Senior Vehicle Motion Controls Platform Engineer – Steering or Suspension

About the role

At General Motors, the Vehicle Motion Controls and Estimation (VMCC) Platform Design team develops reusable vehicle-motion control and estimation solutions for future vehicle platforms. This role provides technical leadership in either the steering-controls domain or the suspension and vertical-motion-controls domain, depending on the position. The steering focus includes electric power steering (EPS), steer-by-wire, and active rear steering. The suspension focus includes semi-active and active suspension and vertical vehicle motion. In either focus area, you will own the technical domain while helping develop a scalable VMCC platform that supports multiple vehicle configurations, actuator technologies, operating modes, and driver modes. This role is designed for an experienced automotive controls engineer from a leading OEM or Tier 1 supplier who can lead work from vehicle-dynamics analysis through control-architecture and algorithm design and into production software, calibration, and vehicle validation.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end controls design for either the steering or suspension/vertical-motion domain.
• Develop reusable control and estimation algorithms that translate vehicle-level motion objectives into actuator commands while accounting for system constraints, operating modes, and degraded operation.
• For steering-focused positions, develop controls for EPS, steer-by-wire, and active rear steering, including steering response, driver feedback, desired-state and trajectory tracking, disturbance rejection, mode transitions, and fault-tolerant or degraded operation.
• For suspension-focused positions, develop controls for adaptive and active suspension, including ride, handling, body-motion, wheel-motion, roll, pitch, and heave objectives.
• Define platform interfaces, control ownership, actuator coordination, arbitration, and technology-specific extensions that scale across vehicle configurations.
• Develop vehicle-motion state estimators, observers, sensor-processing and sensor-fusion methods, system-identification approaches, and parameter-estimation techniques that support robust controls performance.
• Coordinate with braking, propulsion, rear-steering, and other chassis domains to deliver cohesive vehicle-motion behavior.
• Translate vehicle-dynamics, ride, handling, stability, comfort, and controllability objectives into control requirements, performance metrics, algorithms, and calibration strategies.
• Use model-based development, vehicle-dynamics simulation, hardware-in-the-loop (HIL), driver-in-the-loop (DiL), and in-vehicle testing to design, calibrate, verify, and validate controls.
• Implement algorithms in production-oriented embedded software and support requirements development, interface definition, design reviews, diagnostics, and software-release activities.
• Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, resolve cross-functional issues, and communicate design decisions across controls, software, systems, calibration, test, and program teams.