Senior Vehicle Motion Controls Integration Engineer

Job Description

Work Arrangement:

Hybrid:  

This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Milford, Michigan three times per week, at minimum.  

Our Mission:   

At General Motors, our product teams are redefining mobility. Through a human-centered design process, we create vehicles and experiences that are designed not just to be seen, but to be felt. We’re turning today’s impossible into tomorrow’s standard —from breakthrough hardware and battery systems to intuitive design, intelligent software, and next-generation safety and entertainment features.  

Every day, our products move millions of people as we aim to make driving safer, smarter, and more connected, shaping the future of transportation on a global scale.  

Why Work for Us:

There’s never been a more exciting time to work at General Motors.

We are passionate about our bold vision of a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions, and Zero Congestion. Our culture is built on inclusivity, where diverse perspectives are embraced, and every employee can contribute to their fullest potential. We offer flexible and tech-savvy work environments, foster innovation through collaboration, and encourage community engagement through volunteerism.

The Role:

We are seeking a Senior Vehicle Motion Controls Integration Engineer to join our Vehicle Control Design team. This role is focused on the integration, validation, and deployment of autonomous/ADAS software stacks and the Vehicle Motion Control platform across simulation environments, instrumented development vehicles, and multiple electrical architectures.

The successful candidate will lead the technical execution required to connect AV and VMC control stacks with vehicle interfaces, plant models, real-time hardware, and validation environments. This position requires deep hands-on experience in model-based development, vehicle network integration, real-time systems, signal verification, controller gateway development, ECU emulation, and vehicle-level testing.

You will play a key role in building and validating scalable integration solutions that support virtual development, development vehicle integration and readiness, winter test preparation, current and future architecture integration, and demonstration of advanced vehicle motion control capabilities.

What You'll Do:

• Lead AV-VMC integration across simulation, real-time, and in-vehicle environments using tools such as MATLAB/Simulink, CarSim, dSPACE, and related in-house toolchains

• Develop, integrate, and validate wrapper models that encapsulate I/O, gateways, plant interfaces, and required control interfaces for current and future vehicle programs

• Establish and verify communications between vehicles and real-time platforms including dSPACE - Scalexio and MABXIII

• Configure and validate instrumentation and interfaces for development vehicles, including navigation, sensing, and vehicle network communication systems

• Develop and deploy controller gateways for actuators, ADAS controllers, and ACP systems, including signal routing, scaling, timing alignment, and interface validation

• Perform signal-level verification and end-to-end validation of controller interfaces, including range, rate, latency, integrity, and fault handling

• Implement and validate selective ECU replacement and real-time ECU emulation solutions for development and test environments

• Integrate AV control interfaces and AV-VMC middleware into vehicle platforms across current and future architectures for closed-loop operation

• Support development and modification of dSPACE/ControlDesk layouts, dashboards, diagnostic tools, and MATLAB/CAN-based data analysis utilities

• Execute and support vehicle, HiL, and simulation-based validation activities, including regression testing, root-cause analysis, and issue resolution with internal teams and external suppliers

• Prepare vehicles and systems for winter testing through configuration validation, logging, diagnostics, and fallback strategy development

• Support Milford Proving Ground integration activities, structured test events, and technical vehicle demonstrations

• Document network architecture, configurations, integration results, verification findings, and readiness status for program milestones

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications):

Vehicle Integration and Validation

• Strong hands-on experience with vehicle integration, hardware-software bring-up, and full-vehicle val