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Job Description

The Role:

General Motors is seeking aStaff AI/ML Engineerfor theVehicle Mechatronic Embedded Controls (VMEC) Analyticsteam.

The team delivers production AI/ML solutions for highimpact diagnostics, prognostics, and testeffectiveness use cases. This is ahandson practitioner rolefocused on building, shipping, andoperatingreal systems - not on academic research.

The Staff AI/ML Engineer will serve as a senior individual contributor within an established AI/ML leadership group, providing deep technicalexpertise, shaping implementation approaches, and mentoring others while collaborating on overall strategy.

WhatYou'llDo:

• Design, build, andoperateendtoend AI/ML solutions(data pipelines, models, services, and tools) for diagnostics, prognostics, and test analytics.
• Implementproductiongrade ML pipelineson platforms such asAzureandDatabricks, covering data ingestion, feature engineering, training, evaluation, and inference for batch and streaming workloads.
• Develop andmaintainrobust, observable ML services and internal toolsthat make complex vehicle and field data easy to use for engineers and technical stakeholders.
• Applypractical ML and statistical methods(e.g., treebased models, timeseries and anomaly detection, deep learning whereappropriate)with a focus on reliability, explainability, and impact.
• Ownmodel and data observabilityin production, including metrics, dashboards, alerts, and remediation workflows for drift, data quality, and performance regressions.
• Partner with data engineering to define and useindustrialized and vectorized data productsthat support search, RAG, and analytics at scale.
• Review designs and code,mentor AI/ML practitioners, and help sethigh standardsfor testing, logging, deployment, and documentation.
• Collaborate with diagnostics/prognostics SMEs, validation, safety, and program teams to prioritize work, define success metrics, and embed solutions in daytoday engineering workflows.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications):

• Graduate degree (Master'sor PhD)in Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Engineering, or a closely related quantitative field.
• 7+ yearsof handson experience designing, building, and operating machine learning systems in production environments.
• StrongproficiencyinPython(productionquality code, testing, packaging) andSQL, with experience working in shared, multideveloper codebases.
• Practical experience with coreML frameworkssuch asPyTorch,TensorFlow, orscikitlearn, and with MLOps tooling (e.g., MLflow, CI/CD, model registries, experiment tracking).
• Experience building data and ML workloads oncloud platforms, preferablyMicrosoft Azure, and working withDatabricks, Spark, or similar distributed processing frameworks.
• Demonstrated ability toturn ambiguous realworld problems into shippable AI/ML solutions, owning the details from data exploration through deployed service and ongoing operation.
• Strong understanding ofML system behavior in production(data issues, nonstationarity, latency, throughput, failure modes) and comfort debugging with logs, metrics, and traces.
• Excellentcommunication and collaboration skills, witha track recordof influencing decisions and mentoring other AI/ML practitioners.

What Will Give YouACompetitive Edge (Preferred Skills):

• 10+ yearsof applied machine learning or data science experience, including ownership of highimpact,productionAI systems.
• Experience withvehicle, fleet, or telematics data, or adjacent domains with rich timeseries and reliability data.
• Background indiagnostics/prognostics modeling(e.g., fault classification, anomaly detection, degradation modeling, survival analysis).
• Experience buildingvector search and retrievalaugmented generation (RAG)or similarproductionAI applications that integrate foundation models with structured data.
• Familiarity withAzure Cognitive Servicesor similar managed AI services and how to combine them pragmatically with custom ML for robust production solutions.
• Demonstrated impactinraising engineering standardsand building AI/ML engineering capability across teams.
• Prior experience inautomotive, embedded controls, or softwaredefined vehicleprograms, or other safetycritical domains.

GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply for this role if you will need GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future. This includes direct company sponsorship, entry of GM as the immigration employer of record on a government form, and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g., H1-B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc). This role is based remotely, but if the selected candidate lives within a specific mile radius of a GM hub, they will be expected to report to the location three times a week {or other frequency dictated by your manager}. This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.

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