2027 Intern - AI/ML Engineer - Capacity & Performance Engineering, Autonomous Vehicles

General Motors; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 107,000 - 132,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid GM Holidays

Vehicle Discount Program

Growth opportunities

Intern networking events

Job summary

General Motors in Sunnyvale, California, invites interns to contribute to the Capacity Intelligence program. The role focuses on integrating new capabilities and building scalable infrastructure, with a mix of coding and collaboration across teams.

The internship is hybrid, reporting to the office up to three times per week. You will work on Model Training, Simulation and data generation, gaining exposure to AI/ML infrastructure and capacity planning.

Qualifications

• Enrolled in a full-time, degree-seeking program and pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's in CS or related field.
• Experience in systems software or algorithms.
• Experience with Python and SQL (BigQuery).
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop scalable infrastructure, tools and insights to support Model Training, Simulation, CI Build and Data Generation insights with the capacity intelligence program.
• Code deliverables in tandem with the engineering team.
• Perform specific responsibilities which vary by team.

Skills

Java

C++

Python

SQL

BigQuery

Communication

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Master's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Spark

Ray

Kubernetes

Slurm

Job description

Work Arrangement

Hybrid: This internship is categorized as a hybrid. The selected intern is expected to report to the office up to three times per week or as determined by the team.

Location

Sunnyvale, California

About the Team

The AV / AI Capacity & Performance Engineering team helps provide the right compute, networking, storage, and AI infrastructure to support AI and ML innovation supporting a wide range of use cases across teams such as Embodied AI, Simulation, Data Science, and more. The team builds capacity models, improves cloud efficiency, supports vendor planning, and develops tooling that makes capacity, demand, utilization, reliability, and cost visible to engineering stakeholders.

Our Capacity Intelligence system is being developed as the team’s operational interface and single point of truth for capacity intake, cloud spending, budget pacing, quota and queue analysis, egress forecasting, and related capacity insights. It is being expanded to incorporate new cloud providers and provide advanced modeling capabilities.

Our tools and systems empower GM to tackle the complexities of autonomous driving technology and expedite our path to commercialization.

About the Role

As an intern, you will help develop and optimize our capacity intelligence system with a focus on integrating new capabilities.

What You’ll Do

• Develop scalable infrastructure, tools and insights to support Model Training, Simulation, CI Build and Data Generation insights with the capacity intelligence program.
• Code deliverables in tandem with the engineering team.
• Perform specific responsibilities which vary by team.

Required Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in a full-time, degree-seeking program and in the process of obtaining a Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science or a related technical field.
• Experience in systems software or algorithms.
• Experience with modern object-oriented programming languages (e.g., Java,C++, Python). Experience coding in Python.
• Experience with SQL, BigQuery
• Strong communication skills with experience collaborating across cross-functional teams.
• Able to work full-time, 40 hours per week.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated software engineer experience via an internship, work experience, coding competitions.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted engineering tools (e.g., for code generation, model analysis, or experiment planning).
• Demonstrated creativity and quick problem-solving capabilities.
• Research and/or work experience in machine learning infrastructure.
• Experience with distributed systems (e.g., Spark, Ray, Kubernetes, Slurm).
• Experience in scheduling algorithms, orchestration or compute.
• Intent to return to degree-program after internship.
• Graduating between December 2027 and August 2028.

Compensation

• The monthly salary range for this role is $9,600 - $11,800 per month.
• GM will provide a one-time lump sum taxable stipend payment to eligible students selected for the 2027 Student Program.

What You’ll Get from Us (Benefits)

• Paid US GM Holidays
• GM Family First Vehicle Discount Program
• Result-based potential for growth within GM
• Intern events to network with company leaders and peers

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.

Benefits Overview

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