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General Motors
Austin, Texas, United States of America; Austin Technical Center - Austin Technical Center; Warren, Michigan, United States of America
Source: General Motors careers · View original posting
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Job Description
This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Warren Global Technical Center or Austin Technical Center three times per week, at minimum [or other frequency dictated by the business if more than 3 days].
The Privacy by Design Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and operationalizing privacy controls that embed privacy, data protection, and regulatory compliance into enterprise data platforms, analytics solutions, AI systems, digital products, and vehicle technologies. This role serves as a technical practitioner within a dedicated Privacy Engineering function, ensuring privacy requirements are incorporated early, consistently, and at scale throughout the software development lifecycle.
The engineer collaborates closely with Legal, Privacy, Cybersecurity, Data Governance, Product, and Vehicle Engineering teams to translate regulatory obligations, corporate policies, and privacy risk requirements into practical, reusable technical controls and engineering solutions. This role focuses on building privacy capabilities that enable the compliant use of personal, sensitive, and regulated data while minimizing risk, improving audit readiness, and supporting innovation.
Vehicle Data Scope
This role explicitly includes responsibility for privacy-by-design implementations involving vehicle-generated data and vehicle software systems. The Privacy by Design Engineer partners with vehicle engineering, embedded software, connected vehicle, and systems engineering teams to ensure privacy requirements are incorporated throughout vehicle development processes. This includes designing privacy controls for vehicle identifiers, telemetry, diagnostics, customer data, sensor data, connected services, and downstream data ecosystems.
The role supports the complete vehicle data lifecycle—from in-vehicle data generation and collection through cloud ingestion, analytics, AI processing, data sharing, retention, and disposal—ensuring privacy protections are engineered into vehicle platforms and services from the outset.
Experience implementing privacy engineering, security engineering, or governance solutions in enterprise environments.
Familiarity with global privacy regulations and frameworks including GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and similar data protection requirements.
Experience with cloud platforms, enterprise data platforms, analytics ecosystems, and API architectures.
Experience supporting AI, machine learning, or data platform solutions with embedded governance controls.
Experience with connected vehicle, automotive software, or embedded engineering environments.
Knowledge of privacy-enhancing technologies, consent management, and data lifecycle management practices.
This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.
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 expected base compensation for this role is: $171,700 - $220,500. Actual base compensation within the identified 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.
GM DOES NOT PROVIDE IMMIGRATION-RELATED SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE. DO NOT APPLY FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU WILL NEED GM IMMIGRATION SPONSORSHIP NOW OR IN THE FUTURE. THIS INCLUDES DIRECT COMPANY SPONSORSHIP, ENTRY OF GM AS THE IMMIGRATION EMPLOYER OF RECORD ON A GOVERNMENT FORM, AND ANY WORK AUTHORIZATION REQUIRING A WRITTEN SUBMISSION OR OTHER IMMIGRATION SUPPORT FROM THE COMPANY (e.g., H-1B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc.)




 About GM
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We believe we all must make a choice every day – individually and collectively – to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.
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