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The Smart Agents group workclosely with the rest of the Simulation, and our partners Behaviors, Perception, and Safety Engineers.\nThe specific duties may include ML/RL model development as well as training loop development, streamlining optimization, integration, creating ML infrastructure, metrics, and datapipelinesforproductionmodel deploymentas well as for fast experimentation cycles.\nWhat You'll Do:\nSupport the team in developingmachine learning (ML) and reinforcement learning (RL) models, including training loop development and optimization.\n\nStreamline integration and create ML infrastructure, metrics, and data pipelines for production model deployment and rapid experimentation.\n\nWork as part of an ML team and contribute strong software engineering (SWE) expertise.\n\nSupport the ML team in accelerating project timelines, particularly in areas related to Autopilot, Lane Keep, and autonomous vehicle (AV) technologies.\n\nExperience in simulation and robotics is highly desirable, with a preference for candidates from AV or robotics backgrounds rather than solely cloud-focused companies.\n\nYour Skills & Abilities:\n4+ years of experience in the field of robotics or latency-sensitive backend services\n\nBackground working with machine learning teams, algorithms, and models\n\nBonus: Experience building highly performant ML and system pipelines\n\nStrong programming skills in modern C++ or Python\n\nBonus:\nExperience with profiling CPU and/or GPU software, process scheduling, and prioritization\n\nPassionate about self-driving car technology and its impact on the world\n\nExpertisein setting architectures that are scalable, efficient, fault-tolerant, and are easily extensible allowing for changes overtime without major disruptions.\n\nAbility to design across multiple systems. Ability to both investigatein sophisticated areas as well as a good breadth of understanding of systems outside of your domain.\n\nAbility to wear several hats shifting between coding, design, technical strategy, and mentorship combined with excellent judgment on when to switch contexts to meet the greatest need.\n\nTrack recordin deploying perception/prediction/av models into real world environments\n\nYour Skills & Abilities:\n4+ years of experience in the field of robotics or latency-sensitive backend services\n\nProven experience in machine learning and classification. Familiar with ML frameworks such as Tensorflowor PyTorch\n\nExperience building highly performant ML and system pipelines\n\nStrong programming skills in modern C++ or Python\n\nExperience with profiling CPU and/or GPU software, process scheduling, and prioritization\n\nPassionate about self-driving car technology and its impact on the world\n\nExpertisein setting architectures that are scalable, efficient, fault-tolerant, and are easily extensible allowing for changes overtime without major disruptions.\n\nAbility to design across multiple systems. Ability to both investigatein sophisticated areas as well as a good breadth of understanding of systems outside of your domain.\n\nAbility to wear several hats shifting between coding, design, technical strategy, and mentorship combined with excellent judgment on when to switch contexts to meet the greatest need.\n\nTrack recordin deploying perception/prediction/avmodels into real world environments\n\nExperience working with RL and sequence prediction (ML) models\n\nCompensation: The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance withapplicable state laws. The compensation may not be representative for positions locatedoutside of New York, Colorado, California, or Washington.\nThe salary range for this role is $144,700 to $284,100. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.\n\nBonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.\n\nBenefits: 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.\n\nRemote: This role is based remotely but if you live within a 50-mile radius of Atlanta, Austin, Detroit, Warren,Milfordor Mountain View, youare expected to report to that location three times a week, at minimum.\nRelocation: This job may be eligible for relocation benefits. \n\nGM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. 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\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. To learn more, visit How we Hire.\nAccommodations\nGeneral Motors offers opportunities to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email us or call us at 1-800-865-7580. 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