General Motors

Staff Engineer, AV Safety Risk Management & Assurance

General Motors

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Warren • California • Missouri • United States

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Lead

About the role

  • Evolve the AV Safety Risk Management (SRM) framework and documentation to reflect modern, scalable, and technology‑driven safety practices.
  • Define and enhance structured approaches for AV hazard identification, taxonomy management, and SRM decision‑making grounded in consistency and organizational alignment.
  • Introduce and champion the use of emerging analytical models, data‑driven insights, and modern toolsets to deepen understanding of the AV risk profile.
  • Strengthen alignment of SRM activities with cross‑functional partners (e.g., Software Validation, Functional Safety, Operational Safety) to drive integrated safety decisions.
  • Establish governance and strategic direction for how hazard analyses and safety risk assessments are applied across AV programs.
  • Develop strategies for AV hazard risk register visibility and reporting to leadership, enabling proactive risk posture management.
  • Shape training and communication strategies that elevate organizational maturity in SRM concepts, tools, and decision‑making.
  • Guide the long‑term roadmap for SRM tools and digital capabilities, emphasizing efficiency, traceability, and advanced modeling.
  • Lead execution of structured hazard identification activities and apply SRM methods (SRAs, ERCs) using modern analytical approaches.
  • Maintain, monitor, and report on the hazard risk register, ensuring accuracy, traceability, and meaningful decision‑support outputs.
  • Build, refine, and support SRM tools that integrate data, enable automation, and improve the fidelity of safety insights.
  • Apply and scale the hazard taxonomy across systems, tools, and analyses to support consistent organizational use.
  • Perform high‑quality SRM analyses and ensure the technical accuracy of all products generated through SRM processes.
  • Use advanced modeling techniques and the latest data technologies to detect patterns, quantify risk exposure, and support safety decision‑making for AV products.
  • Collaborate with technical partners to embed SRM elements into upstream and downstream development workflows (e.g., validation, effectiveness, operations).
  • Develop SRM guidance materials, training modules, examples, and technical communication artifacts to support adoption and capability growth.

Requirements

  • Proven experience of 10+ years in risk management, actuarial services, quantitative analyses and/or similar in a safety critical industry: Autonomy, Automotive, Nuclear, Aviation or similar
  • Proven experience of 3+ years implementing SMS and/or programs which support SMS within a software development and operational organization
  • Experience providing independent assessment of quantitative tools and metrics for hazard triaging, risk assessment, validation, and continual monitoring operational performance
  • Experience leading sophisticated, fast-paced programs with broad scope and enterprise level visibility spanning multiple teams and organizations, often with conflicting priorities and schedules
  • Thrive in ambiguity, crafting simplicity and order
  • Effective at building consensus across different functions
  • Self-motivation and enthusiasm to lead complex programs, develop teams, promote collaboration, encourage standard methodologies, and constantly improve.
Benefits
  • From day one, we're looking out for your well-being–at work and at home–so you can focus on realizing your ambitions.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
risk managementhazard identificationdata-driven insightsanalytical modelssafety risk assessmentshazard taxonomyquantitative analysesadvanced modeling techniquesSRM methodsautomation
Soft Skills
leadershipcollaborationconsensus buildingself-motivationeffective communicationorganizational alignmentstrategic directionproblem-solvingadaptabilityteam development
Certifications
SMS certification