Lead Data Scientist Statistician – AV Safety Data Analysis (GPSSC)

Employment Type

Full time

Job Description

Work Arrangement: Remote: This role is categorized as remote. This means the successful candidate may be based anywhere in the United States and is not expected to report to a GM worksite unless directed by their manager.

Company Vehicle: Upon successful completion of a motor vehicle report review, you will be eligible to participate in a company vehicle evaluation program, through 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.

The Role

The Lead Data Science Statistician – AV Safety Data Analysis will drive the statistical methods used to development and evaluation of autonomous vehicle (AV) performance safety metrics ranging from straightforward to advanced machine learning outputs. This position is part of the Safety Assurance for Effective Autonomous Driving Software (SAFE-ADS) department in the Global Product Safety, System, and Certification (GPSSC) organization. The SAFE-ADS department serves as the central body for automated driving system (ADS) safety. GM’s vision is zero crashes, zero emissions, and zero congestion – AV safety is at the heart of driving forward this vision. If you seek to solve complex data science challenges and see your work drive positive safety change, this role is for you.

The ideal candidate will be an expert in data science, statistical modeling, and data development across the entire data maturity curve. They will have experience in automotive, safety, and/or robotic industries and understand how to integrate physics and engineering into the foundational statistical methods and approaches. The technical leader is a self-starter and comfortable solving ambiguous problems. They are passionate about data and creating valuable insights that drive continuous safety improvements and confidence in the system.

As a technical leader in the SAFE-ADS data science team, you will provide robust statistical expertise and guidance, weigh alternatives, and explain the different approaches to senior leaders. You will address safety assurance related questions related to ADS behavioral performance and validation. This role involves working with large-scale data generated by the ADS system. One of the key elements is to scale data science work and accelerating time-to-delivery in insights which requires the integration of physics and engineering principles. As a leader, you'll play a key role in defining and advancing GM's AV quantitative measurement and risk assessment efforts. Your work will contribute to enhancing and scaling our existing safety risk assessment framework and help to ensure coverage of our operational design domain, foundational components of the overall safety case that guides decision-making and drives engineering across the entire AV technology stack.

What You’ll Do (Responsibilities)

• Develop and standardize best practices of statistical estimations and uncertainty model for use in ADS safety risk assessment framework
• Work with the team to develop and implement scalable ADS performance measurement solutions to help ensure safe and compliant on-road behavior and build confidence in the results
• Use an iterative method of development to share early results, identify emerging risks, and provide ongoing guidance
• Assess bias estimation and subsampling strategies used by system engineering
• Support Data Engineering and Software & Services (S&S) in the develop and automate pipelines and tooling of the measurement and risk framework
• Conduct statistical analysis to evaluate ADS driving software
• Aggregate measures
• Raise the bar for on-road safety by continuously improving safety and AV measurement, and developing a feedback loop for software improvements
• Collaborate across various AV development teams, including GPSSC, S&S, Data Engineering, and Legal