Senior Feature Engineer, Data & ML Platform

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

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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

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.