Senior State Estimation Engineer - Localization

About the role

The Senior State Estimation Engineer within the SEAM Embodied AI organization plays a pivotal role in designing, architecting, and deploying advanced systems for purposes including pinpointing the vehicle’s location in the world, and calibrating parameters of all sensors to ensure they optimally support many other vehicle subsystems. Your role is crucial in leading critical technical initiatives, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, mentoring engineers across the organization, and significantly shaping the future of onboard autonomous driving capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Drive the design, development, and deployment of advanced solutions for state estimation, localization, sensor calibration and more.
• Lead and architect complex projects, from conception through validation to onboard implementation, emphasizing scalability, robustness, and safety-critical operation.
• Drive innovation in vehicle motion estimation, determination of vehicle pose in global maps, multi-sensor self-calibration in unstructured environments, state estimation architectures, and fault tolerance strategies suited for real-time onboard deployment.
• Provide technical mentorship and thought leadership, elevating engineering practices, and fostering innovation across teams.
• Collaborate closely with multidisciplinary engineering groups, ensuring seamless integration of localization, sensor alignment, and other capabilities into autonomous vehicle systems.
• Influence technical roadmaps, shaping strategic priorities aligned with company objectives and product milestones.

Requirements

Master's or Ph.D. in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field. 5+ years of extensive experience developing and deploying advanced state estimation and/or sensor calibration systems, particularly in real-time onboard applications. Proven track record as a technical leader and expert in state estimation, localization and/or sensor calibration, operating on a wide variety of sensor inputs to perform robustly within safety-critical systems. Strong software engineering proficiency, particularly in C++ and Python, alongside extensive hands-on experience with development, integration, and testing tools. Excellent communication, collaboration, and mentoring abilities, comfortable influencing technical strategy and guiding engineering excellence across the organization. Bonus: AV/ADAS experience is a big plus.

Qualifications

Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to the assigned office three times per week, at minimum.

Pay

The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance with applicable state laws. The compensation may not be representative for positions located outside of the California Bay Area. The salary range for this role is $170,600.00 to $261,300.00. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.

Schedule

This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to the assigned office three times per week, at minimum.

Benefits

Benefits: GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs. Benefit options include medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance programs, employee assistance program, GM vehicle discounts and more.