Early-Career AI/ML Researcher — POC & Impact

General Motors; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 128,000 - 279,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Dental

Vision

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Accounts

Retirement savings plan

Life insurance

Paid vacation and holidays

Tuition assistance programs

Employee assistance program

GM vehicle discounts

Job summary

General Motors (GM) R&D in Mountain View, CA seeks an early-career researcher to conduct original AI/ML research that accelerates engineering and product development. This role targets a recent or soon-to-be-completed PhD with depth in causal AI, neurosymbolic AI, world models, or multimodal/generative AI, and requires strong collaboration across disciplines.

You will develop proof-of-concepts (POCs), evaluate them on meaningful engineering problems, communicate findings clearly, and work with

Qualifications

• Pursuit or Completion of a PhD in one of the following areas: Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Computational Science, Engineering, Physics, or a related field
• Able to work fulltime, 40 hours per week
• Demonstrated research depth with dissertations, publications, patents, open-source work, or comparable contributions
• Strong foundations in machine learning and deep learning with related technical foundations

Responsibilities

• Conduct original research in advanced AI areas such as causal AI, neurosymbolic AI, world models, multimodal or generative AI, or engineering agents
• Design, implement, and evaluate ML models and POCs using real or simulated data
• Develop methods that reason about physical systems, uncertainty, and complex interactions
• Build reproducible research code, data-processing workflows, and experiment pipelines
• Collaborate with GM R&D researchers and engineering partners to validate research results and identify practical paths to use

Skills

Python

ML research

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Education

PhD in CS/AI/ML

Tools

Python

PyTorch

JAX

TensorFlow

Job description

General Motors (GM) R&D in Mountain View, CA seeks an early-career researcher to conduct original AI/ML research that accelerates engineering and product development. This role targets a recent or soon-to-be-completed PhD with depth in causal AI, neurosymbolic AI, world models, or multimodal/generative AI, and requires strong collaboration across disciplines.

You will develop proof-of-concepts (POCs), evaluate them on meaningful engineering problems, communicate findings clearly, and work with