Senior AI/ML Engineer - Autonomous Driving & Sensing

Aimlroles; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 182,000 - 251,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Retirement plan

Paid vacation & holidays

GM vehicle discounts

Job summary

General Motors seeks a Senior AI/ML Future Sensing Engineer to develop and evaluate ML solutions for autonomous driving and sensing. You will design perception models, work with cameras, lidar and radar data, and optimize model performance for real-world deployment.

You’ll collaborate with senior engineers and cross-functional teams to translate research into production-ready solutions, contribute to robust evaluation workflows, and help shape sensing architectures for future GM systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Machine Learning, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience applying machine learning techniques to real-world systems or large-scale datasets.
• Experience building AI/ML or perception systems in autonomy, robotics, computer vision, or related domains.
• Proficiency in PyTorch and Python.

Responsibilities

• Develop and improve AI/ML solutions aligned with GM’s autonomous driving and future sensing objectives.
• Apply techniques such as unsupervised pre-training, imitation learning, reinforcement learning, model scaling and selection, and foundation modeling to problems in object detection, tracking, classification, perception, and safe AI.
• Develop and evaluate perception models and components for sensing studies involving cameras, lidar, radar, and multi-modal sensor fusion.
• Implement and evaluate models, incorporating research advancements into practical applications.
• Contribute to model training, fine-tuning, validation, debugging, and performance optimization for perception and sensor-fusion tasks.
• Help define robust metrics for detection, reconstruction, localization support, semantic labeling, and model robustness.
• Work with real and synthetic data to evaluate sensing tradeoffs across weather, lighting, occlusion, sensor noise, clutter, and near-field vs long-range scenarios.
• Contribute to production pipelines and technical workflows spanning data loading, model evaluation, error analysis, and deployment-oriented support.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate models into onboard driving systems and evaluation workflows.
• Participate in code reviews, documentation, and technical discussions to support engineering quality and knowledge sharing.

Skills

PyTorch

Python

ML pipelines

Data processing

NumPy

Pandas

Apache Spark

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS/Robotics/ML/EE

Tools

GPT/LLM tooling

Job description

General Motors seeks a Senior AI/ML Future Sensing Engineer to develop and evaluate ML solutions for autonomous driving and sensing. You will design perception models, work with cameras, lidar and radar data, and optimize model performance for real-world deployment.

You’ll collaborate with senior engineers and cross-functional teams to translate research into production-ready solutions, contribute to robust evaluation workflows, and help shape sensing architectures for future GM systems.