Job Description
The Role
This position is a key technical people-leader role within the Global Systems Engineering, Safety, and Validation (GSESV) organization, accountable for leading the newly formed Occupant Safety & Security Systems Validation team and ensuring team deliverables meet customer expectations for safety, regulatory compliance, and quality.
The successful candidate will bring strong communication skills, strategic thinking, relationship-building capability, and a results-focused mindset to guide work across complex validation activities and cross-functional teams. They will demonstrate urgency, comfort with ambiguity, and the ability to exercise independent judgment. This role requires solid systems engineering and validation knowledge in Seat, Seat Belt, and Driver Airbag Restraints, and has recently expanded to include security features and systems validation. The role will be responsible for developing, operationalizing, and implementing the team’s approach to execute this new area, including Teen Driver, Valet Mode, and Theft Deterrence.
This position also requires hands-on strength in physical and virtual evaluation procedure execution, type approval process knowledge, regulatory and safety requirement understanding, Analysis Development and Validation (ADV) plan generation and change management, reliability and confidence application, and thoughtful issue identification through peer review and critical thinking. The successful candidate will be comfortable working with tools such as TcVis, e-Merge, JIRA, JIRA PRTS, VCAM, DFMEA and GDocs approval workflows, while contributing to milestone delivery, compliance documentation, evaluation reports, judgment letters, and technical mentorship to ensure high-quality execution.
What You’ll Do (Responsibilities)
Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)
What Can Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)
Company vehicle: Upon successful completion of a motor vehicle report review, you will be eligible to participate in a company vehicle evaluation program, though which you will be assigned a General Motors vehicle to drive and evaluate. Note: program participants are required to purchase/lease a qualifying GM vehicle every four years unless one of a limited number of exceptions applies.
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This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location at least 3 times a week {or other frequency dictated by their manager}.

The selected candidate will be required to travel <25% for this role.

This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.

The position is subject to export control restrictions and requires the successful candidate to be either a U.S. Person (U.S. citizen, U.S. permanent resident, asylee or refugee) or a non-U.S. Person who is eligible to obtain any required export control authorization.

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