Description

Workplace Classification:

This means the successful candidate is expected to report to their primary location (Milford, MI) three times per week, at minimum, or other frequency dictated by the business.

The Team:

The Electrification Solutions New Markets (ESNM) organization within Vehicle Mechatronic Embedded Controls, (VMEC), has an opening for a Safety Design Software Architect. ESNM is a start-up within VMEC that focuses on battery management solutions for non-automotive or unique automotive products. In this role, you will directly impact GM’s strategy to expand into new markets such as Autonomous Manufacturing, Mobile Power Generation Systems, Stationary Energy Storage Systems, Specialty Vehicles, Watercraft, and Locomotives! We are seeking creative, highly motivated, agile thinkers with passion and expertise in Safety, Controls and Software, with great attention to detail.

The Role:

This individual will lead the safety strategy throughout ESNM while aligning on a shared technical direction with System Safety. They will be heavily integrated with the Agile Teams to elaborate and develop software and hardware solutions, validating technology assumptions, evaluating implementation alternatives, and supporting our CICD strategy.

What You’ll do:

Define Safety System architecture to meet allocated System Safety requirements: 

Participate with System Safety Engineering in planning/defining high-level design of the product solution; explore solution alternatives.
Operate within the business constraints when analyzing the impact of design decisions (Guardrails) / economic tradeoffs.
Architect the solution for scalability, maintainability, testability, etc.
Define subsystems and their interfaces, allocate responsibilities to sub systems, understand solution deployment and communicate requirements for interactions with the solution context.
Derive lower-level system requirements from the System Safety requirements for function or interfaces (example: deploy-ability / portability).
Support the Electrification Solutions New Market during Planning and Implementation with technical guidance, review system architecture designs in all Battery Management System areas.
Assist in Backlog refinements to identify Safety Critical features and functions.
Ensure proper prioritization of Safety Critical requirements.
Ensure adherence to UL Certification, DVUL and ASIL level requirements and timelines.
Plan and develop the Architectural Runway for the SW Safety strategy.
Create enabler Features / Stories aligned to ESNM roadmap ensure appropriate Safety Cases are defined and driven throughout the organization.
Advocate for Enabler requirements supporting the System Safety strategy.

Enable the CICD Pipeline through appropriate design guidelines

Provide and monitor the necessary adherence to appropriate design guidelines for Safety Critical Software
Support Built in Quality / Continuous Compliance.

Define Safety System Requirements at the Software Implementation & Software Architecture level: 

Perform Software Safety Analyses based on derived requirements allocated by System Safety.
Establish System Safety requirements generated by the above analysis or decomposed from the allocated System Safety requirements.
Define Safety Critical calibrations jointly with System Safety and Calibration Technical Specialist.
Participate in the definition of product development requirements.
Ensure proper completion of all necessary business records and documentation.
Participate/validate system demonstration adherence to System Safety requirements.

Direct Safety Shared Services Scrum team development

Prioritize, along with other Safety Design System Architects, the Safety Shared Service Backlog.
Define deliverables for Scrum team development of System Safety monitors.
Mentor Software/Controls engineers into becoming capable Safety System Architects.
Review System Safety monitor designs and confirm overall quality.

Additional Description

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications):

BS in Engineering, Electrical, Mechanical, Computer Science, or equivalent degree.
Minimum 5+ years Engineering experience related to embedded controls and/or controls/software development.
Knowledge of Electrification and diagnostics
Understanding of Embedded Controls Development & Delivery Process
Skilled with Software coding (C-language), Simulink, MATLAB, DOORS, GIT environment(s), Jira, plant modeling and/or analysis tools.
Proficiency with control system theory and application to embedded systems including state space feedback control, adaptive control, and model predictive control (or equivalent).
Strong partnership and teamwork skills, with demonstrated ability to learn from and share knowledge with co-workers in a fast-paced environment with sometimes incomplete requirements.
High level of analytical problem-solving skills where problems are unusual and difficult.
Ability to Participate in cross-functional scrum teams while demonstrating high level of collaboration and negotiation.
High level of integrity, ability to deal with ambiguity, take initiative/self-directed.
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Demonstrated ability to manage multiple complex projects and assignments with autonomy and accountability for results.
Consistent demonstration of innovative thinking that is customer-centric.

What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications):

MS in Engineering, Physics, Computer Science
Minimum 8+ years Engineering experience related to embedded controls and/or controls/software development.
Possess 3+ year in UL Certification bringing a first-time product through approval process
Possess 7+ years with HV Electrical Systems

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