Senior Software Engineer, Data Science
General Motors
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Technical Fellow – Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, LLMs, VLMs
General Motors
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Austin • California, Missouri, Texas • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $234,000 - $358,500 per year
Job Level
SeniorLead
Tech Stack
AWSAzureCloudJavaKerasPythonPyTorchTensorflow
About the role
- Sets the org-wide bar for engineering excellence and quality
- Challenges assumptions and drives high-impact technical decisions
- Leads cross-functional alignment across software, data, hardware, safety, and security
- Owns outcomes across programs and platforms, including risk, quality, and long-term maintainability
- Scales expertise through mentorship, playbooks, and knowledge sharing
- Provides authoritative AI/ML leadership on architecture design, evaluation, robustness, and explainability
- Delivers invention and platform solutions with measurable business and customer value
- Owns end-to-end technical strategy and architecture; defines critical requirements and Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs)
- Directs complex design reviews and trade studies; records decisions through Architecture Decision Record (ADRs)
- Balances system requirements across performance, safety, reliability, cost, and compliance
- Defines and enforces org-wide standards and best practices (testing, CI/CD, MLOps/data governance)
- Acts as a force multiplier: mentors senior/staff, raises the hiring bar, and leads critical postmortems
- Lead design and deployment of cutting-edge AI systems including computer vision, LLMs, and VLMs for manufacturing applications
Requirements
- PhD in a relevant field or related discipline (STEM focused), or equivalent research experience with a proven track record of publications in reputed journals and conferences
- 15+ years’ experience in research and design Computer Vision / VLM / LLM solutions with significant focus on Machine Vision
- At least 10 years in a hands-on technical or scientific leadership position
- Experience in designing and implementing large scale AI solutions
- Experience in leading large-scale AI/ML development projects from concept to multiple releases in production
- Strong hands on experience with at least one of the popular machine learning frameworks (PyTorch, Tensorflow, Keras, etc.)
- Familiarity with programming languages (C++, Python, Java, etc.)
- Familiarity with multiple open-source machine/computer vision libraries (OpenCV, PIL, etc.)
- Familiarity with OpenGL and OpenCL
- In-depth experience with Ops, MLOps, and/or VLM/LLMOps
- Familiarity in cloud-based development and integration (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud)
- Experience leading high-impact, cross-company initiatives
- Established track record of excellence in relevant research areas
- Excellent communication skills in presentation (both verbal and slides)
- Very strong drive for continuous delivery of new and improved capabilities to production
- GM DOES NOT PROVIDE IMMIGRATION-RELATED SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE (no H-1B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc.)
Benefits
- 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
- Eligibility for company vehicle evaluation program (assignment of a General Motors vehicle; program participants are required to purchase/lease a qualifying GM vehicle every four years unless exceptions apply)
- Incentive pay program (bonus potential based on company performance, job level, and individual performance)
- This job may be eligible for relocation benefits
ATS Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
AI leadershipMachine LearningComputer VisionVLMLLMMLOpsCI/CDArchitecture Decision RecordNon-Functional Requirementslarge scale AI solutions
Soft skills
mentorshipcross-functional alignmentcommunicationleadershipproblem-solvingdecision-makingcollaborationcontinuous improvementpresentation skillsrisk management
Certifications
PhD in relevant fieldSTEM focused degree
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