AV Safety Engineering Analytics Lead – Execution & Transparency (GPSSC)

General Motors is a leader in automotive safety and innovation, seeking an AV Safety Engineering Analytics Lead to enhance their automated driving safety initiatives. This role involves leading a team to develop safety analytics strategies, engage stakeholders, and communicate technical findings effectively.

Responsibilities:

• Define and maintain an AV safety analytics strategy and roadmap that connects DDT metrics, Safety Performance Indicators (SPIs), benchmarking, counterfactual modeling, and near-miss metrics to program milestones and safety cases
• Ensure that DDT safety metrics and benchmarking outputs are discoverable, reproducible, and traceable, with clear data lineage, assumptions, and ownership
• Lead members of AV-SEA team in scoping, executing, and reviewing end-to-end safety analyses
• Translate complex analytic work (e.g., benchmarking, SPI roadmaps, counterfactual analyses) into clear, structured safety narratives for senior leadership, governance bodies, and cross-functional stakeholders
• Produce transparent, technically grounded narratives and co-authored publications that build trust in GM’s AV safety activities with internal and external stakeholders
• Oversee the analysis products of AV-SEA analytics activities, including internal content and external messaging in support of AV-SEA and SAFE-ADS safety science and analytics activities
• Establish and steward safety messaging that aligns internal dashboards, technical design documents, safety cases, and external-facing materials around consistent safety metrics and evidence
• Operate as SAFE-ADS and AV-SEA interface to GM communications and marketing related to safety analytics and safety performance monitoring methods
• Identify opportunities for, and lead collaborative publications work, including technical white papers, conference publications, policy briefs, social media content, and external safety reports that accurately represent AV-SEA’s work while supporting regulatory and public-trust objectives
• Be the day-to-day interface between AV-SEA and autonomy and systems engineering, validation and test, simulation, product and program management, legal, and communications to ensure safety analytics are decision-relevant and timely
• Coordinate with GPSSC teams, partner organizations, external stakeholders, and industry associations to identify strategic needs, align safety-analytics initiatives, and organize joint workstreams
• Represent AV-SEA in internal review forums, safety governance meetings, and cross-functional working groups, driving clarity on safety metrics, pass/fail thresholds, and program readiness
• Mentor and coach AV-SEA team members in strategy, stakeholder engagement, and communication, helping individual contributors connect technical work to safety impact and program decisions

Requirements:

• Masters degree in Human Factors Engineering, Experimental Psychology, Quantitative Psychology or similar
• 10 years of business experience including strategic planning, relationship development, developing and leading teams executing technical or scientific programs
• 8+ years experience directing programs for industry and government in the domain of ground transportation safety and automated driving systems