Staff AI Platform Engineer — Cloud-Native AI Systems

General Motors LLC; United States; Hybrid; USD 189,000 - 333,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing benefits

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision care

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Accounts

Retirement savings plan

Life insurance

Paid vacation and holidays

Tuition assistance programs

Employee assistance program

GM vehicle discounts

Job summary

General Motors LLC is seeking a Staff IC to architect and implement next‑gen customer‑facing AI systems. You will design reusable modules for orchestration, grounding, memory, and tool integration, while contributing production Python/Go/Java code.

This is a senior technical leadership role focused on architecture rather than people management. You will influence patterns across cloud services (GCP/Azure), lead CI/CD and testing pipelines, and collaborate with product, security, data, and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including ownership of distributed, cloud‑native, or customer‑facing systems.
• Hands‑on architectural leadership with production systems at scale.
• Proficient in Python and at least one of Go/Java; strong distributed-systems design skills.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture and hands‑on delivery of complex customer‑facing AI modules from PRD through production.
• Turn product needs into clear component boundaries, APIs, data models, ERDs, sequence flows, deployment designs, test strategies, and AI evaluation plans.
• Build reusable services for orchestration, agents, grounding, retrieval, memory, tool integration, conversation state, and channel adapters.
• Lead technical decisions for inference, serving, reliability, security, observability, capacity, and operational readiness.
• Establish reference implementations and engineering patterns for AI‑enabled services across GCP and Azure.
• Drive CI/CD, automated testing, AI evaluation and regression pipelines, release readiness, and production operations.
• Partner with product, security, privacy, data, infrastructure, and application teams to resolve cross‑system tradeoffs.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, design documentation, code reviews, incident analysis, and production‑readiness reviews.
• Identify opportunities to simplify duplicated capabilities and standardize reusable platform interfaces.

Skills

Python

Go

Java

LLM apps

Distributed systems

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD

IAM

GCP

Azure

Job description

General Motors LLC is seeking a Staff IC to architect and implement next‑gen customer‑facing AI systems. You will design reusable modules for orchestration, grounding, memory, and tool integration, while contributing production Python/Go/Java code.

This is a senior technical leadership role focused on architecture rather than people management. You will influence patterns across cloud services (GCP/Azure), lead CI/CD and testing pipelines, and collaborate with product, security, data, and