Safety Design Software Architect

General Motors

Safety Design Software Architect at GM focusing on system safety and software architecture for automotive solutions. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure compliance and safety standards.

Posted 7/23/2026full-timeMilford • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLeadWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in Software Architecture and Safety Systems, with a strong focus on safety-critical design, compliance with ISO26262 standards, and effective communication of technical requirements. Proficient in C/C++ programming, Simulink, and safety analysis methodologies to ensure robust system safety strategies.

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C/C++ ProgrammingISO26262 ComplianceSafety-Critical DesignSimulink and MATLAB ProficiencySoftware-in-the-Loop Simulation

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Hard Skills

Software ArchitectureControl Theory ApplicationAlgorithm DevelopmentSafety AnalysisDynamic System Modeling

Soft Skills

Technical TrainingKnowledge SharingMentoring

Tools & Technologies

SimulinkMATLABDOORsGITHIL Simulation

Industry Keywords

Automotive Safety Integrity Level (ASIL)Development Vehicle Usage Levels (DVUL)FMVSS StandardsCalibration ToolsOBDII Standards

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Develop the Solution Context and Intent at the Software level by defining requirements and communicating the solution vision.
Analyze technical trade-offs, determine the primary components and subsystems, identify the interfaces and collaborations between them, define Nonfunctional Requirements (NFRs), guide Enablers through the Program and Solution Kanban systems, and work with Product and Solution Management, System Safety, and Suppliers to help ensure the allocated System Safety requirements and strategy are met.
Provide technical training and establish effective mechanisms of knowledge sharing.
Lead high severity safety-related investigations and work with other Safety Design Software Architects to resolve safety issues.
Analyze the full control system and visualize what issues and faults can occur and build designs that mitigate those risks.
Participate with system safety engineering in planning and defining high-level design of the product solution; explore solution alternatives.
Operate within the business constraints when analyzing the impact of design decisions.
Architect the solution for scalability, maintainability, and testability.
Define subsystems and their interfaces, allocate responsibilities to sub systems, understand solution deployment and communicate requirements for interactions with the solution context.
Derive lower-level system requirements from the System Safety requirements for function or interfaces.
Support the ARTs during Planning and Implementation with technical guidance, review system architecture designs in all areas of ART planning.
Assist in Backlog refinements to identify safety critical features and functions.
Ensure proper prioritization of safety critical requirements.
Ensure adherence to Development Vehicle Usage Levels (DVUL) and Automotive Safety Integrity Level (ASIL) requirements and timelines.
Plan and develop the architectural runway for the SW Safety strategy.
Create enabler features, stories aligned to program and solution roadmap and safety cases.
Advocate for enabler requirements supporting the system safety strategy.
Provide and monitor the necessary adherence to appropriate design guidelines for safety critical software.
Support built in quality and continuous compliance.
Perform software safety analyses based on derived requirements allocated by system safety.
Establish system safety requirements generated by the above analysis or decomposed from the allocated System Safety requirements.
Define safety critical calibrations jointly with System Safety and Calibration Technical Specialist.
Participate in the definition of product development requirements.
Ensure proper completion of all necessary business records and documentation.
Participate and validate system demonstration adherence to system safety requirements.
Prioritize, along with other Safety Design System Architects, the scrum team’s backlog.
Define deliverables for scrum team development of system safety monitors.
Mentor software and controls engineers into becoming capable Safety System Architects.
Review system safety monitor designs and confirm overall quality.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, or related field of study
Seven (7) years of experience as a Software Architect, Software Engineer, Project Engineer, or related role
Five years of experience with: C/C++ Programming and auto-code generated from Simulink models; Applying the dynamic system modeling principles and control theories; Implementing safety-critical design feature including redundancy and fail-safe mechanisms; Software-in-the-Loop, Model-in-the-Loop, and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) Simulation; Algorithm development and calibration for Transmission controls; and ISO26262 and applicable FMVSS standards.
Two years of experience with: Calibration and rapid controller prototyping tools; Simulink, MATLAB, DOORs, and GIT environment(s), and plant modeling and analysis tools; OBDII standards related to transmission; and Major automotive subsystems.

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.