General Motors
Senior Platform Engineer – AV Cloud Engineering
$170K–$230K
Sunnyvale, California, United States of America +1 · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 5, 2026
- Location
- Sunnyvale, California, United States of America
Austin, Texas, United States of America - Experience
- 5+ years of experience, or a proven record of defining and executing technical strategy requiring coordination across multiple teams, senior executives, and front-line engineers.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
About the job
Build and operate an internal cloud platform that enables autonomous-vehicle teams to develop, test, and run workloads reliably with less operational friction.
What you'll do
- Develop platform capabilities, self-service workflows, APIs, automation, and infrastructure abstractions, including support for GPU workloads.
- Improve platform reliability and developer experience through tooling, service ownership, observability, SLIs/SLOs, and distributed-workload networking.
- Lead platform initiatives from definition through adoption and collaborate with other teams; contribute through reviews, mentorship, and technical communication.
What they ask for
- Production Kubernetes experience and familiarity with a major cloud ecosystem; GKE and GCP proficiency are specifically required elsewhere in the posting.
- Hands-on experience implementing high-availability systems and managing production-grade cluster lifecycles.
- Strong software engineering and DevOps skills, including Go or Python and Terraform.
- Experience with GPU passthrough and balancing hardware performance with cloud abstractions.
Nice to have
- Experience with Istio, large-scale DNS or traffic management, or equivalent service-mesh technologies.
- Experience supporting AI/ML workloads or working with ML platforms and tooling.
Pay
$170,000 to $230,000 USD base salary
Tools
Kubernetes, GKE, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Golang, Python, Terraform, Istio, AWS
AI focus
May support AI/ML workloads or ML platforms and related tooling; this is listed as preferred experience.
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