Staff Software Engineer — AI for Developer Productivity

General Motors; Markham; Hybrid; CAD 147,000 - 197,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Life insurance

Defined Contribution Pension

GM Vehicle Purchase Plan

Job summary

General Motors of Canada seeks a Staff Software Engineer to lead AI-enabled tooling across embedded software development. You will shape production AI capabilities, collaborating with CI/CD, virtualization, and calibration teams to deliver scalable, reliable tooling that boosts developer productivity.

This hybrid role emphasizes independent leadership, broad influence, and delivery of high-value AI solutions. A competitive CAD salary and GM benefits support work-life balance and career growth.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS, Software Engineering, Electrical/Computer Engineering or related field.
• 10+ years of software engineering, developer tooling, or ML/AI related experience.
• Proficient in Python and at least one other engineering tooling language.
• Experience designing and deploying AI models in production environments.
• Proven ability applying AI/LLM approaches to engineering problems.
• Strong fundamentals in software engineering, APIs, data flows, and production operations.
• Experience integrating AI into enterprise engineering tools or CI/CD systems.
• Experience with cloud services, containers, and orchestration.
• Strong cybersecurity awareness and responsible AI practices.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to influence technically without formal authority.

Responsibilities

• Define the technical vision for AI-powered developer productivity across engineering tools.
• Design, develop, and deploy AI-powered solutions to reduce manual effort and accelerate issue resolution.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to identify high-value AI use cases and translate them into scalable products.
• Integrate AI capabilities into engineering tools and automation platforms to improve reliability and adoption.
• Lead architecture and implementation decisions for AI systems including security, observability, and enterprise integration.
• Drive productionization of AI in GM engineering environments including cloud services and CI/CD.
• Establish standards for responsible AI usage in engineering tools.

Skills

Python

AI systems

Software architecture

Communications

Cross-functional leadership

DevOps

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Master’s degree or PhD in CS/Software/ML (preferred)

Job description

Vacancy Status

No: This posting is not for an existing vacancy within the organization and is open to new applications. (New Head Count)

Job Description

AI Disclosure

As part of the application process, Artificial Intelligence will be used in the hiring process for this role.

Hybrid

This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Markham three times per week, at minimum.

The role

We are seeking a highly skilled Staff Software Engineer to join the Virtualization & Embedded Software Development Tools organization. In this role, you will apply artificial intelligence to improve developer productivity, modernize engineering workflows, and advance toolchain capabilities across embedded software development. You will shape and deliver practical, production-grade AI capabilities that help engineers build, test, analyze, troubleshoot, and support complex software systems more effectively at scale. This role is ideal for a recognized technical expert who thrives in ambiguity, works independently with broad latitude, influences key technical decisions, and leads large cross-functional efforts with broad visibility. You will partner across CI/CD, virtualization, systems engineering, calibration, platform, and software development teams to identify high-value opportunities and turn them into scalable solutions that improve engineering throughput, reliability, and user experience. Our organization supports the end-to-end engineering toolchain that enables teams to define, develop, validate, calibrate, and release embedded software and systems. That includes engineering tools, build and test workflows, dashboards, automation, integrations, and engineering support platforms. As part of this team, you will help define how AI can be used responsibly and effectively in real engineering environments to improve speed, quality, and user experience.

What You’ll Do

• Define the technical vision for AI-powered developer productivity capabilities across engineering tools and workflows
• Design, develop, and deliver AI-powered solutions that reduce manual effort, accelerate issue resolution, and improve software quality across development, debugging, test analysis, issue triage, documentation, and engineering support workflows
• Partner with cross-functional teams to identify high-value AI use cases and translate them into scalable products, platforms, and reusable capabilities
• Integrate AI-powered capabilities into engineering tools, workflows, and automation platforms in ways that improve reliability, usability, and adoption
• Lead architecture and implementation decisions for AI systems spanning model access, orchestration, retrieval, evaluation, observability, security, and enterprise integration
• Drive productionization of AI capabilities within GM engineering environments, including cloud-hosted services, internal platforms, CI/CD systems, and developer tools
• Establish technical standards and best practices for responsible use of AI in engineering tools, including quality, traceability, maintainability, and cybersecurity considerations
• Serve as a subject matter expert and technical leader across organizational boundaries, influencing roadmaps, solution direction, and implementation priorities
• Mentor engineers on AI system design, prompt and workflow design, evaluation strategies, and toolchain integration without formal people-leader responsibility
• Present strategy, progress, recommendations, and demonstrations to technical leaders and partner organizations

Your Skills And Abilities (required Qualifications)

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, developer tooling, platform engineering, machine learning engineering, applied AI, or a closely related field
• Strong expertise building and shipping production software systems, with proficiency in Python and at least one additional language used in engineering tooling environments.
• Proven experience designing, developing, and deploying agentic AI models and autonomous, tool-using AI systems in production environments.
• Demonstrated expertise applying AI and LLM-based approaches to engineering problems such as code analysis, workflow automation, knowledge retrieval, summarization, troubleshooting, or developer productivity support
• Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, system design, APIs, data flows, observability, and production operations
• Experience integrating AI-powered capabilities into enterprise platforms, engineering tools, or CI/CD systems
• Experience with cloud services, containerization, and orchestration technologies
• Strong knowledge of secure engineering practices and responsible AI guardrails
• Demonstrated success leading technically ambiguous, cross-functional efforts from concept through production deployment
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence technical direction across teams without formal authority
• Experience with developer platforms, build systems, testing systems, or internal engineering tools
• Experience balancing fast experimentation with production reliability, maintainability, and compliance

What Can Give You a Competitive Edge (preferred Qualifications)

• Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Machine Learning, AI, or a related field
• Experience in embedded software development, automotive software, systems engineering, or safety-related toolchains
• Experience with CI/CD platforms, build and test orchestration, and software quality automation
• Familiarity with GM engineering tools, engineering workflows, or internal platform environments
• Experience building AI assistants, coding agents, or domain-specific AI capabilities for engineers
• Experience with knowledge systems, vector search, ranking, workflow orchestration, or code intelligence platforms
• Experience supporting large engineering communities through reusable tools, templates, and automation
• Experience evaluating AI quality in production systems using measurable outcomes such as acceptance rate, time saved, precision and recall, hallucination reduction, or workflow completion rate
• Experience designing retrieval-augmented or tool-using AI workflows
• Experience integrating AI into GitHub-based engineering workflows or related enterprise automation pipelines

Why join us

This is an opportunity to shape how AI is applied in real-world engineering environments at scale. You will work on high-value problems at the intersection of developer productivity, toolchain modernization, automation, CI/CD, observability, and embedded software development. Your work will help engineering teams move faster, reduce friction, improve quality, and unlock new capabilities across a critical part of GM’s software development ecosystem. You will join a team that is actively modernizing and scaling core engineering toolchains, including CI/CD robustness, workflow automation, dashboarding and observability, configuration and calibration workflows, and platform evolution. This role offers the opportunity to turn promising AI concepts into reliable, enterprise-ready capabilities that deliver measurable value.

Compensation

The salary range for this role is $147,000to $196,600. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position. 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

Benefits

The goal of the General Motors of Canada total rewards program is to support the health and well-being of you and your family. Our comprehensive compensation plan currently includes the following benefits, in addition to many others:

• Paid time off including vacation days, holidays, and supplemental benefits for pregnancy, parental and adoption leave.
• Healthcare, dental and vision benefits including health care spending account and wellness incentive.
• Life insurance plans to cover you and your family.
• Company and matching contributions to a Defined Contribution Pension plan to help you save for retirement.
• GM Vehicle Purchase Plan for you, your family, and friends.

About GM

Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.

Why Join Us

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.

Non-Discrimination and Equal Employment Opportunities

General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of unlawful discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that providing an inclusive workplace creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers.

Accommodations

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