Autonomous Vehicle Safety Case Lead
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Job Description
Remote: This role is categorized as remote. This means the successful candidate may be based anywhere in the United States and is not expected to report to a GM worksite unless directed by their manager.
The Role
The Safety Assurance for Effective Autonomous Driving Software (SAFE-ADS) department is part of the Global Product Safety, System, and Certification (GPSSC) organization at GM. This department serves as the central body for automated driving system (ADS) safety and brings together expertise from across the company to establish a comprehensive safety case. GM’s vision is zero crashes, zero emissions, and zero congestion – AV safety is at the heart of driving forward this vision.
Our scope spans several organizations cross GM, requiring us to work directly with executive leaders, their team members, and strategic partners to build and deploy safe autonomous capabilities. As the AV Safety Case Lead, you will report directly to the head of AV Safety Strategy and Assessment and lead this effort across GM, engage with regulatory bodies, and external consultants to develop, deliver and continuously improve the safety case for autonomous capabilities around the world.
What You’ll Do
Strategy and Execution
Define the vision, strategy and roadmap plan to successfully achieve safety case completeness to support the program launch.
Define program governance structure to detail how safety case development will be conducted, support executive forums to escalations and resolve issues, and drive safety case continuously improvement.
Lead our executives and key partners elegantly through decisions to drive toward our launch goals and help ensure high safety standards are maintained through engineering and operations execution constraints.
Compile and lead a program core team through the development and execution of each safety case (possibly including hiring a small team of direct reports as appropriate to serve as framework advisors, goal vertical aggregators or other needs)
Ensure program core team members operate as accountable sub-program leads with appropriately staffed cross functional sub-teams
Use a variety of artifact and planning tools to synthesize requirements, evidence storage and timelines between organizations that use both Agile and waterfall-type methodologies.
Balance technical and analytical insights with intuition to formulate compelling resource strategies while adjusting quickly to new information.
Be responsible for program milestones and timelines, helping our teams determine and achieve their goals
Identify risks, develop mitigation strategies, and facilitate conflict resolution.
Develop and institute the appropriate level of process to balance structure and flexibility.
Technical
Use technical judgment in working with large, cross engineering teams to arrive at mutually agreeable solutions, escalate to technical leadership as required. Decompose multi-faceted engineering challenges into clear and measurable risks and achieve consensus for team recommendations
Establish a method for traceability from safety case claim, argumentation, and evidence.
Drive accountability across the team through clear communication of goals and expectations, consistent follow-up and reporting, and creating a supportive environment. Drive a culture of thorough and clear metrics development to measure, achieve, and exceed safety standards.
Actively demonstrate GM behaviors and safety professionalism in your decision-making and everyday activities.
This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.
Additional Job Description
Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)
Masters In Engineering, or similar
10 years in industry, proven experience in program management (technical preferred)
Experience leading sophisticated, fast-paced programs with broad scope and enterprise level visibility spanning multiple teams and organizations, often with conflicting priorities and schedules
Effective at building consensus across different functions
Self-motivation and passion to develop your teams, encourage standard methodologies, and constantly improve processes
Thrive in ambiguity, crafting simplicity and order
Passion for self-driving car technology, safety, and its impact on the world
At time when needed,
What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)
MBA or similar experience
Technical experience with autonomous vehicles or other sophisticated, high-quality products from design through launch and scale.
Safety Case development experience in robotics, aerospace, transportation or similar with familiarity balancing trades between depth and breadth of implementation.
System engineering experience such as requirement and technical specification development, evaluation, and documenting evidence of conformance to the requirement
Compensation:
The expected base compensation for this role is $160,200- $245,400USD Annually
Actual base compensation within the identified range will vary based on factors relevant to the position
Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance
Benefits:
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.
About GM
Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.
Why Join Us
We aspire to be the most inclusive company in the world. We believe we all must make a choice every day – individually and collectively – to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Our Work Appropriately philosophy supports our foundation of inclusion and provides employees the flexibility to work where they can have the greatest impact on achieving our goals, dependent on role needs. Every day, we want every employee, no matter their background, ethnicity, preferences, or location, to feel they belong to one General Motors team.
Benefits Overview
The goal of the General Motors total rewards program is to support the health and well-being of you and your family. Our comprehensive compensation plan incudes, the following benefits, in addition to many others: • Paid time off including vacation days, holidays, and parental leave for mothers, fathers and adoptive parents; • Healthcare (including a triple tax advantaged health savings account and wellness incentive), dental, vision and life insurance plans to cover you and your family; • Company and matching contributions to 401K savings plan to help you save for retirement; • Global recognition program for peers and leaders to recognize and be recognized for results and behaviors that reflect our company values; • Tuition assistance and student loan refinancing; • Discount on GM vehicles for you, your family and friends.
Diversity Information
General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that workforce diversity creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers. We understand and embrace the variety through which people gain experiences whether through professional, personal, educational, or volunteer opportunities. GM is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
We encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications and apply for any positions that match your skills and capabilities.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statements
GM is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. GM is committed to providing a work environment free from unlawful discrimination and advancing equal employment opportunities for all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, all practices and decisions relating to terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, training, promotion, discipline, compensation, benefits, and termination of employment are made without regard to an individual's protected characteristics. For purposes of this policy, “protected characteristics' include an individual's actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), gender identity or gender expression, sexual orientation, weight, height, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws and ordinances. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email us at Careers.Accommodations@GM.com or call us at 800-865-7580. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.
About the job
Autonomous Vehicle Safety Case Lead
To see similar active jobs please follow this link: Remote Consulting jobs
Job Description
Remote: This role is categorized as remote. This means the successful candidate may be based anywhere in the United States and is not expected to report to a GM worksite unless directed by their manager.
The Role
The Safety Assurance for Effective Autonomous Driving Software (SAFE-ADS) department is part of the Global Product Safety, System, and Certification (GPSSC) organization at GM. This department serves as the central body for automated driving system (ADS) safety and brings together expertise from across the company to establish a comprehensive safety case. GM’s vision is zero crashes, zero emissions, and zero congestion – AV safety is at the heart of driving forward this vision.
Our scope spans several organizations cross GM, requiring us to work directly with executive leaders, their team members, and strategic partners to build and deploy safe autonomous capabilities. As the AV Safety Case Lead, you will report directly to the head of AV Safety Strategy and Assessment and lead this effort across GM, engage with regulatory bodies, and external consultants to develop, deliver and continuously improve the safety case for autonomous capabilities around the world.
What You’ll Do
Strategy and Execution
Define the vision, strategy and roadmap plan to successfully achieve safety case completeness to support the program launch.
Define program governance structure to detail how safety case development will be conducted, support executive forums to escalations and resolve issues, and drive safety case continuously improvement.
Lead our executives and key partners elegantly through decisions to drive toward our launch goals and help ensure high safety standards are maintained through engineering and operations execution constraints.
Compile and lead a program core team through the development and execution of each safety case (possibly including hiring a small team of direct reports as appropriate to serve as framework advisors, goal vertical aggregators or other needs)
Ensure program core team members operate as accountable sub-program leads with appropriately staffed cross functional sub-teams
Use a variety of artifact and planning tools to synthesize requirements, evidence storage and timelines between organizations that use both Agile and waterfall-type methodologies.
Balance technical and analytical insights with intuition to formulate compelling resource strategies while adjusting quickly to new information.
Be responsible for program milestones and timelines, helping our teams determine and achieve their goals
Identify risks, develop mitigation strategies, and facilitate conflict resolution.
Develop and institute the appropriate level of process to balance structure and flexibility.
Technical
Use technical judgment in working with large, cross engineering teams to arrive at mutually agreeable solutions, escalate to technical leadership as required. Decompose multi-faceted engineering challenges into clear and measurable risks and achieve consensus for team recommendations
Establish a method for traceability from safety case claim, argumentation, and evidence.
Drive accountability across the team through clear communication of goals and expectations, consistent follow-up and reporting, and creating a supportive environment. Drive a culture of thorough and clear metrics development to measure, achieve, and exceed safety standards.
Actively demonstrate GM behaviors and safety professionalism in your decision-making and everyday activities.
This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.
Additional Job Description
Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)
Masters In Engineering, or similar
10 years in industry, proven experience in program management (technical preferred)
Experience leading sophisticated, fast-paced programs with broad scope and enterprise level visibility spanning multiple teams and organizations, often with conflicting priorities and schedules
Effective at building consensus across different functions
Self-motivation and passion to develop your teams, encourage standard methodologies, and constantly improve processes
Thrive in ambiguity, crafting simplicity and order
Passion for self-driving car technology, safety, and its impact on the world
At time when needed,
What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)
MBA or similar experience
Technical experience with autonomous vehicles or other sophisticated, high-quality products from design through launch and scale.
Safety Case development experience in robotics, aerospace, transportation or similar with familiarity balancing trades between depth and breadth of implementation.
System engineering experience such as requirement and technical specification development, evaluation, and documenting evidence of conformance to the requirement
Compensation:
The expected base compensation for this role is $160,200- $245,400USD Annually
Actual base compensation within the identified range will vary based on factors relevant to the position
Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance
Benefits:
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.
About GM
Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.
Why Join Us
We aspire to be the most inclusive company in the world. We believe we all must make a choice every day – individually and collectively – to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Our Work Appropriately philosophy supports our foundation of inclusion and provides employees the flexibility to work where they can have the greatest impact on achieving our goals, dependent on role needs. Every day, we want every employee, no matter their background, ethnicity, preferences, or location, to feel they belong to one General Motors team.
Benefits Overview
The goal of the General Motors total rewards program is to support the health and well-being of you and your family. Our comprehensive compensation plan incudes, the following benefits, in addition to many others: • Paid time off including vacation days, holidays, and parental leave for mothers, fathers and adoptive parents; • Healthcare (including a triple tax advantaged health savings account and wellness incentive), dental, vision and life insurance plans to cover you and your family; • Company and matching contributions to 401K savings plan to help you save for retirement; • Global recognition program for peers and leaders to recognize and be recognized for results and behaviors that reflect our company values; • Tuition assistance and student loan refinancing; • Discount on GM vehicles for you, your family and friends.
Diversity Information
General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that workforce diversity creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers. We understand and embrace the variety through which people gain experiences whether through professional, personal, educational, or volunteer opportunities. GM is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
We encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications and apply for any positions that match your skills and capabilities.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statements
GM is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. GM is committed to providing a work environment free from unlawful discrimination and advancing equal employment opportunities for all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, all practices and decisions relating to terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, training, promotion, discipline, compensation, benefits, and termination of employment are made without regard to an individual's protected characteristics. For purposes of this policy, “protected characteristics' include an individual's actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), gender identity or gender expression, sexual orientation, weight, height, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws and ordinances. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email us at Careers.Accommodations@GM.com or call us at 800-865-7580. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.