General Motors

Senior Calibration Specialist - SDV

General Motors$90K — $120K *
Aerospace & Defense
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Controls, or Systems Engineering.
  • 5+ years of experience in calibration and embedded software systems.
  • Strong technical curiosity about processor and microcontroller calibration behavior.
  • Ability to interpret technical documentation and calibration guides effectively.
  • Familiarity with embedded systems and low-level software interactions.
  • Strong analytical skills for complex technical systems with attention to detail.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills to engage with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

  • Own and continuously improve processor, microcontroller, and memory infrastructure calibrations.
  • Develop guidance for consistent application of microcontroller calibrations across MCU variants.
  • Perform in-depth analysis of calibration guides and design intent to inform calibration practices.
  • Analyze calibration behavior and dependencies across various environments.
  • Understand low-level software behaviors to support accurate processor and microcontroller operations.
  • Review validation data to make sound calibration adjustments when necessary.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to align calibration decisions with system requirements.

Benefits

  • Relocation assistance for the selected candidate if applicable.
  • Opportunities for hybrid work with a minimum of three days onsite.
  • Potential for career development within a pioneering SDV-focused environment.
  • Access to advanced AI and automation tools to enhance work efficiency.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Work Classification:

Hybrid: The successful candidate is expected to report to Milford, MI three times per week, at minimum, or as dictated by the business.

The Team:

The SDV Infrastructure Calibration Organization owns the delivery of foundational infrastructure calibrations across GM. We ensure platforms, domains, and software systems have the calibration content required to support safe, intelligent, and reliable operation across development, integration, validation, and production environments.

Within that space, processor, microcontroller, and memory calibrations are a critical technical domain. These calibrations influence low-level system behavior, diagnostic monitoring, fault handling, performance, and platform stability. The team works across calibration, embedded software, diagnostics, HWIO, safety, and validation to ensure these calibrations are understood, applied correctly, and improved over time.

We are also driving a more modern approach to infrastructure calibration by using automation, AI-assisted analysis, and scalable workflows to reduce manual work, improve repeatability, and strengthen technical rigor across the SDV ecosystem.

The Role:

We are looking for an SDV Infrastructure Calibration Specialist focused on Processor, Microcontroller, and Memory calibrations. This role will serve as a deep technical owner for micro-related infrastructure calibrations, with responsibility for understanding how the calibrations function, where they apply, how they should be tuned, and how they should evolve across programs and microcontroller contexts.

This person will become a key subject matter expert across MCU0, MCU1, MCU2, and MCU3, developing strong command of calibration intent, dependencies, constraints, and expected behavior. The role requires deep learning, systems thinking, strong technical judgment, and the ability to work across safety, software, diagnostics, validation, and calibration teams to improve both calibration quality and calibration execution.

What You'll Do:

  • Own the technical understanding, execution, and continuous improvement of processor, microcontroller, and memory-related infrastructure calibrations
  • Build strong working knowledge across MCU0, MCU1, MCU2, and MCU3 and develop guidance that drives consistency in how microcontroller calibrations are applied and managed
  • Perform deep dives into calibration guides, requirements, design intent, and technical documentation to understand what calibrations do, why they exist, and where they apply
  • Analyze calibration behavior, dependencies, constraints, anomalies, and program applicability across vehicle, bench, and CoSim environments
  • Learn the HWIO layer and related low-level software behavior to understand how processor and microcontroller systems must be tuned to support correct operation, performance, and stability
  • Review calibration and validation test data, interpret technical results, and recommend sound calibration adjustments when needed
  • Work through calibration decisions with safety and cross-functional stakeholders, balancing technical intent, system requirements, constraints, and program needs
  • Break complex calibration behavior into understandable functional components, identify root causes, and support anomaly correction when issues are discovered
  • Serve as the single source of truth for micro calibrations, including calibration purpose, parameter usage, known issues, program differences, and operating guidance
  • Use AI tools, scripting, structured analysis, and automation to determine how calibrations operate, uncover patterns and relationships, and accelerate technical work
  • Create tools, workflows, and automations that support calibrators, improve repeatability, and reduce manual effort across the micro calibration domain
  • Challenge unnecessary complexity by asking why parameters exist in the first place and identifying opportunities to eliminate, simplify, standardize, or automate calibrations where appropriate
  • Help establish stronger best practices, clearer guidance, and more scalable operating methods across the processor, microcontroller, and memory calibration space


Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications):

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Controls, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field
  • 5+ years of experience in calibration, embedded software, infrastructure software, diagnostics, microcontroller systems, or related automotive technical work
  • Strong technical curiosity and ability to learn complex processor, microcontroller, memory, and infrastructure calibration behavior in depth
  • Experience interpreting technical requirements, design documentation, calibration guides, or system behavior to determine correct application of calibration content
  • Familiarity with embedded systems, low-level software interactions, diagnostics, and microcontroller-based architectures
  • Ability to analyze complex technical systems, compare variants and behaviors, and identify patterns, deltas, dependencies, and root causes
  • Experience reviewing validation or test data and using sound engineering judgment to support technical adjustments and issue resolution
  • Strong attention to detail and ability to manage technical complexity without losing clarity or discipline
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively across calibration, software, safety, validation, and stakeholder teams
  • Ability to work independently, build subject matter expertise, and drive execution in a fast-paced environment


What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

  • Master's degree in engineering, computer science, or a related technical field
  • 8+ years of experience in infrastructure calibration, embedded systems, diagnostics, or SDV-related software environments
  • Experience with processor integrity, memory integrity, microcontroller monitoring, diagnostic calibration, or related low-level infrastructure domains
  • Familiarity with HWIO, low-level software interfaces, communication stacks, or diagnostic frameworks relevant to microcontroller behavior
  • Experience using Python, scripting, AI-assisted analysis, or automation tools to improve calibration understanding, execution, or workflow efficiency
  • Experience supporting calibration consistency across multiple controllers, programs, or variant environments
  • Experience working with safety teams or balancing calibration decisions against technical and system-level safety requirements
  • Experience creating technical guidance, best practices, or automation workflows that improve calibration quality, standardization, and scalability
  • Strong ownership mindset with the ability to become the go-to technical expert in a complex and evolving domain
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}.This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.

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General Motors Company engages in the manufacture and sale of cars and trucks in the United States, China, Brazil, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Italy. It offers sedans, crossovers, sport utility vehicles, pick-up trucks, coupes, sports/convertibles and hybrid vehicles, hatchbacks/wagons, and vans, as well as mini cars in India. The company also provides parts and accessories, such as iPod and MP3 compatibility, mobility accessories, performance parts, AC parts and services, and merchandise. In addition, it offers vehicle safety, security, and information services. The company provides used vehicles. It offers its products through dealers and distributors. General Motors Company was formerly known as NGMCO, Inc. and changed its name to General Motors Company in July 2009. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Detroit, Michigan. It operates manufacturing facilities in India, the United States, and Canada. General Motors Company operates as a subsidiary of the United States Department of The Treasury. General Motors led global vehicle sales for 77 consecutive years from 1931 through 2007, longer than any other automaker, and is currently among the world's largest automakers by vehicle unit sales. General Motors acts in most countries outside the USA via wholly-owned subsidiaries but operates in China through 10 joint ventures. GM's OnStar subsidiary provides vehicle safety, security, and information services. In 2009, General Motors shed several brands, closing Saturn, Pontiac, and Hummer, and emerged from a government-backed Chapter 11 reorganization. In 2010, GM made an initial public offering IPOs to date and returned to profitability later that year.

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