General Motors
Senior Systems Engineer - Autonomy Behavior
$153K–$234K
Sunnyvale, California, United States of America · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 3, 2026
- Experience
- 5 or more years of professional experience in systems engineering, autonomous vehicles, robotics, simulation, or safety-critical validation.
- Education
- Master’s degree in systems engineering, mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, robotics, or a related field.
About the job
Defines and validates autonomous-vehicle behavior from requirements through simulation and road-data evaluation, supporting release and launch decisions.
What you'll do
- Own end-to-end validation for autonomous driving behaviors, from scoping and requirements to product launch.
- Evaluate behavior using simulation, road data, closed-course testing, and expert review across scenarios, conditions, software versions, and fleet configurations.
- Define metrics, test strategies, and acceptance criteria, and present behavior readiness to inform release and launch decisions.
What they ask for
- Master’s degree in a listed engineering, computer science, robotics, or related field.
- 5 or more years of professional experience in systems engineering, autonomous vehicles, robotics, simulation, or safety-critical validation.
- Proven experience evaluating autonomous vehicles in support of a commercial fleet launch.
- Experience designing or executing large-scale simulation-based evaluations; strong Python experience and exposure to agentic workflows.
Nice to have
- Experience with human benchmarking or counterfactual analysis in simulation.
- Familiarity with safety cases, hazard analysis, risk quantification, regulatory expectations, or large scenario libraries.
Pay
$153,200 to $234,100 USD base salary
Tools
Python
AI focus
Autonomous-vehicle behavior validation, including simulation-based evaluation and exposure to agentic workflows.
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