# AI/ML Engineer - Model Inference Source: https://realanalystjobs.com/job/ai-ml-engineer-model-inference-general-motors-37027468 AI/ML Engineer - Model Inference at General Motors, an on-site role based in Sunnyvale, California, USA. Pay stated in the posting: $117,700 and $221,400. Posted on 13 November 2026, read from General Motors' own careers page (Workday), which RealAnalystJobs re-checks daily and removes the role when it closes. General Motors has approved H-1B petitions on USCIS record (employer-wide, not a promise for this role). Updated 15 November 2026. ## Key facts - Company: [General Motors](https://realanalystjobs.com/companies/general-motors) - Location: Sunnyvale, California, USA - Work mode: On-site - Pay stated in the posting: $117,700 and $221,400 - Posted: Nov 13, 2026 - Employment type: Full time - Source: General Motors' careers page (Workday), re-checked daily ## Visa sponsorship The posting does not say. General Motors had H-1B petitions approved for 670 workers in fiscal year 2026 (USCIS). That is history, not a promise for this role. [See the record](https://realanalystjobs.com/companies/general-motors#h1b-record) ## About this role Job Description The Team Cola is part of GM’s autonomous vehicle effort, focused on helping teams discover, understand, and curate high-value data from large-scale real-world sensor streams. The team sits at the intersection of machine learning, data infrastructure, and developer productivity, building systems that make it easier to search for important scenarios, prepare training-ready data, and support fast iteration across perception and evaluation workflows. Our goal is to make world understanding scalable, practical, and cost efficient for embodied AI systems. We believe the next generation of autonomy and robotics depends not only on stronger models, but also on better infrastructure for turning massive volumes of multimodal data into reusable signals, searchable artifacts, and high-quality evaluation loops. That means building systems that can operate at industrial scale while preserving the flexibility to adapt quickly to new questions, new edge cases, and new model capabilities. A core idea behind how we work is EMWU, or Efficient Multi-Tier World Understanding. At a high level, EMWU is a cost-aware approach that first performs the cheapest reusable work, such as detection, featurization, and retrieval, and then applies deeper reasoning only where it adds meaningful value. This operating model reflects how Cola engineers think: build durable intermediate artifacts, design for scale from the start, and balance quality, speed, and cost instead of optimizing any one of them in isolation. The Role We are looking for a hands-on machine learning engineer to help build the data processing, featurization, and inference foundations that power scalable world understanding. This role is ideal for someone who is equally comfortable working on machine learning systems, production infrastructure, and evaluation loops, and who enjoys turning ambiguous problems into practical, reliable solutions. What You’ll Do • Design, build, and productionize data processing and featurization pipelines for large-scale multimodal data • Improve inference frameworks for computer vision and multimodal models, with a focus on reliability, extensibility, and operational simplicity • Drive scalability and cost efficiency across the end-to-end pipeline, including compute utilization, throughput, storage, and query performance • Work closely with partners across machine learning, infrastructure, and evaluation to deliver systems that support both rapid experimentation and production use • Develop and refine evaluation methods for model quality, retrieval quality, and system-level performance • Help shape technical direction through strong execution, thoughtful tradeoff analysis, and clear engineering judgment • Take ownership of ambiguous problem spaces, define practical paths forward, and move quickly from prototype to production • Operate with urgency and a strong bias toward execution velocity while maintaining a high bar for engineering quality Your Skills & Abilities • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience • Experience building production data processing or machine learning pipelines at scale • Experience with featurization, embedding, inference, or retrieval systems for vision or multimodal workloads • Strong understanding of computer vision models and the practical challenges of deploying them in production environments • Experience evaluating machine learning systems using clear metrics, experiments, and regression safeguards • Proven ability to work hands-on in fast-moving environments with incomplete information • Strong ownership mindset, sound technical judgment, and the ability to drive execution through ambiguity What Will Give You A Competitive Edge • Experience with world models or large-scale world understanding systems • Experience with simulation workflows or synthetic data systems • Experience with vector search, approximate nearest neighbor retrieval, or large-scale embedding infrastructure • Experience working on embodied AI, autonomous systems, or safety-critical machine learning applications Compensation • The salary range for this role is $117,700 and $221,400. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position (along with level.) • Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance. Benefits: • GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs. Benefit options include 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 and more. This role is based remotely, but if the selected candidate lives within a specific mile radius of a GM hub, they will be expected to report to the location three times a week {or other frequency dictated by your manager}. Relocation benefits are available for candidates who qualify under company policy. About GM 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. Why Join Us 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. Benefits Overview From day one, we're looking out for your well-being - at work and at home - so you can focus on realizing your ambitions. Learn how GM supports a rewarding career that rewards you personally by visiting Total Rewards resources . Non-Discrimination and Equal Employment Opportunities (U.S.) General Motors is com Description from General Motors' public careers feed, reproduced so you can read the role here. 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