Survivability Strategist - GM Defense

Description
The Role
GM Defense delivers integrated vehicles, power and propulsion, and autonomy and connectivity solutions for global defense, security, and government customers. By leveraging GM's advanced commercial vehicle platforms, engineering expertise, and large-scale manufacturing, GM Defense rapidly adapts proven technologies into military-grade, mission-ready solutions that help customers improve mobility, readiness, and sustainment while managing cost and complexity.
The Survivability Strategist is an individual contributor role responsible for defining the survivability strategy and roadmap for GM Defense in alignment with mission needs, customer expectations, and program objectives. This role determines the survivability capabilities, technical approaches, manufacturing strategies, and enabling workstreams required to build an enduring enterprise capability, including what work should be developed in-house, what should be outsourced, what partnerships should be established, and what design, material, manufacturing, and analysis standards are needed to support execution. The role leads the development of survivability concepts, requirements, trade studies, and integration recommendations to ensure survivability considerations are built into product architecture, design, and validation from the outset.
What You'll Do

• Define the survivability strategy and roadmap for GM Defense in support of mission requirements, threat environments, customer expectations, and long-term business objectives
• Determine which survivability capabilities, analyses, tools, and technical workstreams should be developed in-house versus outsourced
• Identify, evaluate, and help establish external partnerships needed to build and scale survivability capability
• Develop and institutionalize survivability design best practices, material guidelines, manufacturing methods, and technical standards for use across programs
• Guide development of survivability-related requirements, design criteria, technical recommendations, and integration approaches across the product
• Lead trade studies to balance survivability, weight, performance, cost, manufacturability, and program timing
• Support development of survivability analysis methods, assessment approaches, and validation strategies to strengthen technical decision-making
• Work cross-functionally with engineering, manufacturing, integration, validation, supply chain, and program teams to embed survivability into product development
• Support identification and assessment of vulnerabilities, failure modes, and integration risks related to survivability
• Serve as a technical point of contact for survivability strategy and implementation with internal stakeholders, partners, and customers as needed

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• BSE, BS in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Systems Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 10+ years professional experience in survivability-related engineering, strategy development, product integration, or equivalent technical roles
• Demonstrates effective interpersonal and communication skills to collaborate successfully with internal stakeholders, customers, suppliers, and external partners
• Strong understanding of survivability-related engineering principles, including design tradeoffs, material behavior, manufacturing strategies, and analysis methods
• Proven ability to define technical strategy and roadmap, including decisions on in-house development, outsourcing, partnerships, and enterprise capability build-out
• Demonstrated ability to lead trade studies that balance survivability, weight, performance, cost, manufacturability, and program timing
• Strong analytical ability to identify vulnerabilities, assess technical risk, and develop design, material, manufacturing, and analysis standards to support execution
• Demonstrated technical and professional skills in survivability-related product development, technical integration, and cross-functional decision-making
• Ability to translate mission and threat-based needs into clear survivability requirements, practical engineering guidance, and executable technical recommendations
• Candidate must be a U.S. Person (U.S. citizen, U.S. permanent resident, asylee or refugee).

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.
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 actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position, as well as geography of the selected candidate. • The salary range for this role is $134,700 - 207,600. 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: • 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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This role is based remotely, but if the selected candidate lives within a specific mile radius of a GM hub, they will be expected to report to the location three times a week {or other frequency dictated by your manager}.
The selected candidate will be required to travel <25% for this role.
This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.
The position is subject to export control restrictions and requires the successful candidate to be a U.S. Person (U.S. citizen, U.S. permanent resident, asylee or refugee)
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