About the Role
At General Motors, the Embodied AI team is building machine learning solutions that enable safe and reliable autonomous vehicle behavior across real-world scenarios. The Senior AI/ML Future Sensing Engineer will develop and evaluate ML and perception models, contribute to future sensing architecture decisions, and translate research into production-ready solutions.
What You’ll Do
- Develop and improve AI/ML solutions aligned with GM’s autonomous driving and future sensing objectives.
- Apply techniques such as unsupervised pre‑training, imitation learning, reinforcement learning, model scaling, and foundation modeling to solve problems in object detection, tracking, classification, perception, and safe AI.
- Develop and evaluate perception models and components for sensing studies involving cameras, lidar, radar, and multi‑modal sensor fusion.
- Implement and evaluate models, incorporating research advancements into practical applications.
- Contribute to model training, fine‑tuning, validation, debugging, and performance optimization for perception and sensor‑fusion tasks.
- Help define and implement robust metrics for detection, reconstruction, localization support, semantic labeling, and model robustness under varied environmental conditions.
- Work with real and synthetic data to evaluate sensing tradeoffs across weather, lighting, occlusion, sensor noise, clutter, and near‑field versus long‑range scenarios.
- Contribute to production pipelines and technical workflows spanning data loading, model evaluation, error analysis, and deployment‑oriented support.
- Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to integrate models and algorithms into onboard driving systems and future sensing evaluation workflows.
- Participate in code reviews, documentation, and technical discussions to support engineering quality and knowledge sharing.
Your Skills & Abilities
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Machine Learning, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience applying machine learning techniques to real‑world systems or large‑scale datasets.
- Experience building AI/ML or perception systems in autonomy, robotics, computer vision, or related domains.
- Proficiency in PyTorch and Python.
- Experience with model training pipelines or large‑scale data processing workflows.
- Strong data processing skills using NumPy, Pandas, and Apache Spark.
- Experience with model validation, debugging, and failure analysis in ML or perception settings.
- Experience with one or more perception domains such as object detection, segmentation, tracking, reconstruction, localization, or sensor fusion.
- Ability to collaborate effectively within cross‑functional engineering teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with perception sensors including cameras, radar, and lidar.
- Experience with multi‑modal sensor fusion and system integration.
- Experience with production ML pipelines, model optimization, and performance tuning.
- Experience with simulation, synthetic data, or scenario‑based evaluation.
- Experience with architecting sensory systems or contributing to sensor placement and configuration studies.
- Experience deploying ML models into production or working within production ML environments.
- Experience in automotive, robotics, or safety‑critical ML applications.
Remote / Hybrid
This role is categorized as fully remote or hybrid.
Compensation
The salary range for this role is $182,400.00 to $250,600.00. 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, including 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.
Equal Employment Opportunity
General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of unlawful discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. All employment decisions are made on a non‑discriminatory basis without regard to sex, race, color, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, pregnancy or maternity status, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran or protected veteran, or any other similarly protected status in accordance with federal, state and local laws.
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