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About the role

  • Principal Systems Architect defining autonomous-vehicle platform architecture at General Motors. Leading safety-critical systems strategy, requirements, verification, and technical direction across vehicle programs.

Responsibilities

  • Define the technical vision and strategy for AV Platform Software across vehicle platforms and product lines.
  • Develop functional, logical, and physical architecture and an early model-based systems engineering baseline.
  • Translate business, product, safety, cybersecurity, regulatory, and vehicle-integration goals into roadmaps.
  • Own milestone scope and its translation into Systems Engineering deliverables and KPIs.
  • Decompose PRDs and features into systems and sub-systems.
  • Own system-level requirements, boundaries, assumptions, constraints, system specifications, and system FMEAs with traceability.
  • Drive sub-system-level coverage and quality.
  • Resolve complex problems spanning teams and systems; track, document, and roll out system changes.
  • Set role boundaries and coverage across hardware, perception, autonomy, safety, cybersecurity, validation, manufacturing, service, suppliers, and vehicle-level architecture.
  • Drive requirements standards, artifact expectations, V&V strategy, and architecture metrics across AV Platform Systems Engineering.
  • Surface gaps on incoming P0 topics and AV escapes and communicate architecture risks with actionable recommendations to senior leadership.
  • Share architectural ideas, methods, and lessons with the broader GM engineering community.
  • Mentor senior and staff engineers and foster candid technical debate, learning, and inclusion.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in systems engineering, software engineering, computer engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, or a related technical discipline.
  • A Master’s degree plus 8 or more years of experience, or 10 or more years of industry experience delivering large-scale solutions and leading technical direction.
  • Recognized expert in systems architecture or software systems engineering, with a reputation across the company or industry.
  • Experience defining architecture and short- and long-term strategy for a vehicle platform, product line, or equivalent large-scale embedded platform, including system requirements, interfaces, and verification strategy.
  • Experience resolving complex issues spanning multiple teams and systems with independent judgment.
  • Experience with system decomposition, interface control, traceability, risk management, system change rollout, and validation planning on safety-critical platforms.
  • Experience with ISO 26262, SOTIF, Automotive SPICE, or equivalent safety-critical development frameworks.
  • Experience mentoring senior and staff-level engineers and participating in hiring, promotion, or role-assessment decisions.
  • Experience bringing new ideas, methods, or standards into a broader engineering community.
  • Ability to work effectively in a hybrid environment and collaborate across locations, disciplines, and regions.
  • Immigration-related sponsorship is not provided; candidates must not require GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future.

Benefits

  • Paid time off including vacation days, holidays, and supplemental benefits for pregnancy, parental and adoption leave.
  • Healthcare, dental and vision benefits including health care spending account and wellness incentive.
  • Life insurance plans to cover you and your family.
  • Company and matching contributions to a Defined Contribution Pension plan.
  • GM Vehicle Purchase Plan for you, your family, and friends.
  • Role-related assessment(s) and/or pre-employment screening where applicable.
  • Reasonable accommodation support for applicants with disabilities.

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

CA$186,000 - CA$236,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

Cyber Security

Location requirements

HybridMarkhamCanada

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