Principal AV Behavior Safety Engineering Lead

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Reference and interpret standards such as ISO 21448 (SOTIF), ISO 5083, and AVSC best practices to define GM’s strategy for safe autonomous system development , validation and deployment
• Own safety strategy for next generation ADS architectures
• Own the behavior‑focused portion of the ADS Safety Case, including key claims, sufficiency criteria, and recommended evidence for AV behavior safety performance .
• Collaborate with Software Validation, Embodied AI, Simulation, and Safety Metrics teams to define the end‑to‑end AV behavior validation methodology for AI‑driven systems.
• Set the strategy for how we systematically break down ODDs and how performance is validated per behavior and in aggregate.
• Collaborate on evaluation metrics, human benchmarks, and safety launch targets for AV behaviors and overall system performance .
• Assess AV performance across safety and reliability dimensions using simulation, closed‑course, and public‑road data and provide clear, prioritized feedback to engineering teams
• Define and run an assurance process to verify the sufficiency criteria and safety targets to support launch readiness