Principal ML Engineer - Embodied AI Scaling Foundations
General Motors1 day ago
Responsibilities
- Design and implement technologies that improve autonomous-driving models.
- Develop novel data-curation algorithms and pre-training, post-training, and fine-tuning recipes.
- Build and scale data-processing and model-training pipelines across real and synthetic datasets.
- Apply unsupervised pre-training, imitation learning, reinforcement learning, guidance, and selection techniques.
- Integrate foundation-model distillation recipes into onboard driving models.
- Deploy foundation models into production environments and support end-to-end delivery.
- Lead projects from ideation through deployment and document learnings and best practices.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and mentor junior ML engineers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in Computer Science focused on Robotics or Machine Learning, or a related field.
- Proven experience with large-scale foundation models and alignment methods.
- Proven experience delivering applied research in real-world environments under tight deadlines.
- Proficiency with PyTorch and Python.
- Experience building and scaling performant large-model training pipelines for distributed teams.
- Strong data-processing skills using NumPy, Pandas, and Apache Spark.
- Experience deploying foundation models into production environments and understanding the end-to-end process.
- Previous experience in robotics or autonomous driving.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation and holidays, tuition assistance, employee assistance program, and GM vehicle discounts.
- Eligible employees may participate in a company vehicle evaluation program after a successful motor vehicle report review, subject to vehicle purchase or lease requirements.
- The role is fully remote or hybrid.
- The job may be eligible for relocation benefits.
Tech Stack
Categories
ML EngineeringRobotics
About General Motors
General Motors designs, manufactures, and sells cars, trucks, and electric vehicles for consumers and commercial fleets under brands including Chevrolet, GMC, Cadillac, and Buick. A public company on the NYSE headquartered in Detroit and founded in 1908, it operates globally and is developing EVs on its Ultium battery platform. Revenue comes from vehicle and parts sales, connected services such as OnStar, and financing through GM Financial.