Staff AI/ML Engineer, Developer Productivity

General Motors (GM)

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Work type
Remote
Location
Mountain View, CA
Salary
$180,000–$284,000 / yr
Posted
73 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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This role $232k
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TL;DR · Staff AI/ML Engineer, Developer Productivity

As a Staff AI/ML Engineer, Developer Productivity, you will join the AV Developer Tools team within the AI Cloud and Developer Productivity organization. You will be responsible for identifying engineering pain points, designing scalable solutions, and influencing the technical roadmap to improve developer toolchains and services. Your daily work involves evaluating new technologies through proofs of concept, mentoring junior engineers, and promoting software engineering best practices to enhance productivity. The role requires proficiency in Go, Python, Unix/Linux, SSH, and networking fundamentals. You will specifically focus on building AI-native tools and services that enable the deployment of consistent, secure agentic workflows while providing instrumentation for debugging and performance monitoring. This work addresses the critical challenge of optimizing internal development processes and ensuring reliable service availability within the autonomous vehicle software ecosystem.

What you'll do

  • Identify engineering pain points and design scalable, maintainable solutions for developer tools.
  • Influence the team's technical roadmap and evaluate new technologies through proofs of concept.
  • Ship improvements to AV development toolchains that measurably impact engineering productivity.
  • Drive software engineering best practices and create tooling to encourage these standards.
  • Balance the delivery of high-impact features with the management of technical debt.
  • Mentor and grow junior engineers while modeling high levels of accountability.
  • Set boundaries on external requests to ensure alignment with the team's core vision.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
  • 5+ years of experience designing, building, and operating production systems at scale in the cloud.
  • Experience designing highly scalable, reliable, and maintainable services.
  • Proficiency in writing Go, Python, or other languages at production scale.
  • Understanding of Unix/Linux, SSH, and networking fundamentals.
  • Ability to lead, mentor, and grow junior engineers while influencing technical roadmaps.
  • Demonstrated application of LLMs, skills, and MCPs to coding and review workflows.
  • Experience with GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, or contributing to Open-Source projects.

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