Staff Software Engineer – AI for Developer Productivity

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About the role

  • Staff Software Engineer improving developer productivity through AI in GM's engineering workflows. Joining cross-functional teams to create scalable solutions impacting embedded software development.

Responsibilities

  • Define the technical vision for AI-powered developer productivity capabilities across engineering tools and workflows
  • Design, develop, and deliver AI-powered solutions that reduce manual effort, accelerate issue resolution, and improve software quality across development, debugging, test analysis, issue triage, documentation, and engineering support workflows
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to identify high-value AI use cases and translate them into scalable products, platforms, and reusable capabilities
  • Integrate AI-powered capabilities into engineering tools, workflows, and automation platforms in ways that improve reliability, usability, and adoption
  • Lead architecture and implementation decisions for AI systems spanning model access, orchestration, retrieval, evaluation, observability, security, and enterprise integration
  • Drive productionization of AI capabilities within GM engineering environments, including cloud-hosted services, internal platforms, CI/CD systems, and developer tools
  • Establish technical standards and best practices for responsible use of AI in engineering tools, including quality, traceability, maintainability, and cybersecurity considerations
  • Serve as a subject matter expert and technical leader across organizational boundaries, influencing roadmaps, solution direction, and implementation priorities
  • Mentor engineers on AI system design, prompt and workflow design, evaluation strategies, and toolchain integration without formal people-leader responsibility
  • Present strategy, progress, recommendations, and demonstrations to technical leaders and partner organizations.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field
  • 10+ years of experience in software engineering, developer tooling, platform engineering, machine learning engineering, applied AI, or a closely related field
  • Strong expertise building and shipping production software systems, with proficiency in Python and at least one additional language used in engineering tooling environments
  • Demonstrated expertise applying AI and LLM-based approaches to engineering problems such as code analysis, workflow automation, knowledge retrieval, summarization, troubleshooting, or developer productivity support
  • Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, system design, APIs, data flows, observability, and production operations
  • Experience integrating AI-powered capabilities into enterprise platforms, engineering tools, or CI/CD systems
  • Experience with cloud services, containerization, and orchestration technologies
  • Strong knowledge of secure engineering practices and responsible AI guardrails
  • Demonstrated success leading technically ambiguous, cross-functional efforts from concept through production deployment
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence technical direction across teams without formal authority
  • Experience with developer platforms, build systems, testing systems, or internal engineering tools
  • Experience balancing fast experimentation with production reliability, maintainability, and compliance.

Benefits

  • Paid time off including vacation days, holidays, and supplemental benefits for pregnancy, parental and adoption leave.
  • Healthcare, dental and vision benefits including health care spending account and wellness incentive.
  • Life insurance plans to cover you and your family.
  • Company and matching contributions to a Defined Contribution Pension plan to help you save for retirement.
  • GM Vehicle Purchase Plan for you, your family, and friends.

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$147,000 - $196,600 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

CloudCyber SecurityPython

Location requirements

HybridMarkhamCanada

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