Senior Capacity and Performance Engineer

GM • Sunnyvale, CA

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

About the Role GM is looking for a Senior Capacity and Performance Engineer to join the AV Capacity and Performance Engineering team to support our critical efforts in developing autonomous vehicles. The mission of the AVCPE team is to provide input into large scale ML infrastructure strategy, advise on key decisions affecting our cloud budget, identify and execute optimization projects, and provide capacity planning and performance engineering expertise to support GM’s efforts in developing autonomous vehicles (AV).

Requirements

• 3+ years or relevant work experience.
• Bachelors Degree in Computer science or related field or relevant work experience
• Proficient in coding with modern languages
• Proficient in BI platforms
• Experience with data modeling and working with SQL on large datasets
• Experience with performance testing, monitoring, and analysis tools
• Good understanding of distributed systems including modern ML system architecture and design

Nice To Haves

• 5+ years of relevant work experience
• Proficient in coding with Python (our preferred language)
• Prior experience with modern ML system architecture and design
• Proficient in Looker and BigQuery
• Prior performance testing experience in benchmarking ML workloads in large GPU (200+) environments
• Prior experience with analyzing billing and usage data in GCP, Azure, or AWS

Responsibilities

• Develop and refine technical models for capacity planning for GM’s AV infrastructure
• Design and build automated analytical tools for monitoring capacity and demand signals
• Partner with AI/ML engineering, infrastructure engineering, and cloud vendors to proactively identify and drive optimization projects to increase engineering and cost efficiencies
• Design and execute performance benchmarks to measure capacity limits of our systems from ML training platforms to inference services to infrastructure components

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees