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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