Staff AI/ML Engineer — Leader in Developer Productivity

General Motors Company; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 284,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and well-being benefits

GM vehicle discounts

Tuition assistance

Employee assistance program

Paid vacation & holidays

Job summary

General Motors Company in Austin is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead the AV Developer Tools team, shaping developer productivity across Go/Python toolchains and cloud-scale services. You will mentor engineers, influence the technical roadmap, and drive impactful tool improvements within a fast-moving, safety-conscious automotive technology environment.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to balance performance, reliability, and business priorities while guiding architectural

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience 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

SSH

Networking

Leadership

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

General Motors Company in Austin is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead the AV Developer Tools team, shaping developer productivity across Go/Python toolchains and cloud-scale services. You will mentor engineers, influence the technical roadmap, and drive impactful tool improvements within a fast-moving, safety-conscious automotive technology environment.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to balance performance, reliability, and business priorities while guiding architectural