generalmotors

Staff ML Engineer - Embodied AI Scaling Foundations

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At a Glance

Location
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Work Regime
remote
Employment
Full time
Experience
5+ years
Compensation
salary range for this role is $189,000 to $300,000. The actual base salary a suc
Posted
2026-03-04

Key Requirements

Required Skills

Deep LearningDockerKubernetesMachine LearningPyTorchPythonTensorFlow

Domain Knowledge

  • Cloud

Requirements

5+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems, applications, or advanced ML systems‑scale distributed systems, applications, or advanced ML systems

Proven track record of designing robust frameworks with high-quality, durable APIs‑quality, durable APIs

Deep understanding of machine learning algorithms with hands‑on application

Expertise in building reliable, high-performance, and cost-efficient systems on modern cloud infrastructure‑performance, and cost‑efficient systems on modern cloud infrastructure

End-to-end experience across the ML development lifecycle, including MLOps practices‑to‑end experience across the ML development lifecycle, including

Strong cross functional collaboration skills across teams and organizations‑functional collaboration skills across teams and organizations

Compensation & Benefits

Benefits: GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs. Benefit options include 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 and more.

Company Vehicle

: Upon successful completion of a motor vehicle report review, you will be eligible to participate in a company vehicle evaluation program, through which you will be assigned a General Motors vehicle to drive and evaluate. Note: program participants are required to purchase/lease a qualifying GM vehicle every four years unless one of a limited number of exceptions applies.

We believe we all must make a choice every day – individually and collectively – to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.

Responsibilities

Are you passionate about accelerating the future of autonomous driving? Join the Embodied AI team at General Motors. Our team is developing and deploying machine learning solutions that support safe and reliable autonomous vehicle behavior across real-world scenarios.2

As a Staff ML Engineer, you will build critical infrastructure that powers every machine learning engineer working on our cutting-edge Autonomous Driving models. From foundational models to state-of-the-art optimization, our goal is simple: dramatically accelerate the machine learning development cycle. We are committed to delivering products that are performant, easy to use, and exceptionally reliable. Your success will be measured by the success of our partner teams who rely on our robust systems to build the world's most advanced driverless vehicles.

What you'll do:

Lead the design, implementation, and deployment of scalable platforms and tools that drive machine learning model training and evaluation workflows across GM.

Own complex technical projects end-to-end, making key architectural decisions and technical trade-offs. You will be a core contributor to team planning, design reviews, and code quality.

Take a holistic view of projects, considering their impact across multiple teams, and

About the Company

Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.