Senior Safety Integration Validation Engineer Lead – SDV Architecture (GPSSC)

Job Description At General Motors, our product teams are redefining mobility. Through a human-centered design process, we create vehicles and experiences that are designed not just to be seen, but to be felt. We’re turning today’s impossible into tomorrow’s standard —from breakthrough hardware and battery systems to intuitive design, intelligent software, and next-generation safety and entertainment features. Every day, our products move millions of people as we aim to make driving safer, smarter, and more connected, shaping the future of transportation on a global scale. The Role The Senior Safety Integration Validation Engineer Lead for SDV Architecture provides technical and leadership oversight for end-to-end integration and validation of Core ECUs and Infrastructure Functions within Software Defined Vehicle Architecture. This role also drives broader strategy, readiness, integration, and mentorship for the application domain SIVE community, ensuring that validation standard work, training, and governance are consistently applied. The Senior SIVE Lead shapes validation operating models, aligns cross-functional partners, and represents the Infrastructure Functions in key readiness and governance forums. The role mentors SIVEs and Senior SIVEs, supports role clarity, and ensures that integration issues, risks, and evidence are managed with a systems mindset and in line w [... source excerpt omitted ...] ted into test intent and coverage across overall SDV Architecture. Sponsor and review executable test intent, ensuring alignment with system architecture, safety, regulatory, and customer requirements. Coach SIVEs and Senior SIVEs on defining ownership and converting ambiguous or evolving requirements into clear validation objectives and coverage. 2. Traceability & Evidence Management Define and champion traceability and evidence-management practices across DNG, ETM, Jira, and other tools. Ensure evidence flow, source-of-truth rules, and audit-ready documentation expectations are clearly understood and applied by HW/SW development teams, as well as system development teams. [... source excerpt omitted ...] and execution discipline. Lead by example through accountability, constructive feedback, inclusion, and consistent application of GM Behaviors. Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications) Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics, Computer, Systems, or related discipline). 5+ years of relevant engineering experience in vehicle systems, validation, integration, or testing with ownership of significant technical deliverables. Strong knowledge of vehicle systems, interfaces, architecture variants, and failure modes relevant to assigned scope. Hands-on experience with system- or feature-level testing on benches, vehicles, and/or virtual test environ