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Autonomous Vehicle Test Engineer
General Motors Company · 🇺🇸 Milford, Michigan, United States of America
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 606 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 267 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What General Motors Company paid sponsored hires in similar roles171 certified filings for “Senior Software Engineer” (Software Developers) in MI: $140k–$163k, median $150k. Most were filed at wage level IV (74%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 606 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 267 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Job Description Position summary • GM Level: 6A • Proposed job-family alignment: Test and Validation Engineering • Primary work location: GM Milford Proving Ground, Milford, Michigan • Travel: Approximately 10% as needed for training, team alignment, vehicle support, or other GM testing activities • Career track: Individual contributor General Motors is developing advanced driving-assistance and autonomous-vehicle capabilities that require safe, repeatable, and scalable validation. The Autonomous Vehicle Test Engineer will plan, execute, and report autonomous-vehicle testing at GM’s Milford Proving Ground in partnership with AV Test Engineering, Vehicle Integration, software and systems engineering, AV Operations, Fleet Reliability Engineering, and other cross-functional teams. This role will translate engineering objectives and approved test requests into clear, executable test plans and procedures. The engineer will conduct closed-course regression, feature, behavior, calibration, system-validation, and structured data-collection testing; evaluate vehicle and autonomy-system behavior; troubleshoot software and hardware issues; and deliver complete, actionable evidence to engineering customers. The role combines test planning, hands-on vehicle and test execution, technical triage, data analysis, and process improvement. The successful candidate will be comfortable working in a fast-changing environment, taking ownership of ambiguous problems, collaborating across software and hardware domains, and maintaining a high bar for safety, test quality, and technical rigor. What you’ll do Plan and execute autonomous-vehicle testing • Translate product, software, systems, and program objectives into practical test plans, test cases, procedures, schedules, and resource requirements. • Plan and execute repeatable software regression, feature and behavior validation, structured scenario, calibration-support, fault-response, and targeted data-collection tests. • Conduct closed-course vehicle testing at Milford Proving Ground, including vehicle preparation, test setup, scenario execution, observation, intervention or takeover when required, and post-run closeout. • Coordinate test requests, priorities, vehicle assignments, track reservations, operating windows, personnel, equipment, and readiness reviews with AV Test Engineering and cross-functional stakeholders. • Follow approved test procedures and acceptance criteria while using sound engineering judgment when test conditions, vehicle state, system behavior, or data quality differs from expectations. • Make timely recommendations to proceed, modify, repeat, block, or stop testing based on safety, vehicle condition, system behavior, track conditions, weather, data quality, or test intent. • Support test execution across development and release milestones, including build checkout, regression campaigns, feature validation, system integration, and structured validation activities. • Support approved vehicle testing on public roads or other test environments when required by the program, applicable procedures, and GM driver-training and safety requirements. Perform vehicle and system technical triage • Monitor vehicle and autonomy-system health before, during, and after testing, identifying conditions that could affect safety, data quality, or test availability. • Triage issues involving the AV software stack, vehicle compute, sensors, localization, calibration, connectivity, data recording, host-vehicle systems, vehicle networks, power, and test infrastructure. • Use system status, logs, drive data, diagnostic tools, measurements, operator observations, and repeatable experiments to isolate likely causes and determine the appropriate next action. • Reproduce issues when s