Survivability Strategist - GM Defense (Global)

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.

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