About the Role
We're looking for a hands-on Staff Data Engineer to build the next generation of telematics data products that power analytics, AI, and decision-making across the enterprise. This role sits at the intersection of data architecture, analytics, and platform engineering, focusing on creating trusted, reusable, analytics-ready data products from complex telemetry data.
Responsibilities
- Design and build reusable telematics data products that make analytics faster, simpler, and more scalable across the enterprise.
- Design canonical data products that make telematics data easier to understand, join, and reuse.
- Build curated analytics-ready datasets that standardize metrics, aggregations, and business logic across teams.
- Turn repeated analytical work into scalable, reusable data products.
- Use data usage patterns and adoption signals to help prioritize the data product roadmap.
- Design and implement scalable solutions in Azure Databricks.
- Improve performance, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
- Enable self-service analytics by making data easier to discover, trust, and consume.
- Build data products that support analytics, machine learning, and AI use cases.
- Help define how a large-scale telematics platform supports analytics, AI, and enterprise decision-making.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related technical field.
- 8+ years of experience in data engineering or analytics platforms, including experience operating at a senior or staff level with responsibility for architecture, technical direction, and cross-team impact.
- Deep hands-on experience with Databricks.
- Strong data modeling, semantic design, and data architecture skills.
- Expertise in SQL, Spark, and distributed data processing.
- Experience designing solutions for performance, scalability, reliability, and cost optimization.
- Strong understanding of how analysts, engineers, data scientists, and ML practitioners consume data.
- Experience working with IoT, telemetry, event-stream, or sensor data.
- Experience enabling AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics through governed and reusable data products.
- Builder mindset with strong technical judgment and a bias toward simplification.
Skills
- Databricks
- SQL
- Spark
- Distributed data processing
- IoT
- Telemetry
- Event-stream data
- Sensor data
- Data modeling
- Semantic design
- Data architecture
Location
- Warren Global Technical Center
- Austin Technical Center
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Staff level
- 8+ years of experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
- Master's degree
Salary/Compensations
- $160,200 - $211,950
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
- Relocation benefits
- Company vehicle evaluation program
About the Company
- Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.
- We believe we all must make a choice every day – individually and collectively – to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.
Equal Opportunity
- General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of unlawful discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that providing an inclusive workplace creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers.
- All employment decisions are made on a non-discriminatory basis without regard to sex, race, color, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, pregnancy or maternity status, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran or protected veteran, or any other similarly protected status in accordance with federal, state and local laws.
- We encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications for each role and apply for any positions that match their skills and capabilities.
- Applicants in the recruitment process may be required, where applicable, to successfully complete a role-related assessment(s) and/or a pre-employment screening prior to beginning employment.
- General Motors offers opportunities to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email us or call us at 1-800-865-7580. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.
