General Motors
Principal Systems Engineer – AV Sensor Design
$239K–$366K
Sunnyvale, California, United States of America +3 · Remote/Hybrid · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Location
- Sunnyvale, California, United States of America
Remote - Washington
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Warren, Michigan, United States of America - Experience
- 13+ years; the majority of experience must be concentrated in lidars.
- Education
- Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Applied Physics or related field.
About the job
Leads lidar technical strategy and development for autonomous vehicle sensing systems, from system-level design and evaluation through production integration.
What you'll do
- Own lidar technical strategy and define performance requirements for current and future autonomy sensing suites.
- Lead trade studies and evaluate prototype and production data to improve performance, cost, and integration.
- Partner with perception, vehicle, production, and vendor teams to realize lidar technology in production designs.
What they ask for
- Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Applied Physics or related field.
- 13+ years of experience in remote sensing, lidar development, photonic system development or related, with a majority concentrated in lidars.
- Recognized lidar authority with decision-making authority on technical direction of lidar technology development.
- Direct experience developing lidar hardware and signal processing, calibration methodology, and data consumption or analysis.
Nice to have
- PhD in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Applied Physics or related field.
- Patents, publications, or recognized industry contributions in lidar or electro-optical sensing.
Pay
238,700 to 365,700 USD base salary
Tools
lidar, SPAD lidars, signal processing, simulation models, lidar perception models, sensor fusion, ML, extrinsic calibration
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