General Motors · 10 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer, Autonomy Evaluation
Sunnyvale, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$145K/yr - $221K/yr
5+ years expGeneral Motors is a global leader in advanced driver assistance, and they are seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Autonomy Evaluation team. This role involves architecting and implementing metrics for autonomous driving software performance and developing new statistical and ML methods to enhance system evaluations.
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Responsibilities
Architect and implement metrics and analyses to introspect autonomous driving software performance at subsystem interfaces across the autonomy stack; work closely with autonomy developers and system engineers
Propose and develop new statistical and ML methods to quantify performance and identify patterns of system and subsystem behavior across diverse scenes and operational domains
Develop and apply methods to introspect the operation of ML components in the autonomy stack
Create informative, interactive results and dashboards that provide rapid insight for development and verification, and are routinely used by partner teams
Qualification
Required
5+ years applied experience with robotics or autonomous systems software, from sensors and perception through planning and control of the vehicle
3+ years evaluating dynamic systems using numerical and ML approaches, including time series data, state derivatives, dynamics, and interconnected subsystems
Proficiency developing Python in production team environments
Comfort working with C++ codebases, including reading and instrumenting core algorithms
Demonstrated technical leadership, including driving decisions and influencing architecture
PhD, Master's, or Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering, Machine Learning, or a related field
Preferred
Experience in autonomous driving or other field robotics; visualizing and interpreting the results of simulation and field experiments
Familiarity with statistical modeling, experimental design, and hypothesis testing for autonomy evaluation; command of Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, and visualization libraries
Proficiency in C++ and SQL
Experience working with ROS or other IPC / robotics stacks, log pipelines, and large-scale experiment databases
Prior development with computational geometry, linear algebra, PyTorch, and machine learning
Background in modeling agent interaction and experience contributing to release gating for autonomy systems
Benefits
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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.
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US Department of Energy
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2024-10-31Grant· $8M
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