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About General Motors (GM)
General Motors (GM) is a leading American multinational automotive corporation founded in 1908 and headquartered in Detroit, Michigan.
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As a Staff Research Scientist - VLM / VLA, you will join the team to advance the frontier of artificial intelligence for autonomous driving. You will lead the design, training, and optimization of Vision-Language Models and Vision-Language-Action foundational models to enable vehicles to understand complex visual scenes and make safe driving decisions. Your daily work involves researching multimodal alignment for camera, radar, and LiDAR data, while pioneering techniques like quantization, pruning, and knowledge distillation to deploy massive architectures onto resource-constrained onboard vehicle hardware. You will utilize Python and expertise in transformers and generative AI to influence technical roadmaps and mentor a multidisciplinary team. This role solves the critical problem of bridging large-scale multimodal AI with real-time physical systems to ensure safe, low-latency behavioral prediction in autonomous transportation.
What does a Research Scientist earn?
Median $216250 from 45 postings across 16 companies.
Machine Learning
Python
Generative AI
Transformers
Self-Supervised Learning
Foundation Models
VLAs
Multimodal Systems
Video Generation
Robotics
AV
ADAS
Generative AI
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Python
Large Language Models
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Agentic AI
Data Analytics
AI Model Architectures
Algorithms
Technical Documentation