AV Data Platform Engineering Manager

General Motors; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 210,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Relocation benefits

Job summary

General Motors is seeking an experienced Software Engineering Manager to lead the AV Data Processing and Services team. You will guide a distributed systems and data engineering group building core pipelines and storage backbones for petabyte-scale telemetry used in perception, planning, ML training, and simulation.

You will own the technical strategy, mentor engineers, and optimize cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP) for performance and cost.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering with distributed systems or cloud infra
• 2+ years in formal engineering leadership
• Experience designing and operating petabyte-scale data pipelines and storage systems

Responsibilities

• Lead design, implementation, and delivery while mentoring the team
• Recruit and grow a high-performing software and data engineering team
• Own architectural roadmap for AV Data services and streaming tools
• Optimize cloud compute/storage and costs while maintaining performance
• Establish SLAs, observability, and incident management across data services

Skills

Distributed systems

Big data

Cloud infrastructure

Team leadership

Mentoring

C++, Python, Rust, Go

Education

BS in CS/EE/Math/Physics or equivalent

Tools

Apache Spark

Beam

Kafka

Iceberg/Delta Lake

Presto/Trino

Job description

General Motors is seeking an experienced Software Engineering Manager to lead the AV Data Processing and Services team. You will guide a distributed systems and data engineering group building core pipelines and storage backbones for petabyte-scale telemetry used in perception, planning, ML training, and simulation.

You will own the technical strategy, mentor engineers, and optimize cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP) for performance and cost.