General Motors · 2 days ago
Principal AV Behavior and AI Safety Engineer: Technical Lead
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$228K/yr - $350K/yr
7+ years expGeneral Motors is committed to leading the change towards a world with zero crashes, emissions, and congestion. The AV Behavior and AI Safety Technical Lead will guide the development and implementation of safety strategies for AI-driven autonomous vehicle behaviors, ensuring compliance with industry standards and best practices.
AutomotiveElectric VehicleInformation ServicesManufacturingTransportation
Responsibilities
Referencing ISO 8800, ISO 21448 and AV industry best practices, develop the strategy for ensuring safe AI/ML and autonomous system development, deployment and maintenance
Work with software, data science and systems engineering teams to ensure GM safely trains new machine learning models to enable autonomous systems
Ensure continuity of safety as we enhance existing machine learning models to increase performance
Set the safety standard for how we prototype, test and deploy new AI solutions, including Generative AI
Set the strategy for testing and validation of data sets and develop an assurance plan
Set the strategy for how we systematically break down operational design domain components and driving behavior components and how these are validated in aggregate and on a per behavior level
Work with data science, systems engineering and software teams to set the strategy for how we establish safety launch targets across vehicle behaviors and in aggregate
Setup an assurance process to validate launch targets have been achieved
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
7+ years of experience in machine learning, engineering, data science, or a related field
7+ years in autonomous vehicle or robotics development or related field
Extensive Experience in the following: Machine Learning & AI Safety: ISO 8800, ISO 21448 and other applicable industry standards and best practices for autonomous vehicles, aerospace and/or robotics
Validation of AI Driven Autonomous Systems: Setting the strategy for E2E validation using techniques appropriate to validate AI models
Programming & Frameworks: Python, R, Java, PySpark, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, LangChain, SQL
Machine Learning & AI: Large Language Models (LLMs), Generative AI, RAG, Deep learning, Reinforcement Learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), SVM, XGBoost, Random Forest, Decision Trees, Clustering
Cloud & Big Data Platforms: (Preferred Microsoft Azure (Data Lake, Machine Learning, Databricks)), Nice to Have (AWS (S3, SageMaker, Bedrock) or Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery, Dataflow, AI Platform))
Deployment & MLOps: MLflow, Model Monitoring & Versioning, Docker & Kubernetes, GitHub, Jira
Data Analysis & Visualization: Tableau, PowerBI, Pandas, NumPy
Proven track record providing technical safety leadership in AI/ML and AV development
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment
Strong problem-solving mindset and a proactive attitude towards learning and self-improvement
Preferred
Masters Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field
Extensive NLP solutions from business problem statement to deployment and ongoing optimization
Expertise with Large Language Models solutions from business problem statement to cloud deployment that have provided significant incremental business value
Experience with generative AI solutions that you have developed and deployed into a production environment that have provided significant incremental business value
Experience leading a team of data scientists to exceed customer expectations
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
Health Savings Account
Flexible Spending Accounts
Retirement savings plan
Sickness and accident benefits
Life insurance
Paid vacation & holidays
Tuition assistance programs
Employee assistance program
GM vehicle discounts
Company
General Motors
General Motors is an automotive company that designs, produces, markets, and distributes vehicles and vehicle parts.
10001+ employees
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2025-05-05Post Ipo Debt· $2B
2024-10-31Grant· $8M
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Chair and Chief Executive Officer
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