Senior Systems Engineer – Occupant Positioning Mechatronics

General Motors

Lead systems engineering for occupant positioning features in vehicles, collaborating with software and hardware teams at General Motors. Define requirements, specifications, and validate mechatronic systems for enhanced vehicle functionality.

Posted 7/8/2026full-timeWarren • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own end-to-end system requirements for occupant positioning and related mechatronic features across the vehicle.
Define and maintain system, feature, and interface specifications for occupant positioning functions, including seat positioning, memory features, user-adjustable comfort and wellness functions, and other customer-facing vehicle behaviors.
Develop functional requirements, behavioral requirements, API requirements and specifications, performance targets, use cases, state behaviors, and acceptance criteria for software-defined vehicle architectures.
Define display-related feature behavior, user interactions, and system responses for occupant positioning functions accessed through infotainment and HMI interfaces, and support API specification and design activities across embedded applications, infotainment software, middleware, vehicle services, and compute-oriented systems.
Define interactions between software applications, controllers, sensors, actuators, vehicle services, ECUs, and display interfaces, and lead feature decomposition and requirements allocation across software, hardware, mechatronic subsystems, compute platform, and vehicle system boundaries.
Create and maintain SysML/UML models, interface definitions, and requirements documentation to support architecture clarity, MBSE practices, and traceability, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to align system behavior and feature expectations across vehicle programs.
Support architecture reviews, issue investigation, triage, root cause analysis, and defect resolution throughout development and testing.
Partner with validation teams to define test strategies, test cases, continuous testing approaches, and feature acceptance criteria, including validation of display-driven feature interactions.
Support program milestones, readiness reviews, vehicle integration, testing, and launch activities to ensure successful production readiness.
Support continuous improvement activities that enhance system and feature robustness, functional performance, and customer experience quality.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, or a related field.
5+ years of automotive Systems Engineering experience.
Experience with mechatronic systems, body electronics, occupant systems, seating systems, infotainment-integrated features, or related vehicle feature domains.
Strong experience writing system requirements, interface specifications, API specifications, use cases, and acceptance criteria.
Strong knowledge of systems architecture, software and hardware integration, embedded software development, and testing methodologies.
Understanding of vehicle communication architectures, including CAN, CAN FD, Automotive Ethernet, diagnostics, and ECU interaction models.
Experience working cross-functionally with software, hardware, integration, validation, infotainment, UX/HMI, and platform teams in Agile or SAFe development environments.
Working knowledge of software programming concepts and the ability to read, analyze, and support debugging of software implementations in embedded or infotainment-connected environments.
Experience defining customer-facing system behavior for display-based or HMI-driven vehicle functions.
Experience with requirements management tools such as IBM DOORS/DNG, Jira, or similar tools.
Experience with SysML, UML, Rhapsody, or similar system modeling tools.
Understanding of software-defined vehicle architectures, feature decomposition, system traceability, and service-oriented integration concepts.
Familiarity with CI/CD automation and continuous testing strategies.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and technical collaboration skills.

Benefits

Comp & perks

From day one, we're looking out for your well-being–at work and at home–so you can focus on realizing your ambitions.

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Hard Skills & Tools

System Requirements WritingInterface SpecificationsEmbedded Software DevelopmentTesting MethodologiesFeature DecompositionSoftware-Defined Vehicle ArchitecturesRequirements Management ToolsDebugging Software ImplementationsContinuous Testing StrategiesPerformance Targets

Soft Skills

Analytical SkillsProblem-SolvingCommunicationTechnical Collaboration