Senior Software Engineer - Machine Learning

General Motors

3.5

(61)

Washington, DC (Remote)

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    Position summary

    f the Simulation, and our partners Behaviors, Perception, and Safety Engineers.

    The specific duties may include ML/RL model development as well as training loop development, streamlining optimization, integration, creating ML infrastructure, metrics, and data pipelines for production model deployment as well as for fast experimentation cycles.

    What You'll Do:

    • Support the team in developing machine learning (ML) and reinforcement learning (RL) models, including training loop development and optimization.

    • Streamline integration and create ML infrastructure, metrics, and data pipelines for production model deployment and rapid experimentation.

    • Work as part of an ML team and contribute strong software engineering (SWE) expertise.

    • Support the ML team in accelerating project timelines, particularly in areas related to Autopilot, Lane Keep, and autonomous vehicle (AV) technologies.

    • Experience in simulation and robotics is highly desirable, with a preference for candidates from AV or robotics backgrounds rather than solely cloud-focused companies.

    Additional Description

    Your Skills & Abilities:

    • 4+ years of experience in the field of robotics or latency-sensitive backend services

    • Background working with machine learning teams, algorithms, and models

    • Bonus: Experience building highly performant ML and system pipelines

    • Strong programming skills in modern C++ or Python

    Bonus:

    • Experience with profiling CPU and/or GPU software, process scheduling, and prioritization

    • Passionate about self-driving car technology and its impact on the world

    • Expertise in setting architectures that are scalable, efficient, fault-tolerant, and are easily extensible allowing for changes overtime without major disruptions.

    • Ability to design across multiple systems. Ability to both investigate in sophisticated areas as well as a good breadth of understanding of systems outside of your domain.

    • Ability to wear several hats shifting between coding, design, technical strategy, and mentorship combined with excellent judgment on when to switch contexts to meet the greatest need.

    • Track record in deploying perception/prediction/av models into real world environments

    Your Skills & Abilities:

    • 4+ years of experience in the field of robotics or latency-sensitive backend services

    • Proven experience in machine learning and classification. Familiar with ML frameworks such as Tensorflow or PyTorch

    • Experience building highly performant ML and system pipelines

    • Strong programming skills in modern C++ or Python

    • Experience with profiling CPU and/or GPU software, process scheduling, and prioritization

    • Passionate about self-driving car technology and its impact on the world

    • Expertise in setting architectures that are scalable, efficient, fault-tolerant, and are easily extensible allowing for changes overtime without major disruptions.

    • Ability to design across multiple systems. Ability to both investigate in sophisticated areas as well as a good breadth of understanding of systems outside of your domain.

    • Ability to wear several hats shifting between coding, design, technical strategy, and mentorship combined with excellent judgment on when to switch contexts to meet the greatest need.

    • Track record in deploying perception/prediction/av models into real world environments

    • Experience working with RL and sequence prediction (ML) models

    Compensation : The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance with applicable state laws. The compensation may not be representative for positions located outside of New York, Colorado, California, or Washington.

    • The salary range for this role is $134,000 to $205,000. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.

    • Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.

    • 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.

    Relocation: This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.

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    Why you should apply for a job to General Motors:

  • 52% say women are treated fairly and equally to men
  • 85% say the CEO supports gender diversity
  • Ratings are based on anonymous reviews by Fairygodboss members.
  • Our Work Appropriately philosophy gives employees the flexibility to work where they can have the greatest impact to achieve their goals.
  • Our future is all electric and we aspire to zero tailpipe emissions by 2035.
  • Paid Family Leave provides employees up to 12 weeks of paid time off to support a new child or care for relatives with a health condition.