Senior ML/AI Engineer – Observability

General Motors

Senior Engineer at GM responsible for observability frameworks to enhance developer productivity. Seeking a candidate with extensive engineering experience in cloud-based production systems.

Posted 6/26/2026full-timeSunnyvale • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $178,420 - $230,500 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudGoLinuxUnix

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Using your software and systems engineering skills to contribute code, perform code reviews, and create technical designs that improve performance and reliability of observability systems.
Proactively identify and address challenges that create new opportunities to improve the state of engineering through observability.
Partnering with Software Engineering teams to better understand use-cases and guide the engineers to use the existing tools effectively.
Building tools to enable engineers to collect and act on observability signals from distributed cloud systems and on-vehicle sensors
Influence the team’s technical roadmap by evaluating new tools and technologies through PoCs and selecting roadmap investments that align with our team vision
Drive software engineering best practices both within your team and across the AV organization, and create tooling which encourages these
Guide the team to find the right balance between delivering impact and addressing technical debt
Mentor and grow engineers on the team and across the organization

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of experience designing, building, and operating production systems at scale in the cloud
Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience
Understanding of AI Engineering principles and concepts
Experience designing highly scalable, reliable, and maintainable services
Experience writing in effective Go or other equivalent languages at production scale
Understanding of Unix/Linux, SSH, and networking fundamentals
Attention to detail, and a desire to improve processes and systems around you
Ability to lead and influence others, both internal and external to the team
Principled reasoning and the ability to research, document, communicate, and defend proposals, and provide and take critical feedback
Ability to effectively make trade-offs and communicate the reasoning
Ability to manage competing priorities, focus on shipping, and work effectively under pressure
Passion for mentoring and growing junior engineers
Passion for leveling up the overall efficiency and effectiveness of the team
Passion for self-driving technology and its potential impact on the world

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringcode reviewstechnical designobservability systemsAI engineeringGo programmingUnix/Linuxnetworking fundamentalsscalable servicesproduction systems

Soft Skills

attention to detailleadershipinfluencecommunicationcritical feedbacktrade-off analysistime managementmentoringprocess improvementteam effectiveness

Certifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science