General Motors · 4 weeks ago
Senior Capacity and Performance Engineer
Sunnyvale, California, United States of America
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$175K/yr - $225K/yr
3+ years expGeneral Motors is seeking a Senior Capacity and Performance Engineer to join their AV Capacity and Performance Engineering team. The role focuses on developing autonomous vehicles by providing input into large scale ML infrastructure strategy, advising on budget decisions, and executing optimization projects.
AutomotiveElectric VehicleInformation ServicesManufacturingTransportation
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
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred
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
Benefits
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
Company
General Motors
General Motors is an automotive company that designs, produces, markets, and distributes vehicles and vehicle parts.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$8.51BKey Investors
US Department of Energy
2025-05-05Post Ipo Debt· $2B
2024-10-31Grant· $8M
2024-07-11Grant· $500M
Leadership Team
Mary Barra
Chair and Chief Executive Officer
Tony Cervone
Senior Vice President, Global Communications
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