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Job Description

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 peopleas we aim to makedriving safer, smarter, and more connected, shaping the future of transportation on a global scale.

As aSenior State Estimation Engineer within the SEAM Embodied AI organization, you will be a senior individual contributordrivingcutting-edgesensor calibration and state estimation solutions that directlyimpactautonomous driving performance. Your role is pivotal in designing, architecting, and deploying advanced systems for purposes including pinpointing the vehicle's location in the world, and calibrating parameters of all sensors to ensure they optimally support many other vehicle subsystems.You'lllead critical technical initiatives, collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, mentor engineers across the organization, and significantly shape the future of onboard autonomous driving capabilities.

About the Organization:

The SEAM Embodied AI team is at the forefront of developing groundbreaking sensor fusion systems powering fully autonomous vehicles. Weleveragemodern approaches that are both practical and theoretically sound, supported with top quality code and rigorous testing.Our solutions enable robust state estimation for the purposes of real-time localization, static and dynamic sensor calibration, as well as onboard and offboard high-fidelity map creation at scale.Join a collaborative and innovative team redefining autonomy throughstate-of-the-artmethodology, delivering solutions that move beyond current technological boundaries.

What You'll Do:

• Drive the design, development, and deployment of advancedsolutions forstate estimation,localization,sensor calibration and more.

• Lead and architect complex projects, from conception through validation to onboard implementation, emphasizing scalability, robustness, and safety-critical operation.

• Champion innovation inmulti-sensor self-calibration in unstructured environments,state estimation architectures, and fault tolerance strategies suited for real-time onboard deployment.

• Provide technical mentorship and thought leadership, elevating engineering practices, and fostering innovation across teams.

• Collaborate closely with multidisciplinary engineering groups, ensuring seamless integration of localization, sensor alignment, and other capabilities into autonomous vehicle systems.

• Influence technical roadmaps, shaping strategic priorities aligned with companyobjectivesand product milestones.

Your Skills & Abilities:

• Master's or Ph.D. in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, ora relatedtechnical field.

• 8-10+ years of extensive experience developing and deploying advanced state estimationand/or sensor calibrationsystems, particularly in real-time onboard applications.

• Proventrack recordas a technical leader and expert insensorcalibration,state estimation, and/orlocalization,operatingon a wide variety of sensor inputs to perform robustly within safety-critical systems.

• Strong software engineeringproficiency, particularly in C++ and Python, alongside extensive hands-on experience with development, integration, and testing tools.

• Excellent communication, collaboration, and mentoring abilities, comfortable influencing technicalstrategyand guiding engineering excellence across the organization.

Bonus:

AV/ADAS experience is a big plus

Remote:

This role is based remotely but if you live within a 50-mile radius of Mountain View, youare expected to report to that location three times a week, at minimum.

This job may be eligible forrelocationbenefits.

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