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Staff ML Engineer, Inference Platform

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General Motors

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United States , Sunnyvale

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Salary:

185500.00 - 270000.00 USD / Year

Job Description:

The ML Inference Platform is part of the AI Compute Platforms organization within Infrastructure Platforms. Our team owns the cloud-agnostic, reliable, and cost-efficient platform that powers GM’s AI efforts. We’re proud to serve as the AI infrastructure platform for teams developing autonomous vehicles (L3/L4/L5), as well as other groups building AI-driven products for GM and its customers. We enable rapid innovation and feature development by optimizing for high-priority, ML-centric use cases. Our platform supports the serving of state-of-the-art (SOTA) machine learning models for experimental and bulk inference, with a focus on performance, availability, concurrency, and scalability. We’re committed to maximizing GPU utilization across platforms (B200, H100, A100, and more) while maintaining reliability and cost efficiency.

Job Responsibility:

  • Design and implement core platform backend software components
  • Collaborate with ML engineers and researchers to understand critical workflows, parse them to platform requirements, and deliver incremental value
  • Lead technical decision-making on model serving strategies, orchestration, caching, model versioning, and auto-scaling mechanisms
  • Drive the development of monitoring, observability, and metrics to ensure reliability, performance, and resource optimization of inference services
  • Proactively research and integrate state-of-the-art model serving frameworks, hardware accelerators, and distributed computing techniques
  • Lead large-scale technical initiatives across GM’s ML ecosystem
  • Raise the engineering bar through technical leadership, establishing best practices
  • Contribute to open source projects
  • represent GM in relevant communities

Requirements:

  • 8+ years of industry experience, with focus on machine learning systems or high performance backend services
  • Expertise in either Go, Python, C++ or other relevant coding languages
  • Expertise in ML inference, model serving frameworks (triton, rayserve, vLLM etc)
  • Strong communication skills and a proven ability to drive cross-functional initiatives
  • Experience working with cloud platforms such as GCP, Azure, or AWS
  • Ability to thrive in a dynamic, multi-tasking environment with ever-evolving priorities

Nice to have:

  • Hands-on experience building ML infrastructure platforms for model serving/inference
  • Experience working with or designing interfaces, apis and clients for ML workflows
  • Experience with Ray framework, and/or vLLM
  • Experience with distributed systems, and handling large-scale data processing
  • Familiarity with telemetry, and other feedback loops to inform product improvements
  • Familiarity with hardware acceleration (GPUs) and optimizations for inference workloads
  • Contributions to open-source ML serving frameworks
What we offer:
  • 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
  • company vehicle evaluation program

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
March 19, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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