Senior Feature Engineer

General Motors Company; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Job summary

General Motors, Mountain View, CA, is seeking a Senior Feature Engineer for the Data & Feature Engineering team. Responsible for designing, building, and operating a governed feature platform and shared infrastructure to enable reliable, reusable features for ML models.

You will translate data into production-grade features, optimize pipelines, and collaborate with data scientists and platform teams. Hybrid work model and emphasis on data quality and governance are key aspects.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in feature engineering, data engineering, or ML engineering roles.
• Strong hands-on Databricks, Spark clusters, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog experience.
• Proficient in Python for data pipelines and feature transformations.
• Strong SQL skills for complex data transformation and optimization.
• Experience with CI/CD for data/ML pipelines and data quality practices.
• Understanding of ML workflows and feature quality impact on models.
• Git and collaborative software development practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable feature engineering pipelines for ML model development and production inference.
• Build feature transformation logic across large, distributed datasets in Python, SQL, and Spark.
• Develop and operate pipelines within Databricks and Delta Lake environments.
• Collaborate with data scientists to translate modeling requirements into reusable features.
• Establish a feature store with versioning, train/serve parity, and governance.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines for feature and data code with automated testing and rollback.
• Define data quality checks for completeness, freshness, schema validation, and drift detection.
• Optimize Spark/Databricks jobs for performance, cost, and reliability.
• Document feature definitions, lineage, and pipeline architecture for reproducibility.
• Ensure features integrate with upstream data sources and downstream ML platforms.

Skills

Python

SQL

Pandas

PySpark

Data modeling

CI/CD

Data quality checks

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Databricks

Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

Spark

Git

Job description

Job Description

The Role:

General Motors is seeking a highly motivated and qualified candidate for the position of Senior Feature Engineer on our Data & Feature Engineering team. This team builds the shared feature store, governance model, and platform tooling that power advanced analytics and machine learning solutions aimed at improving product reliability and performance.

As a Senior Feature Engineer, you will lead the design, development, and operation of our governed feature platform, the shared infrastructure, standards, and tooling that domain teams use to define, certify, and serve reusable features for product analytics. This role sits at the intersection of data engineering and applied ML translating raw, high-volume data into reliable, reusable, production-grade features that data scientists and ML engineers can trust.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable feature engineering pipelines for ML/AI model development and production inference
• Build and manage feature transformation logic using Python, SQL, and Apache Spark across large, distributed datasets
• Develop and operate feature pipelines within Databricks (notebooks, jobs, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog)
• Collaborate with data scientists and ML engineers to translate modeling requirements into well-defined, reusable features
• Establish and maintain a feature store (or equivalent) to enable feature reuse, versioning, and consistency between training and inference (train/serve parity)
• Implement CI/CD pipelines for feature and data pipeline code — automated testing, deployment, and rollback for pipeline changes
• Define and enforce data quality checks (completeness, freshness, schema validation, drift detection, anomaly detection) across feature pipelines
• Optimize Spark/Databricks jobs for performance, cost, and reliability at scale
• Document feature definitions, lineage, and pipeline architecture for reproducibility and audit purposes
• Partner with data engineering and platform teams to ensure features integrate cleanly with upstream data sources and downstream ML platforms
• Monitor production feature pipelines and proactively resolve data quality or pipeline failures

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in feature engineering, data engineering, or ML engineering roles supporting AI/ML model development
• Bachelors degree Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Data Analytics or equivalent degree
• Strong hands-on experience with Databricks (Spark clusters, notebooks, Delta Lake, workflows/jobs)
• Proficiency in Python for data pipeline and feature transformation development (pandas, PySpark, modular pipeline design)
• Strong SQL skills for complex data transformation, aggregation, and optimization
• Solid working knowledge of Apache Spark (PySpark or Spark SQL) for distributed data processing at scale
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for data/ML pipeline code
• Demonstrated experience implementing data quality management practices validation frameworks, monitoring, and alerting
• Understanding of ML workflows and how feature quality impacts model performance
• Experience with version control (Git) and collaborative software development practices
• Strong communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally with data science, ML engineering, and platform teams

What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Skills)

• 8+ years of experience in data engineering.
• Experience with vehicle telematics, battery health data, or embedded systems.
• Familiarity with machine learning workflows and model deployment.
• Experience with real-time data streaming technologies (e.g., Kafka, Delta LIVE Tables).

GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply for this role if you will need GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future. This includes direct company sponsorship, entry of GM as the immigration employer of record on a government form, and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g., H1-B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc). This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location at least 3 times a week {or other frequency dictated by their manager}. This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.

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