Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. General Motors is redefining mobility through innovative vehicle designs and experiences. They are seeking a Principal AI/ML Engineer to lead the Trajectory Generation team, focusing on developing machine learning systems for autonomous driving.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the technical vision and architecture for trajectory generation systems used in autonomous driving
- Lead the development of ML-based trajectory generation models capable of handling complex and dynamic driving environments
- Architect scalable training pipelines using large-scale driving datasets and simulation environments
- Guide the integration of trajectory generation models into real-time onboard systems with strict latency and safety requirements
- Influence the design of next-generation embodied AI architectures for driving
- Mentor senior engineers and help develop the next generation of technical leaders
- Raise the bar for engineering excellence, modeling rigor, and production-quality systems
- Foster a culture of innovation, ownership, and collaborative problem solving
- Lead complex technical initiatives spanning multiple teams across the autonomous driving stack
- Collaborate closely with teams working on: data, perception, simulation, safety validation, onboard systems
- Define roadmaps and priorities aligned with product milestones and safety goals
- Drive solutions from research prototypes through production deployment
Skills
- MS or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Machine Learning, or related field
- Experience leading technical teams delivering production ML systems
- Deep expertise in one or more areas: robotics planning and control, imitation learning or reinforcement learning, generative models, large-scale machine learning systems
- Strong software engineering skills (Python, C++, or similar)
- Experience deploying ML models into real-world or safety-critical environments
- Demonstrated ability to define architecture and drive large technical initiatives across teams
- Experience with autonomous driving, robotics, or embodied AI systems
- Background in trajectory planning, motion planning, or behavior modeling
- Experience with large-scale training infrastructure and distributed ML pipelines
- Experience with simulation-based training or evaluation of driving policies
Benefits
- Bonus Potential: An incentivepayprogram offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.
- 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, tuitionassistanceprograms, employeeassistanceprogram, GM vehicle discounts and more.
- This job may be eligible forrelocationbenefits.
- Upon successful completion of a motor vehicle report review, you will be eligible toparticipatein a company vehicle evaluation program, through which you will be assigned a General Motors vehicle to drive and evaluate.
- Program participantsare required topurchase/lease a qualifying GM vehicle every four years unless one of a limited number of exceptions applies.
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