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Principal Systems Engineer – AV Sensor Design

General Motors
Remote, USA
Full-time
Senior · 13+ years experience
Remote
Discovered 1 weeks ago

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Benefits:

  • Benefits: GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs. Benefit options include medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance programs, employee assistance program, GM vehicle discounts and more.

Qualifications

  • Experience with productionization challenges of lidar technology and the trade spaces therein
  • Experience with extrinsic calibration techniques, localization, or other related topics

Responsibilities

  • You will get the opportunity to be part of the following:
  • Own the technical strategy for lidar development as a part of current and future autonomy program multi-modality sensing suites
  • Work alongside technical experts in sensors and perception to define leading-edge autonomy products
  • Lead trade studies taking into account performance, cost, and integration to influence the next-generation of lidar development
  • Evaluate data products from prototype and production platforms to assess opportunity for improvement
  • Work with production teams and vendors to see technology realized into production designs
  • Define lidar performance requirements to achieve next-generation autonomy capabilities with robustness across broad ODDs
  • Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Applied Physics or related field
  • 13+ years of experience in a remote sensing, lidar development, photonic system development or related, with a majority of that experience concentrated in lidars
  • Demonstrated role as a recognized lidar authority on a program or within an organization with decision making authority on technical direction of lidar technology development
  • Direct experience developing lidar hardware and signal processing as well as calibration methodology and data consumption or analysis
  • Experience with productionization challenges of lidar technology and the trade spaces therein
  • Deep command of lidar fundamentals and their practical impacts to design across optical link budget analysis, target phenomenology, detector physics, noise, laser safety, optical path design, window optics, spectrum selection, and signal processing techniques.
  • Experience developing robust solutions for weather and environmental effects
  • Experience developing lidar for autonomy products
  • Significant experience with SPAD lidars
  • Hands-on proficiency with data analysis and ability to lead root cause analysis and analytic efforts
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability effectively communicate technical strategy to a wide range of audiences of varying background
  • PhD in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Applied Physics or related field
  • Patents, publications, or recognized industry contributions in lidar or electro-optical sensing
  • Experience working on L4 (or equivalent) autonomous vehicle programs with an understanding of autonomy behaviors
  • Experience developing or supporting simulation models
  • Knowledge of lidar perception models and sensor fusion consumption of lidar data, including how point cloud characteristics drive ML model performance
  • Experience with extrinsic calibration techniques, localization, or other related topics
  • Experience designing validation and test plans

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