
• 3+ years leading evaluation of complex dynamic systems using numerical and ML approaches on large-scale time series data.
• Production Python proficiency in team environments.
• Strong ability to work in large C++ autonomy codebases.
• Proven cross-team technical leadership influencing system and architecture decisions.
• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in specified fields including Computer Science/Robotics/Mechanical/Aerospace/ML or related.

Details

• Work mode listed as Remote in the United States.