Senior AI/ML Engineer: Sensing & Autonomy (Remote)

Sundayy; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance and benefits

Retirement plans

Paid time off

Tuition assistance

Employee assistance programs

GM vehicle discounts

Job summary

General Motors seeks a Staff AI/ML Future Sensing Engineer to advance autonomous driving sensing capabilities. You will lead end-to-end ML efforts for sensor selection, fusion, and deployment, guiding perception models across cameras, lidar, and radar.

This senior role emphasizes technical leadership and hands-on execution. You’ll influence perception architectures, collaborate cross-functionally, and drive scalable data pipelines, model training, and validation for real-world scenarios.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, ML, Electrical Engineering or related fields
• Proven experience building and scaling AI/ML systems for perception, autonomy, or robotics
• Hands-on with PyTorch and Python programming
• Experience with model training pipelines and large-scale data workflows
• Strong data processing skills with NumPy, Pandas, Spark
• Ability to validate and optimize perception models under real-world constraints
• Experience with multi-modal sensor fusion (cameras, lidar, radar)
• Ability to define and implement metrics for perception and autonomous systems
• Excellent communication for cross-functional collaboration
• Experience deploying ML models into production environments

Responsibilities

• Design and implement AI/ML solutions aligned with autonomous driving and sensing objectives
• Lead studies on sensor selection, configuration, and fusion strategies
• Architect perception models and pipelines for detection, tracking, localization, labeling, and uncertainty estimation
• Define robust metrics to compare sensor configurations and assess system performance
• Drive model development: data curation, training, validation, and deployment
• Collaborate with simulation teams to create synthetic data and sensor models
• Integrate sensing, calibration, compute, and software architecture into system design
• Translate architecture questions into experimental plans and recommendations
• Build scalable data processing pipelines and tooling for large-scale evaluation
• Lead technical execution from prototype to production and document best practices
• Mentor teams to foster technical excellence and knowledge sharing

Skills

Python

PyTorch

Data pipelines

Sensor fusion

ML deployment

Communication

Cross-functional teamwork

Problem solving

Education

CS/Robotics/EE degree

Tools

NumPy

Pandas

Apache Spark

Job description

General Motors seeks a Staff AI/ML Future Sensing Engineer to advance autonomous driving sensing capabilities. You will lead end-to-end ML efforts for sensor selection, fusion, and deployment, guiding perception models across cameras, lidar, and radar.

This senior role emphasizes technical leadership and hands-on execution. You’ll influence perception architectures, collaborate cross-functionally, and drive scalable data pipelines, model training, and validation for real-world scenarios.