Staff AI/ML Engineer, Developer Productivity

General Motors Company; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 284,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Retirement plan

GM vehicle discounts

Tuition assistance

Job summary

General Motors Company is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead AV development toolchains and developer productivity initiatives. You will mentor engineers, influence the technical roadmap, and evaluate new tools for scalable cloud-based services across the GM software stack.

The role requires deep experience with Go/Python, Unix/Linux, and strong collaboration across teams to balance business and engineering needs while delivering impact in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years designing, building, and operating production systems at scale in the cloud.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience.
• Experience designing highly scalable, reliable, and maintainable services.
• Experience writing in Go, Python, or other languages at production scale.
• Understanding of Unix/Linux, SSH, and networking fundamentals.
• Attention to detail, and a desire to improve processes and systems around you.
• Ability to lead and influence others, both internal and external to the team.
• Ability to research, document, communicate, and defend proposals, and provide and take critical feedback.
• Ability to effectively make trade-offs and communicate the reasoning.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, focus on shipping, and work effectively under pressure.
• Passion for mentoring and growing junior engineers.
• Passion for self-driving technology and its potential impact on the world.

Responsibilities

• Identify engineering pain points and propose/design/implement solutions that are reliable, scalable, and maintainable
• Influence the team’s technical roadmap
• Evaluate new tools and technologies through PoCs
• Ship improvements to our AV development toolchains and services which have a measurable and direct impact on engineering productivity and our core company metrics
• Drive software engineering best practices within your team, and create tooling which encourages these
• Help steer the engineering culture on the team
• Guide the team to find the right balance between delivering impact and addressing technical debt
• Mentor and grow engineers on the team
• Set the example for high levels of accountability
• Execute and deliver impact both individually and through the team
• Set strong boundaries when selecting external requests and pushing back on requests that do not align with our team vision

Skills

Go

Python

Unix/Linux

Networking fundamentals

Leadership

Mentoring

Education

Bachelors Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

Job description

About Us

The AI Cloud and DeveloperProductivityorganizationis responsible fordelivering andmaintainingthe tools and services engineers here at GM use every day to do their best work and drive our cars forward. Tools and services we work on enhancing the entire development process of engineers at GM — how/where code is checked out,modified, compiled, tested, merged, and eventually deployed. Our goal is to ensure our AV engineers and others here have world class tools and a seamless development experience so that they can focus on the problems that matter most in their domain.

The Role

We are looking for aStaffEngineer with an extensive engineering background, experience using a variety of developer tools and technologies, and who is passionate about developer productivity. As a leader on this team, we are looking for someone who cares deeply about the technical development of other engineers on the team andcaneffectively balance the needs and priorities of the business, our users, and the growth of our engineers.

The way this engineer will deliver impact may vary depending on thesituation,but they will be expected to be able toidentifyhow they can best have impact with minimal guidance.

The Team

The AVDeveloper Toolsteam ownsAI-nativetools and services that enable otherstodeployconsistent andsecureagentic workflows withvisibility into theirusage, both hosted and on-device.We are part of theAI Cloud andDeveloper Productivity organization and own building blocksthat allow customers to easily instrument their products to debug,optimize,reach, andmaintainproduction level reliability and availability.This includessettingbest practices and providing opinionated drop-in libraries and recommendations forservice instrumentation.Our goal is to accelerate AV development by supporting developer workflows for performance and observabilityintotheir systems.

WhatYou’llDo (Responsibilities)

• Identifyengineering pain points and propose/design/implement solutions that are reliable, scalable, and maintainable
• Influence the team’s technical roadmap
• Evaluate new tools and technologies throughPoCs
• Ship improvements to our AV development toolchains and services which have a measurable and direct impact on engineering productivity and our core company metrics
• Drive software engineering best practices within your team, and create tooling which encourages these
• Help steer the engineering culture on the team
• Guide the team to find the right balance between delivering impact and addressing technical debt
• Mentor and grow engineers on the team
• Set the example forhigh levelsof accountability
• Execute and deliver impact both individually and through the team
• Set strong boundaries when selecting external requests and pushing back on requests that do not align with our team vision

Minimum Qualifications (Must-Have)

• 5+ years of experience designing,buildingandoperatingproduction systems at scale in the cloud
• BachelorsDegree in Computer Scienceor related field or equivalent work experience
• Experience designing highly scalable, reliable, and maintainable services
• Experience writing in Go, Python, or other languages at production scale
• Understanding of Unix/Linux, SSH, and networking fundamentals
• Attention to detail, and a desire to improve processes and systems around you
• Ability to lead and influence others, both internal and external to the team
• Ability to research, document, communicate, and defend proposals, and provide and take critical feedback
• Ability to effectively make trade-offs and communicate the reasoning
• Ability to manage competing priorities, focus on shipping, and work effectively under pressure
• Passion for mentoring and growing junior engineers
• Passion for self-driving technology and its potential impact on the world

Preferred Qualifications (Nice-to-Have)

• Demonstratedapplication ofLLMs, skills, and MCPstocoding& review workflows
• Experience working with GCP
• Experience working with Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience owning or contributing to Open-Source projects

Compensation

The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance with applicable state laws. The compensation may not be representative for positions located outside of New York, Colorado, California, or Washington.

• The salary range for this role:is$180,000 to $284,000. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.
• Bonus Potential:An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.
• Benefits:GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs. Benefit options include medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance programs, employee assistance program, GM vehicle discounts and more.