Staff ML Engineer, ML Compute Platform

General Motors; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 195,000 - 298,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors Company in Mountain View, California, offers a hybrid Staff ML Engineer role focused on building scalable ML compute platforms. You will design backend components, work with ML researchers to improve usability, and lead large-scale initiatives across GM’s ML ecosystem.

Relocation assistance is available for eligible candidates. The position emphasizes collaboration, platform reliability, and driving impact in GM’s AI infrastructure, with a competitive salary and strong total

Qualifications

• 8+ years of industry experience.
• Proficiency in Go, C++, or Python.
• Strong Kubernetes experience at scale.
• Experience building large distributed systems.
• Experience leading large-scale initiatives.
• Experience with GCP, Azure, or AWS.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement core platform backend components.
• Collaborate with ML engineers and researchers to improve usability.
• Lead large-scale technical initiatives across GM’s ML ecosystem.
• Enhance efficiency, scalability, and reliability of resources.
• Contribute to and possibly lead open source projects.

Skills

Go

C++

Python

Leadership

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Job Description

Hybrid This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to the GM Global Technical Center - Cole Engineering Center Podium or Mountain View Technical Center , CA at least three times per week, at minimum or other frequency dictated by the business. This job is eligible for relocation assistance.

About the Team:

The ML Compute Platform is part of the AI Compute Platform organization within Infrastructure Platforms. Our team owns the cloud-agnostic, reliable, and cost-efficient compute backend that powers GM AI. We’re proud to serve as the AI infrastructure platform for teams developing autonomous vehicles (L3/L4/L5), as well as other groups building AI-driven products for GM and its customers. We enable rapid innovation and feature development by optimizing for high-priority, ML-centric use cases. Our platform supports the training and deployment of state-of-the-art (SOTA) machine learning models with a focus on performance, availability, concurrency, and scalability. We’re committed to maximizing GPU utilization across platforms (B200, H100, A100, and more) while maintaining reliability and cost efficiency.

About the Role:

We are seeking a Staff ML Engineer to help build and scale robust compute platforms for ML workflows. In this role, you’ll work closely with ML engineers and researchers to ensure efficient model training and seamless deployment into production. This is a high-impact opportunity to influence the future of AI infrastructure at GM.

You will play a key role in shaping the user-facing experience of the platform, ensuring that ML practitioners can discover, schedule, and debug jobs with ease. The ideal candidate brings experience in designing distributed systems for ML, strong problem-solving skills, and a product mindset focused on platform usability and reliability.

What you’ll be doing:

• Design and implement core platform backend software components
• Experience cloud platforms like GCP, Azure or on-prem
• Collaborate with ML engineers and researchers to understand platform pain points and improve developer experience
• Thrive in a dynamic, multi-tasking environment with ever-evolving priorities. Interface with other teams to incorporate their innovations and vice versa
• Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources
• Lead large-scale technical initiatives across GM’s ML ecosystem
• Help raise the engineering bar through technical leadership and best practices
• Contribute to and potentially lead open source projects; represent GM in relevant communities

Requirements

• 8+ years of industry experience
• Expertise in either Go, C++, Python or other relevant coding languages
• Strong background with kubernetes at scale
• Relevant experience building large-scale with distributed systems
• Experience leading and driving large scale initiatives
• Experience working with Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, or Amazon Web Services

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building ML infrastructure platforms with strong developer/user experience
• Experience working with or designing job orchestration interfaces, CLI tools, or web UIs for ML workflows
• Familiarity with observability, telemetry, and user feedback loops to inform product improvements
• Experience with GPU/TPU optimizations
• Experience with training frameworks like PyTorch, TorchX
• Experience with Ray framework
• Leadership/active participation in the open source community
• Experience infrastructure applications or similar experience

Why Join Us?

If you’re excited to tackle some of today’s most complex engineering challenges, see the impact of your work in real-world AV applications, and help shape the future of AI infrastructure at GM—this is the team for you.

Compensation:

Compensation: The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance with applicable state laws. The compensation may not be representative for positions located outside of New York, Colorado, California, or Washington

• Compensation: The expected base compensation for this role is : $195,000 - $298,000 Actual base compensation within the identified range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.
• Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.
• Benefits: GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs. Benefit options include medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation & holidays.

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