Senior ML Engineer, Embodied AI Data Foundations

General Motors; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 159,000 - 231,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Retirement plan

Tuition assistance

GM vehicle discounts

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Senior AI/ML Engineer in the Embodied AI Data Foundations group to develop data-centric AI solutions that improve autonomous driving. You will design data curation and model training pipelines using real and synthetic data to achieve safe, reliable behavior across diverse scenarios.

Lead experiments on data composition, scaling, and offline metrics while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deploy models in onboard driving systems and to publish notable

Qualifications

• Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, or Machine Learning.
• Strong fundamentals in ML design of experiments, baselines, and signal extraction.
• Proficiency in Python and PyTorch; experience with large datasets.
• Hands-on data-centric ML: curation, sampling, labeling, or evaluation of large training sets.
• Working knowledge of large-scale foundation models and pre-training/fine-tuning.
• Data analysis skills: NumPy, Pandas; SQL or Spark for large datasets.
• Ability to deliver applied ML results under real-world constraints and timelines.
• Clear communication to engineers and non-experts.

Responsibilities

• Design experiments linking data composition to model behavior.
• Apply self-supervised pre-training, imitation, RL, and foundation-model fine-tuning.
• Develop data curation and mining methods to raise data value.
• Define offline metrics and evaluations predicting on-road behavior.
• Trace model failures to data root causes and specify fixes.
• Train models at scale across multi-GPU/multi-node datasets.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deploy models in onboard systems.
• Follow literature and bring advances into recipes and evaluations.

Skills

ML fundamentals

Python PyTorch

Data-centric ML

Large-scale data

Real-world constraints

Clear communication

Education

Master’s or PhD in CS/Robotics/ML

Tools

NumPy

Pandas

SQL/Spark

Job description

General Motors is seeking a Senior AI/ML Engineer in the Embodied AI Data Foundations group to develop data-centric AI solutions that improve autonomous driving. You will design data curation and model training pipelines using real and synthetic data to achieve safe, reliable behavior across diverse scenarios.

Lead experiments on data composition, scaling, and offline metrics while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deploy models in onboard driving systems and to publish notable