General Motors

Senior Data Scientist, AV and ADAS Insights

General Motors$106K — $192K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a quantitative discipline; master's preferred.
  • 5+ years in data science or product analytics.
  • Expert SQL skills for complex data environments.
  • Strong Python skills for data analysis and visualization.
  • Experience evaluating product performance using observational data.
  • Ability to transform ambiguous questions into actionable insights.
  • Strong communication skills for technical concepts.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with Product Management to inform strategy and decisions through analysis.
  • Maintain trusted KPI frameworks for AV and ADAS metrics.
  • Evaluate product performance across various metrics and user experiences.
  • Build integrated datasets and self-service tools for data access.
  • Investigate trends and data-quality issues with engineering teams.
  • Apply statistical methods to evaluate data and communicate findings.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Accounts.
  • Retirement savings plan.
  • Life insurance and accident benefits.
  • Paid vacation and holidays.
  • Tuition assistance programs.
  • GM vehicle discounts.
Full Job Description
Job Description

The Role

As a Senior Data Scientist, Super Cruise (SC) and Assisted Driving and Active Safety (ADAS) Insights, you will be a hands-on technical and strategic partner to Product Management, Systems Engineering, Data Engineering, Safety, and Program teams. You will turn complex vehicle telemetry, retail-fleet data, engineering data, and customer-behavior signals into trusted metrics, actionable insights, and clear recommendations that shape product strategy and prioritization.

You will help product teams understand feature availability, usage, evaluate feature availability, utilization, safety performance, reliability, customer acceptance, and trust-related behaviors across Super Cruise, advanced autonomy products and ADAS products.

This is a senior individual-contributor role for someone who can independently frame ambiguous problems, develop rigorous analyses, influence decisions without formal authority, and establish analytical practices that scale across the organization.

What You'll Do

  • Partner with Product Management to translate product questions into analyses that inform strategy, roadmaps, requirements, prioritization, investments, and launch decisions.


  • Define and maintain trusted KPI frameworks for AV, Super Cruise and ADAS, including metric definitions, assumptions, data lineage, limitations, baselines, thresholds, and appropriate use of engineering and retail-fleet data.


  • Evaluate product performance across availability, usage, effectiveness, customer value, and experience, identifying drivers, tradeoffs, risks, opportunities, regressions, and regional or population-level differences.


  • Build integrated datasets, models, dashboards, scorecards, recurring reports, and self-service tools that connect vehicle, driver, safety-event, trip, crash, and operating-context data to support ongoing monitoring and action.


  • Investigate unexpected trends and data-quality issues, partnering with engineering and data teams to address gaps in signals, triggers, decoding, sampling, instrumentation, and data availability.


  • Apply sound statistical and causal-inference methods to vehicle data, evaluations, feature rollouts, and constrained experiments, and communicate findings and recommendations effectively across technical teams, cross-functional forums, and senior leadership.


How You'll Make an Impact

  • Product teams use a common, trusted view of performance rather than disconnected or conflicting analyses.


  • Retail-fleet data becomes a practical input to product strategy, release decisions, regional expansion, and engineering prioritization.


  • High-value customer and safety problems are quantified, ranked, and connected to specific product or engineering actions.


  • Product teams can distinguish true performance changes from changes in data coverage, instrumentation, fleet mix, software releases, or analytical definitions.


  • New metrics and data use cases are developed with appropriate privacy, access-control, regulatory, and data-retention considerations.


  • Decision-makers receive clear narratives that explain what changed, why it matters, what is uncertain, and what should happen next.


Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

  • Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, Economics, or a related quantitative discipline, or equivalent practical experience. A master's degree is preferred.


  • 5 or more years of experience in data science, product analytics, applied statistics, or a closely related field.


  • Expert-level SQL skills and strong experience working with large, complex, evolving data environments.


  • Strong Python skills for data preparation, exploratory analysis, statistical analysis, visualization, automation, and reproducible analytical workflows.


  • Demonstrated experience defining metrics, validating datasets, identifying data-quality issues, and explaining analytical limitations.


  • Experience using observational data to evaluate product performance, customer behavior, feature adoption, reliability, safety, or operational outcomes.


  • Demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous product or business questions into rigorous analysis and actionable recommendations.


  • Experience influencing product roadmaps, prioritization, investment decisions, launch decisions, or requirements through data and analysis.


  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts and uncertainty to non-technical stakeholders.


  • Ability to operate with substantial autonomy, exercise sound judgment, and deliver results across multiple teams without direct reporting authority.


What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

  • Experience working with automotive, connected-vehicle, ADAS, autonomous-driving, robotics, mobility, or other safety-critical products, including vehicle telemetry, sensor and fleet data, operational statistics, event recording, and driver-assistance systems such as Super Cruise.


  • Experience with Databricks, Spark, Azure, GCP, Power BI, Tableau, Looker, or comparable data and visualization platforms.


  • Experience with metric catalogs, data contracts, data governance, instrumentation strategy, data sampling, human labeling, or analytical quality standards.


  • Experience with causal inference, quasi-experimental methods, rollout analysis, survival or reliability analysis, hierarchical modeling, or other methods appropriate for real-world product data.


  • Experience working with privacy, legal, regulatory, or data-access constraints in the development of customer or vehicle-data use cases.


What Success Looks Like in the First 12 Months

  • Establish a trusted analytical partnership with SC Product Management and Systems Engineering.


  • Deliver a prioritized set of SC performance insights that directly informs roadmap or investment decisions.


  • Improve the definition, validation, or usability of key SC topline and trust-eroding-behavior metrics.


  • Establish repeatable release-over-release and retail-fleet performance analyses for agreed priority metrics.


  • Contribute analytical evidence to at least one launch, regional expansion, or major software-release decision.


  • Identify material gaps in data, instrumentation, sampling, or metric quality and drive practical resolutions with partner teams.


  • Create reusable analytical assets that reduce ad hoc work and improve product-team self-service.


  • Extend the approach to one or more Active Safety or Assisted Driving use cases.


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

Compensation: 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 $106,600 to $192,700. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.

Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.

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.

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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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