Staff AI/ML Engineer - Automotive Edge & Multimodal LLMs

generalmotors; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Staff AI/ML Software Engineer to lead the adaptation, fine-tuning, and distillation of foundation models for automotive edge deployment. You will build models that understand driver intent, conversational context, passenger requests, and the visual state of the cabin, enabling safer and more intuitive vehicle interactions.

The role combines technical leadership with hands-on development within the Vehicle Applied AI team, aligned to hybrid work in Mountain View or

Responsibilities

• Lead the adaptation, fine-tuning, and distillation of foundation models for the automotive edge.
• Build models that understand driver intent, conversational context, passenger requests, and the visual state of the cabin.
• Set the architectural direction for our model optimization pipelines.
• Lead on parameter-efficient fine-tuning, dataset curation for complex human-machine interaction use cases.

Job description

General Motors is seeking a Staff AI/ML Software Engineer to lead the adaptation, fine-tuning, and distillation of foundation models for automotive edge deployment. You will build models that understand driver intent, conversational context, passenger requests, and the visual state of the cabin, enabling safer and more intuitive vehicle interactions.

The role combines technical leadership with hands-on development within the Vehicle Applied AI team, aligned to hybrid work in Mountain View or