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About the Role
As a Principal Engineer, AI Acceleration at General Motors, you will identify high-leverage opportunities and design, build, and scale AI-powered tools to measurably improve how people work. This hands-on technical leadership role operates at the intersection of software engineering, AI/LLM capabilities, product thinking, and organizational change, focusing on shipping tools that deliver significant improvements.
Responsibilities
- Find high-leverage opportunities by embedding with teams to identify areas where AI can create a step-change in speed, quality, or user experience.
- Prototype and deliver working solutions quickly, validate value with users, and move successful prototypes into production.
- Build solutions using GM-approved AI and enterprise technologies, integrating with existing systems.
- Apply strong engineering discipline, establishing practices for requirements, architecture, testing, observability, security, privacy, deployment, and incident response.
- Partner with security, legal, privacy, and risk stakeholders to set practical guardrails for safe and responsible AI use.
- Measure business impact by defining success metrics and evaluating time saved, quality, adoption, cycle time, cost, and user satisfaction.
- Scale successful implementations into reusable architectures, patterns, components, documentation, and enablement.
- Provide technical leadership through mentoring engineers, raising quality bars via reviews, and communicating tradeoffs to technical and executive audiences.
Requirements
- 10+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including delivery of production software.
- Demonstrated experience serving as a Principal Engineer, senior technical leader, or equivalent role with cross-organizational influence.
- Hands-on experience designing and building AI- or LLM-enabled applications, agents, or automations across a wide range of AI tools and models.
- Strong understanding of LLM application patterns, including prompting, retrieval-augmented generation, tool use, context management, model selection, evaluation, and observability.
- Experience integrating AI solutions with enterprise applications, APIs, data sources, identity systems, and workflow platforms.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including architecture, APIs, distributed systems, testing, CI/CD, monitoring, security, and operational excellence.
- Ability to translate ambiguous business problems into clear product and technical strategies and deliver solutions through iterative development.
- Demonstrated ability to use data and user feedback to prioritize work and evaluate impact.
- Demonstrated success helping people and teams adopt and continue using AI tools.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence executives, technical experts, and frontline users.
- Comfortable operating with a high degree of autonomy, making decisions with incomplete information, and taking accountability for outcomes.
- A high bar for quality and craft.
Skills
- AI
- LLM
- Software Engineering
- Product Thinking
- Organizational Change
- Prompting
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation
- Tool Use
- Context Management
- Model Selection
- Evaluation
- Observability
- API Integration
- Enterprise Application Integration
- Data Source Integration
- Identity Systems Integration
- Workflow Platform Integration
- Architecture
- Distributed Systems
- Testing
- CI/CD
- Monitoring
- Security
- Operational Excellence
- Iterative Development
- Data Analysis
- User Feedback Analysis
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Influencing
- Autonomy
- Decision Making
- Accountability
- Quality Assurance
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Remote
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Principal Engineer
- Senior Technical Leader
- 10+ years of progressive software engineering experience
Benefits
- GM supports a rewarding career that rewards you personally by visiting Total Rewards resources.
- From day one, we're looking out for your well-being–at work and at home.
About the Company
- Core IT is responsible for delivering and maintaining the technology, platforms, and services that help teams across GM do their best work.
- Our goal is to provide secure, reliable, and seamless technology that helps employees spend less time navigating friction and more time solving the problems that matter most in their domains.
- 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.