Autonomous Vehicle Safety Case Technical Program Manager

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.

Company Vehicle: Upon successful completion of a motor vehicle report review, you will be eligible to participate in a company vehicle evaluation program, through which you will be assigned a General Motors vehicle to drive and evaluate. Note: program participants are required to purchase/lease a qualifying GM vehicle every four years unless one of a limited number of exceptions applies.”
 

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)

• Bachelors degree in Engineering, Math, Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry, 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)

• Masters degree in Engineering or MBA

• 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.

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