About GM Defense

GM Defense (GMD) continues a 100-year legacy of designing, validating, and manufacturing vehicles and equipment in support of defense and other government customers. Within GM Defense, the recently created Autonomous Driving and Robotics group is charged with adapting, integrating, and enhancing GM's automated driving capabilities to the needs of GM Defense customers.

Job Description

We are seeking a highly motivated & dynamic engineer with demonstrated Autonomy and/or Robotics knowledge to be in the forefront of expanding GM's automated driving offerings to new realms relevant to GM Defense. The scope of work includes expanding GM's automated driving technology with autonomous follower, teleoperation, and off-road autonomous driving capability to meet civilian, military and other government agency needs.

You will get to work with development vehicles, simulators, state-of-the-art sensors, and software, while adapting and enhancing solutions for specialized vehicles.

What You'll Do: (Responsibilities):

• Develop requirements, use cases, and performance evaluation metrics for Autonomous Vehicle (AV) systems
• Develop and enhance algorithms for perception, sensor fusion, localization, situation awareness, path planning and vehicle motion control for automated driving
• Interface, collaborate, and partner with GM organizations to leverage existing capabilities and resources (Software Defined Vehicle, Super Cruise, Advanced Development, R&D, etc.)
• Adapt, enhance, integrate, and test software and hardware for automated vehicles
• Create software and hardware properties to demonstrate GMD autonomy and robotics solutions
• Follow agile/scrum software development and Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery processes as needed
• Identify and organize issues, interpret strategies, and effectively communicate to team members and management to facilitate timely decisions

Additional Description

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications):

• Minimum of 4 years relevant, full-time work experience in design, development, or research engineering Including 2+ years automated driving and/or robotics development experience as follow:
  • Experience developing and integrating robotic applications required.
  • Programming knowledge required: C++, Python and/or Matlab/Simulink
• Bachelor of Science degree in electrical, mechanical, aerospace or systems engineering, computer science, physics, mathematics, or similar area of focus is required
• Strong software development skills for safety critical, real-time applications
• Demonstrated ability to identify issues early and drive timely resolution
• Demonstrated ability to develop relationships and work cross-functionally
• Strong communication and presentation skills

What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

• Master's degree or PhD preferred (EE, ME, AE, Systems, Computer Science, Physics, Math or similar area of focus)
• Knowledge of perception (e.g., object detection, and tracking), sensor fusion (e.g., Kalman filter, particle filter), localization (e.g., SLAM), situation assessment, path planning or vehicle motion control algorithms
• Preferred experience developing automated driving or active safety features and integrating them into vehicles
• Knowledge of Vehicle Dynamics simulation tools and AV/ADAS simulation tools such as CarMaker, CarSim, Vires VTD, Carla, Gazebo, Applied Intuition, etc.
• Knowledge of Internet-of-things (e.g., transmitting video, audio and telematics data over the internet)
• Experience working with different AV sensors, such as LiDAR, radar, and Camera sensors
• Experience working with ROS/ROS2
• Knowledge of the Robotic Technology Kernel (RTK) or Army Robotic Common Software (ARCS) Libraries
• Knowledge of artificial intelligence and machine learning
• Knowledge of system safety and Development Vehicle Use Level approval processes

Please note: U.S. citizenship needed for required Confidential U.S. Security Clearance.

Sponsorship: GM DOES NOT PROVIDE IMMIGRATION-RELATED SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE. DO NOT APPLY FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU WILL NEED GM IMMIGRATION SPONSORSHIP (e.g., H-1B, TN, STEM OPT, etc.) NOW OR IN THE FUTURE.

This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.

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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.

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