Principal Engineer - AI-Driven Developer Platforms

Jobtailor; Missouri; On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Principal Engineer to set and lead the technical strategy for platform tooling, CI/CD, and AI-enabled development across the organization. You will mentor teams, drive adoption of golden paths, and shape reference architectures.

This role requires deep systems thinking, strong communication, and a track record of delivering scalable distributed systems. Based in the United States, Missouri, you will partner with product, security, and infrastructure leaders to

Qualifications

• Proven experience as Principal Engineer or senior technical leader.
• Strong systems thinking and product mindset.
• Experience integrating AI/ML into engineering workflows or rapid ramp-up ability.
• Technical leadership without formal authority, mentoring and roadmaps.
• Excellent communication skills.
• 10+ years in software development, with senior-level roles.
• Proficiency in at least one modern language (Java/Go/C#/Python/TypeScript).
• Experience designing and operating distributed systems and CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on with developer platforms and SDLC tooling (GitHub/GitLab, Jira/ADO, artifacts, secrets, feature flags).
• Must not require GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future.

Responsibilities

• Set and lead technical strategy for platforms, tools, and workflows improving productivity.
• Define and drive adoption of golden paths for repo structure, CI/CD, testing, security.
• Build automation and self-service capabilities reducing manual toil.
• Lead AI embedding into engineering workflows (agents, copilots).
• Partner with product, security, infrastructure to translate pain points into improvements.
• Mentor engineers across IT on engineering practices and AI-assisted development.
• Define and own outcome-focused engineering metrics.
• Shape and govern engineering standards and reference architectures.

Skills

Technical leadership

AI/ML integration

CI/CD design

Distributed systems

Software development

Mentoring engineers

Communication skills

Systems thinking

Product mindset

Cross-team alignment

Modern languages

Developer tooling

Tools

GitHub

GitLab

Jira

ADO

CI/CD systems

Artifact repositories

Secrets management

Feature flags

Job description

General Motors is seeking a Principal Engineer to set and lead the technical strategy for platform tooling, CI/CD, and AI-enabled development across the organization. You will mentor teams, drive adoption of golden paths, and shape reference architectures.

This role requires deep systems thinking, strong communication, and a track record of delivering scalable distributed systems. Based in the United States, Missouri, you will partner with product, security, and infrastructure leaders to