
Staff ML Engineer – Embodied AI Scaling Foundations
General Motors
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Sunnyvale • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $189,000 - $300,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Lead the design, implementation, and deployment of scalable platforms and tools that drive machine learning model training and evaluation workflows across GM.
- Own complex technical projects end-to-end, making key architectural decisions and technical trade-offs.
- You will be a core contributor to team planning, design reviews, and code quality.
- Take a holistic view of projects, considering their impact across multiple teams, and proactively drive technical prioritization.
- Collaborate closely with partner teams to ensure maximum benefit from the systems we build.
- Help shape our team through technical interviewing with high, well-calibrated standards, and play an essential role in recruiting.
- Mentor and onboard junior engineers and interns, helping them grow their careers.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems, applications, or advanced ML systems.
- Proven track record of designing robust frameworks with high-quality, durable APIs.
- Deep understanding of machine learning algorithms with hands-on application.
- Expertise in building reliable, high-performance, and cost-efficient systems on modern cloud infrastructure.
- End-to-end experience across the ML development lifecycle, including MLOps practices.
- Strong cross functional collaboration skills across teams and organizations.
- Proficiency with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
- Exceptional coding skills in Python or C++.
- Strong interest in autonomous driving and its transformative potential.
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, or equivalent practical experience.
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, tuition assistance programs, employee assistance program, GM vehicle discounts and more.
- Upon successful completion of a motor vehicle report review, you will be eligible to participate in a company vehicle evaluation program, through which you will be assigned a General Motors vehicle to drive and evaluate.
- This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
machine learningdistributed systemsAPIsMLOpsPythonC++cloud infrastructurecontainerizationorchestration
Soft Skills
technical project managementcross functional collaborationmentoringteam planningdesign reviewscode quality
Certifications
BS in Computer ScienceMS in Computer SciencePhD in Computer Scienceequivalent practical experience