Staff AI/ML Engineer - Developer Tools & Productivity Lead

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

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.