Senior AI/ML Engineer, Build Platform

Job Description

This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to the office in [Austin, Detroit, Warren, Milford, Mountain View or Sunnyvale] a minimum of 3 days per week. This position can be considered Remote if the successful candidate is in the Seattle, Washington area.

About Us 

The AI Cloud and Developer Infrastructure organization is responsible for delivering and maintaining the tools and services engineers here at GM use every day to do their best work and drive our cars forward. Tools and services we work on enhancing the entire development process of engineers at GM — how/where code is checked out, modified, compiled, tested, merged, and eventually deployed. Our goal is to ensure our AV engineers and others here have world class tools and a seamless development experience so that they can focus on the problems that matter most in their domain. 

The Role 

We are looking for a Senior Engineer with an extensive engineering background, experience using a variety of developer tools and technologies, and who is passionate about developer productivity. As a leader on this team, we are looking for someone who cares deeply about the technical development of other engineers on the team and can effectively balance the needs and priorities of the business, our users, and the growth of our engineers. 

The Team 

Build Platform owns creating the build system and tooling that supports our AV and AI developers.  We use Bazel in front of an in-house Remote Bazel Executor (RBE) and Content Addressable Storage (CAS) to provide a premier build experience at Cruise.  Our team is constantly on the lookout for optimizations and new tooling that improves our product.  GM AI developers are heavy users of Python and Docker.  The speed at which they can iterate directly impacts the rate at which our AVs improve.  The tooling and workflows that Build Platform provides are central to the productivity of our AI developers.  Improvements in this space quickly lead to enormous impact for Cruise. 

The way this engineer will deliver impact may vary depending on the situation but they will be expected to deliver complete solutions to existing problems from ideation to production and effectively communicate with stakeholders. 

What You’ll Do (Responsibilities) 

• Design and implement improvements to our Python development ecosystem and workflows, which have a measurable and direct impact on engineering productivity. 

• Collaborate with engineers across the company to understand and support their development workflows. 

• Own technical projects from start to finish and be responsible for major technical decisions and tradeoffs. 

• Lead complex projects that span teams, with many partners and customers. 

• Effectively participate in planning, code reviews, and design discussions. 

• Contribute impactful projects to the team’s roadmap. 

• Thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative work environment where impact is a result of your efforts and where your contribution is highly visible. 

• Drive software engineering best practices both within our team and across engineering.  Create tooling that encourages and supports these practices. 

• Mentoring and up-leveling other engineers on the team. 

• Conduct technical interviews with well-calibrated standards and play a crucial role in recruiting activities. 

• Be a positive contributor to our team culture. 

Minimum Qualifications (Must-Have) <