Senior Software Engineer, Autonomy Evaluation
Job Description
General Motors is a global leader in advanced driverassistance. WithSuper Cruisehands-free technology in more than 500,000 Super Cruise–equipped vehicles on the road and over 700 million hands-free miles driven, GM is proving that automation can be trusted, intuitive, and helpful. GM has the global reach to bringcutting-edgeadvances to everyday drivers atunprecedentedscale. Join us to help deliver the next generation of safe and delightful personal autonomous vehicle experiences.
About the Organization
TheEvaluation teambuilds and evolves the evaluation ecosystem that powers the development and scaling of GM’s autonomous driving technology. We develop metrics, automated workflows, and analysis approaches that enable data-driven decisions across AV development and verification. Partnering with Autonomy, Simulation, Systems, and Safety teams, we act as system-level integrators and arbiters of end-to-end AV quality.
We own large-scale test scenario libraries, continuous evaluation pipelines, and critical risk assessment and release-gating components, treating road testing, data mining, training, and metrics as first-class use cases in a unified analytics framework. By joining this team, you will help shape GM’s core evaluation platforms, turn system-level results into clear feedback for engineering and leadership, and help accelerate validated AV deployment at scale.
WhatYou’llDo (Responsibilities)
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Architect and implement metrics and analyses to introspect autonomous driving software performance atinterfaces across the autonomy stack; partner closely with autonomy developers and systems engineers.
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Design and implement analysis algorithms that summarize, aggregate, and cluster metrics produced by simulations and on-road runs of the autonomy stack.
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Propose and develop new statistical and ML methods to quantify performance andidentifypatterns of system and subsystem behavior across diverse scenes and operational domains.
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Develop and apply methods to introspect the operation of ML components in the autonomy stack, including evaluation ofperception, prediction, and planning models.
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Build andmaintainautonomyevaluationdashboards and interactive reports that provide clear, explainable insights (e.g., trend analysis, drift detection, scenario coverage) for development, verification, and leadership.
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Leverage vision-language models (VLMs) and large language models (LLMs), whereappropriate, to classify autonomy performance,identifycritical scenarios, and prioritize validation efforts, integrating human-in-the-loop review where needed.
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Maintain a high technical standard through thoughtful system design, code reviews, testing, observability, and adherence to software-engineering best practices.
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Interface with cross-organizational partners to articulate requirements, resolve handoff issues, and share best practices around evaluation, metrics, and experiment design.
Your Skills & Abilities(Required Qualifications)
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5+ years of applied experience with robotics or autonomous systems software (e.g., sensors,perception, prediction, planning, or control), data analysis, ML evaluation, or autonomy analytics.
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3+ years evaluating dynamic systems using numerical and/or ML approaches, including time-series data, state derivatives, dynamics, and interconnected subsystems.
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StrongproficiencydevelopingPythonin production team environments, including testing, performance, and code review.
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ProficiencywithPandas, NumPy, SciPy,and plotting/visualization libraries for large-scale data analysis and reporting.
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Comfort working withC++codebases, including reading, debugging, and instrumenting core algorithms.
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A strong curiosity to question anomalous data and systematically root-cause discrepancies.
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Demonstrated technical leadership, including driving architectural decisions, influencing cross-team designs, and owning complex features or services end-to-end.
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