Hybrid - This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to their primary location three times per week, at minimum, or other frequency dictated by the business.
The Team:
General Motors is at the forefront of the transformation in the automotive industry with the electrification of our portfolio and the development of leading-edge central compute and autonomous capabilities. Our Embedded Platforms Infrastructure team is a dynamic, high-energy, and innovative group focused on building the software platforms that underpins how controller safety, communications, cybersecurity, memory, over-the-air programming and power management functions across the electronics portfolio of all of our vehicles.
The Role:
We are looking for a talented and motivated candidate to join our team in our journey of defining and executing our next generation Vehicle Electrical Architecture. The Embedded Platform Infrastructure Systems Engineering organization is looking for a Staff Systems Engineer that will lead the development of System Safety architecture utilized by all GM’s platforms.
As a Staff Systems Engineer, you will be responsible for developing the strategy for implementing Mechatronics Infrastructure System Safety by aligning stakeholders, requirements, test cases, designs, and delivering a product that exceeds our customers' expectations.
What You'll Do (Responsibilities):
- Champion implementation strategy of mechatronics infrastructure system safety.
- Create architecture requirements and test cases for infrastructure system safety implementation.
- Drive industry standardization of functional safety requirements and design.
- Collaborate with System Safety Engineers, ECU hardware experts, software implementation teams, and hardware teams to ensure safety cases for microprocessors, ASICs, ECUs, and infrastructure related to application system safety cases are:
- Correctly allocated to hardware and software
- Aligned with critical vehicle safety milestones for vehicle operation
- In place to support application teams
- Create test strategy to ensure all system safety functions can be tested to meet objectives.
- Ensure processor integrity and system safety related requirements can be appropriately translated to implementation strategies for new HW, new ECUs, new application requirements.
- Lead functional decomposition, interface definition and DFMEA for safety system functions.
- Lead testing and validation initiatives to ensure proper functionality and performance.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including our Tier 1s, to ensure seamless integration of mechatronics system safety into the overall vehicle architecture.
- Create and maintain technical documentation, including system specifications, decomposition diagram, test plans, and troubleshooting guides.
- Provide advice and technical mentoring to other team members and promote a team environment that values the backgrounds, opinions, and ideas of everyone.
- Collaborate with team to continuously improve processes, methodologies, and tools.
- Stay up to date with the latest industry standards, protocols, and trends related to system safety.
