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Job Description Vacancy Status: Yes - This posting is for an existing vacancy within the organization and is open to new applications. (Backfill) AI Disclosure: As part of the application process, Artificial Intelligence will be used in the hiring process for this role. Hybrid - This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Markham three times per week, at minimum [or other frequency dictated by the business] . About General Motors At General Motors, we are building a future with zero crashes, zero emissions, and zero congestion. Our teams develop the software, systems and technology that make advanced driver assistance and autonomous driving safe, reliable and scalable across vehicle programs. About the Role The Principal Systems Architect, AV Platform Software System Architecture is a technical leader for the system architecture of AV Platform, a critical foundation for GM’s future self-driving vehicles. The architect defines the functional, logical, and physical architecture that lets autonomous-vehicle software launch, operate safely, be serviced, and be manufactured at scale.  The architect is accountable for the architecture plan from product and business intent through system specification, sub-system coverage, system change rollout, and milestone readiness. Working with senior leadership, product managers, and program stakeholders, they set short- and long-term direction and keep the platform explainable, maintainable, scalable, and operationally efficient across vehicle platforms and Super Cruise generations.  The architect is the senior escalation point for the most complex issues that span multiple teams and systems, including where information is incomplete and stakeholder interests are not aligned, and an indirect technical leader for the systems engineering work that follows from the architecture. They mentor senior and staff engineers, level up teams where coverage or skill is thin, and bring new ideas to the GM engineering community.  What You’ll Do  Key Responsibilities  • Define the technical vision and strategy for AV Platform Software across vehicle platforms and product lines, including functional, logical, and physical architecture and an early model-based systems engineering baseline.  • Turn business, product, safety, cybersecurity, regulatory, and vehicle-integration goals into a short- and long-term roadmap with senior leadership, product managers, and program stakeholders. Own milestone scope, the roll-down of that scope into Systems Engineering deliverables and KPIs that show whether those commitments are being met.  • Decompose PRDs and features to systems and sub-systems. Own system-level requirements — boundary, assumptions, constraints, system specification, and system FMEA — with traceability. Drive Sub-System-level coverage and quality.  • Resolve the most complex problems that span teams and systems, with independent judgment where information is limited. Track, document, and roll out system changes.  • Set role boundaries and coverage with hardware, perception, autonomy, functional safety, software safety, cybersecurity, validation, manufacturing, service, suppliers, and vehicle-level architecture.  • Drive requirements standards, artifact expectations, V&V strategy, and architecture metrics into use across AV Platform Systems Engineering.  • Surface gaps on incoming P0 topics and AV escapes early, and status architecture risk with recommendations senior leadership can act on.  • Bring new architectural ideas, methods, and lessons to AV Platform into the broader GM engineering community.  • Role-model GM behaviors and an environment of candid technical debate, learning, and inclusion.  Expected Outcomes and Measures of Success 

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