Technical Lead - Simulation Platform (Galileo)

Job Description

Technical Lead - Autonomous Driving Evaluation Infrastructure 
 

Description 

Role Overview: As a Technical Lead of the Galileo team, you will be a senior individual contributor building and optimizing the infrastructure and required technology for all testing and evaluation workflows for both vehicle release and autonomous driving stack validation and verification. This includes building and optimizing data processing pipelines for large scale analysis. Your role will include defining and shaping the technical vision and strategy to ensure alignment with broader company objectives, designing and implementing systems to support AV / ADAS development. You will drive software engineering best practices within the team and develop tools that promote these standards company-wide. 

About the Organization: The GM AV Simulation team builds world-class testing and analysis related products and technologies to enable GM to accelerate development of autonomous vehicles as well as general vehicle software development. Our customers range from AV developers understanding the effects of their code on vehicle behavior, data engineers using our data pipelines to build the craziest insights for various evaluation needs, to the release team tracking top-line performance metrics on releases. AV Simulation aims to deliver intuitive user experiences for robotics and AI engineers that accelerate GM towards a driverless future. Galileo is building the core infra and architecture to support testing at scale. As part of this team, you will build the infra and required tech for test organization, test triggering, test analysis workflows and the related data pipelines. 

What You’ll Do: 

• Act as technical architect, help define technical vision and strategy, and ensure the technical direction of your team aligns with broader company objectives. 

• Design and implement systems capable of supporting simulating millions of miles of driving every day to predict on-road performance 

• Improve and deliver reliable software through continuous integration, automated testing, and code reviews. 

• Drive software engineering best practices within your team and develop tools that promote these standards company-wide. 

• Develop and oversee top-tier software engineers within a dynamic, fast-paced, and inclusive setting 

• Help define, build, and embody GM engineering culture and principles 

Your Skills & Abilities: 

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, or equivalent experience 

• A demonstrated track record of building high quality software and a focus on the customer through operational excellence