Drimva

General Motors

Senior AI-Centric Release & Automation Software Engineer

$153K–$234K

Sunnyvale, California, United States of America · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 8, 2026

Education
Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or a related field—or equivalent experience.

About the job

Designs automation and AI-enabled workflows that improve validation, quality, visibility, and release readiness for autonomous-vehicle software.

What you'll do

  • Build and maintain CI/CD integrations and automated release-validation pipelines covering simulation, hardware-in-loop, regression, and release testing.
  • Develop AI-enabled tools and data pipelines for test analysis, failure classification, defect triage, reporting, and workflow orchestration.
  • Establish evaluation and governance practices, and measure the impact of automation on release readiness and engineering productivity.

What they ask for

  • Strong proficiency in Python and SQL.
  • Proven experience with CI/CD systems and hands-on experience developing ELT/ETL pipelines integrating engineering, QA, simulation, and operational data.
  • Experience applying AI, machine learning, or LLM-based solutions to engineering productivity, test analysis, defect triage, documentation, or decision-making, and evaluating their outputs.
  • Experience integrating simulation or hardware-in-loop testing into automated pipelines; track record of cross-functional collaboration.

Nice to have

  • Experience developing AI agents, copilots, retrieval-augmented generation systems, or intelligent engineering tools.
  • Knowledge of AV/ADAS software, release governance, cloud environments, or reliability engineering.

Pay

$153,200 to $234,100 USD base salary

Tools

Python, SQL, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab, Jira, GitHub Projects, AWS

AI focus

Applies AI, machine learning, and LLM-based tools to engineering workflows, including test analysis, failure classification, defect triage, documentation, reporting, and workflow orchestration; evaluates and governs these solutions.

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