Staff AI Platform Engineer - Conversational AI & Cloud

General Motors (GM); Warren (MI); Hybrid; USD 189,000 - 333,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Tuition assistance

GM vehicle discounts

Relocation benefits

Paid vacation

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Staff Individual Contributor to architect and deliver enterprise-scale customer-facing AI systems. You will own architecture, APIs, and production delivery for reusable AI modules across GCP and Azure, with hands-on Python, Go, and Java coding and system-level leadership.

You will influence design reviews, drive CI/CD and testing, and partner with product, security, privacy, data, infrastructure, and application teams to balance tradeoffs while raising engineering

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with distributed, cloud-native systems.
• Hands-on architect or lead engineer delivering production systems at scale.
• Expert Python and strong Go and/or Java programming skills.
• Experience with LLM applications, agent orchestration, RAG, embeddings, tool use, and evaluation.
• Cloud experience with GCP and/or Azure, containers/Kubernetes, IAM, CI/CD.

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.

Skills

Python

Go

Java

Distributed systems

Cloud architecture

LLM apps

AI/ML

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD

IAM

Job description

General Motors is seeking a Staff Individual Contributor to architect and deliver enterprise-scale customer-facing AI systems. You will own architecture, APIs, and production delivery for reusable AI modules across GCP and Azure, with hands-on Python, Go, and Java coding and system-level leadership.

You will influence design reviews, drive CI/CD and testing, and partner with product, security, privacy, data, infrastructure, and application teams to balance tradeoffs while raising engineering