This role pays more than
86%
of similar roles. Most pay
$180,500–$254,750
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$277k
versus about
$218k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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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.
General Motors (GM) currently has
116 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$160,200–$245,000
across 59 roles with salary data.
Staff Research Scientist - VLM / VLA
As a Staff Research Scientist - VLM / VLA, you will join the team to advance the frontier of artificial intelligence for autonomous driving. You will bridge the gap between large-scale multimodal foundational AI and real-time physical systems by designing, training, and optimizing Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs). Your daily work involves developing techniques for model quantization, pruning, knowledge distillation, and compilation to deploy high-parameter architectures onto resource-constrained onboard vehicle hardware. You will integrate camera, radar, LiDAR, and textual prompts into unified systems while mentoring a multidisciplinary team of engineers. The role requires a PhD in a relevant technical field, expertise in transformers and generative AI, and proficiency in Python. You will solve complex problems regarding real-time semantic understanding and behavioral prediction within the autonomous vehicle domain.
What does a Research Scientist earn?
Median $216250 from 42 postings across 13 companies.
LLM
Diffusion Models
Python
PyTorch
JAX
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Systems Programming
Algorithm Development
Software Engineering
Research
Prototypes