Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform (Autonomous Vehicles)

General Motors•Austin, TX

20h•Hybrid

About The Position

This role is categorized as hybrid, requiring the successful candidate to report to offices in Austin, TX, Mountain View, CA, or the Greater Seattle Area three times per week, at minimum. The position is for a highly skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer to join the Autonomous Vehicles team. In this role, the engineer will play a critical part in designing, developing, and maintaining robust data platforms essential for the development and deployment of self-driving car technology.

Requirements

BA or BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or another relevant field; or equivalent real-world experience.
7+ years in building petabyte-scale distributed data platforms, specifically evolving Data Lakes into Lakehouses using major cloud providers and open-source frameworks.
Expert-level proficiency in Java, C++, or Python, with a proven track record of designing and implementing robust, distributed systems.
Expertise in implementing Data Processing Frameworks (Beam, Spark) and serving layers optimized for high-throughput, low-latency delivery.
Experience optimizing services for cost efficiency, performance & reliability.
Experience with Micro services architecture and proven ability to manage the full operational lifecycle of systems.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with full ML model lifecycle (feature engineering, training, validation, deployment, monitoring, etc.).
Passionate about self-driving technology and its potential impact on the world.
Experience delivering (100+) petabyte-scale ingestion, processing, and serving architectures.
Experience with SQL engines / queries.

Responsibilities

Design & develop the next generation distributed ML data platform (Ingestion, Processing, Serving) using GCP and open-source frameworks.
Collaborate with stakeholders (ML & Data Engineers), translate needs & pain points into requirements, build self-serve capabilities and drive adoption.
Deliver e2e technical projects owning major technical decisions and tradeoffs & contribute to the team’s strategic roadmap.
Champion engineering & operational excellence by continuously improving systems and processes.
Actively participate in team’s planning, code reviews and design discussions.
Conduct technical interviews, onboard new and mentor junior engineers.