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In this role, you will lead a world-class team of distributed systems, data infrastructure, and platform software engineers building the core pipelines and storage backbones that transform and serve petabyte-scale autonomous vehicle telemetry.\nYour platform directly powers GM’s perception, planning, ML training, safety metrics, and simulation loops. You will sit at the intersection of cloud distributed infrastructure and downstream AI/ML pipelines, balancing operational rigor, high throughput, and cost-efficient cloud architecture.\nWhat You'll Do\nHands-On Engineering Delivery: Serve as a player-coach, contributing directly to technical design, implementation, and delivery while mentoring and guiding the broader engineering team.\nPeople & Team Leadership: Recruit, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of software and data engineers. Foster a culture of engineering excellence, code quality, and ownership.\nTechnical Strategy & Roadmap: Own the vision and architectural roadmap for the AV Data services including batch inference processing tools and streaming services for replay/simulation tools.\n Efficiency & Infrastructure Economics: Optimize cloud compute and storage footprint (AWS/Azure/GCP, S3 tiering, distributed caches) to balance high query performance with cost efficiencies.\n Reliability & Observability: Establish production-grade SLAs, monitoring, data lineage, and automated testing across all data services. 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Do not apply for this role if you will need GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future. This includes direct company sponsorship, entry of GM as the immigration employer of record on a government form, and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g., H1-B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc).\n\nThis role is categorized as hybrid. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location at least 3 times a week {or other frequency dictated by their manager}.\n\nRelocation benefits are available for candidates who qualify under company policy.\n\nAbout GM\nOur vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.\nWhy Join Us\nWe believe we all must make a choice every day - individually and collectively - to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.\nBenefits Overview\nFrom day one, we're looking out for your well-being-at work and at home-so you can focus on realizing your ambitions. Learn how GM supports a rewarding career that rewards you personally by visiting Total Rewards resources.\nNon-Discrimination and Equal Employment Opportunities (U.S.)\nGeneral Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of unlawful discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that providing an inclusive workplace creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers.\nAll 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.\nWe encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications for each role and apply for any positions that match their skills and capabilities. Applicants in the recruitment process may be required, where applicable, to successfully complete a role-related assessment(s) and/or a pre-employment screening prior to beginning employment. 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