General Motors
Systems Engineering Manager - Autonomy Behavior
$189K–$290K
Sunnyvale, California, United States of America · Remote/Hybrid · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
- Experience
- 8 or more years; no stated alternatives.
- Education
- Master’s degree in systems engineering, mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, robotics, or a related field.
About the job
Leads a team defining, evaluating, and validating autonomous-vehicle behavior, connecting requirements and simulations to evidence for engineering, release, and launch decisions.
What you'll do
- Lead and develop autonomy behavior systems engineers, setting technical quality, execution, communication, and growth expectations.
- Set systems engineering and validation direction, linking requirements, coverage, simulation validity, metrics, acceptance criteria, and release evidence.
- Develop scalable behavior evaluation and simulation systems and align cross-functional partners on engineering, release, and launch recommendations.
What they ask for
- Master’s degree in a related field.
- 8 or more years of professional experience in systems engineering, autonomous vehicles, robotics, vehicle development, simulation, or safety-critical validation.
- Proven record evaluating autonomous vehicles for a commercial fleet, launch, supervised release, or other high-consequence product decision.
- Strong Python experience, systems engineering fundamentals, scaled simulation evaluation experience, and technical/team leadership experience.
Nice to have
- Human benchmarking for behavior and safety evaluation.
- Experience with hazard analysis, safety cases, risk quantification, regulatory compliance strategy, or validation lifecycles.
Pay
$189,300 - $290,000 (base salary)
Tools
Python
AI focus
Leads evaluation and validation of autonomous-vehicle behavior, including simulation and evidence supporting release and launch decisions.
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