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Operations Safety Engineering Lead – Autonomous Vehicle Development
General Motors
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $157,100 - $241,500 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Provide end-to-end safety leadership for AV operations, covering manual, supervised, and autonomous driving modes.
- Drive the development of operational safety frameworks, processes, and best practices across the AV lifecycle.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams—including software, hardware, systems engineering, validation, operations, and product management—to integrate safety considerations into every stage of development and deployment.
- Lead risk assessment, incident analysis, and safety decision-making forums to ensure robust and transparent processes.
- Establish metrics, monitoring systems, and reporting mechanisms for operational safety performance pre- and post-launch.
- Drive continuous improvement cycles by leveraging field data, performance metrics, and lessons learned.
- Represent GM in internal and external forums as a trusted voice of safety leadership, setting a vision that aligns technical rigor with operational excellence.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, Human Factors, or a related technical field
- 8+ years of experience in safety-critical systems engineering, operations safety, or related technical leadership roles.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams in high-stakes environments requiring sound judgment and decisive action.
- Demonstrated expertise in safety assessment, hazard analysis, or safety case development.
- Strong understanding of vehicle systems, autonomy technology, and operational processes.
- Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence at all levels of the organization.
- Track record of developing and implementing safety frameworks in complex technical domains.
Benefits
- GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs.
- Benefit options include 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 and more.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
safety assessmenthazard analysissafety case developmentoperational safety frameworksperformance metricsrisk assessmentincident analysisautonomy technologyvehicle systemscontinuous improvement
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationcollaborationinfluencejudgmentdecisive actioncross-functional team leadershiporganizational skillsproblem-solvingvision setting
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in EngineeringBachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in PhysicsBachelor’s degree in Human Factors
