Senior Systems Engineer — AI-Driven Factory Automation

General Motors; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Sr. Systems Engineer to lead deployment and modernization of software used across GM manufacturing plants.

The role involves hands-on building of full-stack environments, AI-centric deployment, and integration with shop-floor IT infrastructure to support zero-defect manufacturing. The ideal candidate combines deep experience with CIMPLICITY, OPC UA/DA, PLC-to-MES data integration, and AI/ML integration, enabling generative AI for PLC/SCADA scripts, predictive

Qualifications

• 5+ years integrating applications with industrial PLCs, robots, or other automation equipment in a manufacturing environment.
• Hands-on experience deploying and maintaining control-room or manufacturing applications on shop-floor IT infrastructure.
• Experience with industrial protocols, PLCs, manufacturing equipment, and plant-floor data collection and integration.
• Experience designing, integrating, or operationalizing AI/ML solutions in an enterprise or manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

• Deconstruct existing deployment processes and identify opportunities to make them user-driven, AI-centric, secure, repeatable, measurable, and scalable.
• Deploy, configure, update, and maintain control-room and plant-floor software on shop-floor IT infrastructure.
• Work closely with IT infrastructure delivery teams to install and configure virtual servers in plant data centers with minimum supervision.
• Identify repeatable deployment actions for automation through scripting, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and AI-assisted workflows.
• Design and implement AI/ML capabilities, including generative AI for PLC/SCADA script generation, predictive maintenance analytics, and natural-language interfaces for plant-floor data.
• Establish validation, testing, human review, security, and traceability practices for AI-generated scripts and configurations.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field

Job description

General Motors is seeking a Sr. Systems Engineer to lead deployment and modernization of software used across GM manufacturing plants.

The role involves hands-on building of full-stack environments, AI-centric deployment, and integration with shop-floor IT infrastructure to support zero-defect manufacturing. The ideal candidate combines deep experience with CIMPLICITY, OPC UA/DA, PLC-to-MES data integration, and AI/ML integration, enabling generative AI for PLC/SCADA scripts, predictive