Senior AI/ML Engineer, Autonomy Build Platform

General Motors Ventures; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation benefits

Job summary

General Motors is hiring a Senior Engineer for the Build Platform team, focusing on Python development ecosystem improvements and tooling to boost developer productivity. The role involves guiding cross-functional projects and delivering end-to-end solutions.

You will mentor engineers, participate in interviews, and contribute to roadmap plans. Hybrid work is available with locations across several U.S. offices, and remote options may apply for Seattle-area candidates.

Qualifications

• 3+ years leading large-scale cross-team initiatives.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience.
• Experience working on developer tooling, Python, Docker, etc.
• Experience leading projects across multiple teams.
• Attention to detail and desire to improve processes and systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement improvements to our Python development ecosystem and workflows, with measurable impact on productivity.
• Collaborate with engineers across the company to support development workflows.
• Own technical projects from start to finish and make major technical decisions and tradeoffs.
• Lead complex projects that span teams, with many partners and customers.
• Mentoring and up-leveling other engineers on the team.
• Conduct technical interviews and contribute to recruiting activities.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-team collaboration

Python

Docker

Developer tooling

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Bazel

Buck

Job description

Job Description

This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to the office in [Austin, Detroit, Warren, Milford, Mountain View, Seattle, or Sunnyvale] a minimum of 3 days per week. This position can be considered Remote if the successful candidate is in the Seattle, Washington area.

About Us

The AI Cloud and Developer Infrastructure organization is responsible for delivering and maintaining the tools and services engineers here at GM use every day to do their best work and drive our cars forward. Tools and services we work on enhancing the entire development process of engineers at GM — how/where code is checked out, modified, compiled, tested, merged, and eventually deployed. Our goal is to ensure our AV engineers and others here have world class tools and a seamless development experience so that they can focus on the problems that matter most in their domain.

The Role

We are looking for a Senior Engineer with an extensive engineering background, experience using a variety of developer tools and technologies, and who is passionate about developer productivity. As a leader on this team, we are looking for someone who cares deeply about the technical development of other engineers on the team and can effectively balance the needs and priorities of the business, our users, and the growth of our engineers.

The Team

Build Platform owns creating the build system and tooling that supports our AV and AI developers. We use Bazel in front of an in-house Remote Bazel Executor (RBE) and Content Addressable Storage (CAS) to provide a premier build experience at Cruise. Our team is constantly on the lookout for optimizations and new tooling that improves our product. GM AI developers are heavy users of Python and Docker. The speed at which they can iterate directly impacts the rate at which our AVs improve. The tooling and workflows that Build Platform provides are central to the productivity of our AI developers. Improvements in this space quickly lead to enormous impact for Cruise.

The way this engineer will deliver impact may vary depending on the situation but they will be expected to deliver complete solutions to existing problems from ideation to production and effectively communicate with stakeholders.

What You’ll Do (Responsibilities)

• Design and implement improvements to our Python development ecosystem and workflows, which have a measurable and direct impact on engineering productivity.
• Collaborate with engineers across the company to understand and support their development workflows.
• Own technical projects from start to finish and be responsible for major technical decisions and tradeoffs.
• Lead complex projects that span teams, with many partners and customers.
• Effectively participate in planning, code reviews, and design discussions.
• Contribute impactful projects to the team’s roadmap.
• Thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative work environment where impact is a result of your efforts and where your contribution is highly visible.
• Drive software engineering best practices both within our team and across engineering. Create tooling that encourages and supports these practices.
• Mentoring and up-leveling other engineers on the team.
• Conduct technical interviews with well-calibrated standards and play a crucial role in recruiting activities.
• Be a positive contributor to our team culture.

Minimum Qualifications (Must-Have)

• 3+ years of experience leading and driving large-scale, cross-team initiatives
• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience
• Experience working on developer tooling, Python, docker, etc.
• Experience leading projects across multiple teams
• Attention to detail, and a desire to improve processes & systems around you

• Deep understanding of the business and operational impact for different technology tradeoffs

• Passionate about self-driving technology and its potential impact on the world

Preferred Qualifications (Nice-to-Have)

• 5+ years experience designing, building, and operating production systems at scale in the cloud
• Experience programming with C++ or Go
• Experience with compilers (clang, gcc, nvcc, etc)
• Experience with build systems such as Bazel or Buck
• Experience with cloud infrastructure

Compensation

The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance with applicable state laws. The compensation may not be representative for positions located outside of New York, Colorado, California, or Washington.

• The salary range for this role: is $170,000 to $240,000. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.
• Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.
• Benefits: GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs. Benefit options include medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance programs, employee assistance program, GM vehicle discounts and more.

This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.

About GM

Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.

Why Join Us

We believe we all must make a choice every day - individually and collectively - to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.

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