Staff AI/ML Tools Engineer - Dev Tooling Lead

General Motors; Washington; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 284,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing benefits

Retirement savings plan

GM vehicle discounts

Job summary

General Motors seeks a Staff Engineer for the AV Developer Tools team to broaden developer productivity across GM’s cloud-based services and on-device tooling. You will lead a team focused on scalable, reliable toolchains, and guide the engineering culture while balancing business needs with user impact.

You will mentor engineers, drive roadmap decisions, evaluate new technologies, and ship improvements that measurably boost productivity and production reliability for GM’s AV initiatives.

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

Mentoring

Leadership

Trade-offs

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

Job description

General Motors seeks a Staff Engineer for the AV Developer Tools team to broaden developer productivity across GM’s cloud-based services and on-device tooling. You will lead a team focused on scalable, reliable toolchains, and guide the engineering culture while balancing business needs with user impact.

You will mentor engineers, drive roadmap decisions, evaluate new technologies, and ship improvements that measurably boost productivity and production reliability for GM’s AV initiatives.