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

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 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 with GM Behaviors.

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Translation & Test Intent Provide technical leadership for how infrastructure functional requirements are translated 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 . Review and challenge traceability and evidence completeness at key milestones, driving closure of gaps before Safety Usage Approval Milestones and Formal Reviews . 3. Integration & System Validation Execution Oversee integration and system validation execution plans across benches, vehicles, and virtual environments for Core ECUs and Infrastructure Functions within Software Defined Vehicle Architecture Define patterns and playbooks for structured exploratory testing, virtual-to-hardware correlation, and variant evaluation . Support resolution of complex integration issues spanning multiple systems, hardware, and software, engaging appropriate experts as needed. 4. Readiness, Compliance & Governance Lead readiness, compliance, and governance discussions for SDV Architecture in ADV, PAR, DVUL, Regulatory, and related forums. Ensure validation, readiness, evidence, and milestone status for the SDV Architecture are accurate, concise, and decision-ready. Guide the team on compliance dependency management with DRE and supplier inputs, and on export / regulatory certification documentation. 5. Issue Triage, Closure & Launch Support Lead cross-functional issue triage and closure ownership for high-impact integration and validation issues within the SDV Architecture . Convert technical discussion into clear owners, actions, timing, and escalation paths, ensuring structured concern surfacing and risk management. Support plant, launch, and field teams by prioritizing and coordinating resolution of integration issues impacting launch readiness. 6. Cross-functional Operating Model & Leadership Define and continuously improve the cross-functional operating model for system integration and validation for SDV Architecture (roles,