Principal AI Safety Engineer: Technical Lead

General Motors; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the automotive industry seeks an AI Safety Principal Engineer to lead the development of safety strategies for AI/ML in autonomous driving systems. This remote role involves collaborating with partners, enhancing machine learning models, and providing safety expertise to a dynamic team. If you are passionate about AI safety and innovation, this is an exciting opportunity to contribute to impactful projects.

Benefits

Company Vehicle Evaluation Program

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in AI/ML development lifecycle.
• Proven technical leader in AI safety.

Responsibilities

• Train and enhance machine learning models.
• Prototype new AI solutions, including Generative AI.
• Provide guidance using statistical methods.

Skills

Artificial Intelligence

Machine Learning

Statistical Methods

Programming

Job description

Remote: This role is categorized as remote. This means the successful candidate may be based anywhere in the United States and is not expected to report to a GM worksite unless directed by their manager.

Company Vehicle: Upon successful completion of a motor vehicle report review, you will be eligible to participate in a company vehicle evaluation program, through which you will be assigned a General Motors vehicle to drive and evaluate. Note: program participants are required to purchase/lease a qualifying GM vehicle every four years unless one of a limited number of exceptions applies.”

The Role
The AV Safety Strategy and Assessment team is seeking a technical leader with extensive experience in the full end to end development lifecycle for artificial intelligence & machine learning. As the AI Safety Principal Engineer, you will need to stay current on industry best practices and standards and guide the develop of GM’s AI safety strategy. This technical leader role requires extensive programming and statistical techniques to both solve complex problems, provide safety guidance to the engineering development teams that are focused on AI/ML, and assess their work products.

If you're passionate about safety, driving innovation through AI/ML and are a proven technical leader, this role offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to impactful projects in a dynamic team environment.

As the AI/ML Safety Technical Lead, you will be responsible for working with our partners and customers to define safety strategies and targets for AI/ML based autonomous driving systems, understand their challenges and needs, collaborate on new machine learning solutions, assess the safety of existing production models and ML Ops in a cloud environment, collaborate on proof of concepts for new generative AI solutions as well as providing safety expertise and guidance to a team of AI/ML developers.

What You’ll Do

• Train new machine learning models to solve complex business problems.

• Enhance existing machine learning models to increase performance and adapt to our changing business landscape.

• Prototype new AI solutions, including Generative AI, to solve business problems.

• You provide guidance on business problems using statistical methods and can craft ad-hoc reports to share findings and recommendations with business partners.

• Build statistical models that depict company-wide trends.

• Perform testing and validation of data sets.

• Challenge of determining the meaning of data and explaining how various teams and leaders can leverage it to improve and streamline their processes.

• Keeping defined structures in documentation and data and have a large toolset in statistical methodologies to tackle business problems.

This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.