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General Motors

Robot type
Autonomous Vehicle
Location
SunnyvaleCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Software
Posted
Sep 7, 2026
Salary
$170,000–$230,000 a year
Full-time

Senior Platform Engineer – AV Cloud Engineering

Job description

We are hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to join the Autonomous Vehicle (AV) Cloud Engineering team within AV Core Infrastructure. AV Cloud Engineering owns core IaaS and PaaS capabilities that support autonomous vehicle development and runtime environments.

This role is for an engineer who treats cloud infrastructure as a product and is motivated by building a reliable, easy-to- consume platform that helps AV engineers build, test, and run faster with less operational friction. You will work on the platform capabilities, abstractions, and self-service workflows that power AV workloads at scale.

Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the…

Job requirements

  • Required: Fully qualified proficiency in Kubernetes (GKE) and the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) ecosystem, including VPC, IAM, etc.
  • Required: Hands-on experience implementing high-availability systems and managing the lifecycle of production-grade clusters.
  • Required: Strong proficiency in software engineering and DevOps principles, specifically using Golang/Python and Terraform.
  • Required: Ability to operate independently in an ambiguous environment and translate high-level requirements into clear technical tasks.
  • Required: A "Growth-based Mindset" with a commitment to continuous upskilling and a belief that team capacities are developed through effort and coaching.
  • Required: Professional experience managing the trade-offs between hardware-level performance (GPU passthrough) and clean cloud abstractions.
  • Preferred: Experience with Service Mesh (Istio) and managing large-scale DNS/Traffic configurations in a global environment.
  • 5+ years of experience or proven record of defining and executing technical strategy that required coordination across multiple teams, senior executives, and front-line engineers

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