Senior Data Engineer

This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Austin Technical Center three times per week, at minimum [or other frequency dictated by the business if more than 3 days]., Vehicle Data Engineering is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and operate data products that transform connected-vehicle signals into trusted insights, health information, and proactive customer experiences. This role will work across real-time streaming, cloud data platforms, APIs, analytics, and artificial intelligence to deliver secure, reliable, and explainable data capabilities at scale.

The ideal candidate is a hands-on technical leader who can move from architecture to production implementation, improve engineering standards, and partner effectively with product, software, vehicle, cloud, analytics, and data-governance teams.

What You’ll Do

• Design and develop production-grade batch and real-time data pipelines for connected-vehicle telemetry, trip and session data, diagnostic signals, and vehicle-health indicators.
• Build streaming applications that ingest, enrich, validate, deduplicate, curate, and publish event-driven data for downstream services, notifications, reporting, and analytics.
• Develop reliable data products using Apache Flink, Apache Spark Structured Streaming, Java, Python, and SQL.
• Work with Azure services including Azure Kubernetes Service, Event Hubs, Azure Data Explorer, Azure Key Vault, Azure Databricks, Azure Monitor, and Application Insights.
• Design and maintain data contracts, schemas, APIs, and event models using GraphQL, REST, gRPC, JSON, and cloud-event patterns.
• Apply artificial intelligence and machine learning to data engineering problems such as anomaly detection, data-quality triage, predictive health signals, intelligent operations, and engineering productivity.
• Build or integrate generative artificial intelligence capabilities, including large language model applications, embeddings, vector search, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic workflows, prompt engineering, evaluation, and safety guardrails.
• Create automated tests, performance benchmarks, integration tests, and validation checks for high-volume data and event-driven systems.
• Establish observability with OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, dashboards, monitors, service-level objectives, and actionable alerts.
• Secure data in transit and at rest and apply privacy, consent, retention, lineage, access-control, and regional compliance requirements to vehicle and location data.
• Automate infrastructure and delivery using Kubernetes, Helm, Argo CD, Terraform, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, incident response, root-cause analysis, operational readiness, and on-call support as needed.
• Mentor engineers, raise technical standards, document design decisions, and contribute to a culture of quality, ownership, and continuous improvement.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, data engineering, information systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of professional experience in data engineering, software engineering, distributed systems, or a related field.
• Strong hands-on experience with Java or Python, SQL, object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms, and automated testing.
• Experience designing and operating production data pipelines using Apache Flink, Apache Spark, Kafka, Azure Event Hubs, or comparable streaming technologies.
• Experience with cloud-native development on Microsoft Azure and containerized workloads running on Kubernetes.
• Experience with Databricks, Delta Lake, distributed data processing, data modeling, and performance optimization.
• Experience designing APIs and event-driven systems using GraphQL, REST, gRPC, asynchronous HTTP clients, or equivalent technologies.
• Experience with schema evolution, data contracts, data-quality validation, lineage, observability, and privacy-aware data handling.
• Demonstrated experience applying machine learning, artificial intelligence, or generative artificial intelligence in a production engineering, analytics, or data-product environment.
• Working knowledge of large language models, embeddings, vector databases or vector search, retrieval-augmented generation, prompt design, model evaluation, and responsible artificial intelligence practices.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex distributed systems and communicate technical decisions clearly to both technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative, agile, cross-functional environment.

What Can Give You a Competitive Advantage (Preferred Qualifications)

• Master’s degree in computer science, data science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, or a related field.
• Experience building multi-agent or agentic systems for data analysis, data operations, engineering support, or customer-facing insights.
• Experience with Databricks artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities, MLflow, model registries, feature stores, vector search, or model-serving platforms.
• Experience designing retrieval-augmented generation systems, including chunking, embedding strategies, hybrid retrieval, reranking, grounding, citation, offline evaluation, online evaluation, and hallucination mitigation.
• Experience applying generative artificial intelligence to data observability, incident summarization, root-cause analysis, schema mapping, documentation generation, or pipeline remediation.
• Experience with time-series data, vehicle telemetry, geospatial data, diagnostics, predictive maintenance, anomaly detection, or other high-volume sensor data.
• Experience with Azure OpenAI Service or comparable large language model platforms and with securing enterprise AI workloads.
• Experience with Python data and machine-learning libraries such as pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, PyTorch, or equivalent tools.
• Experience with Terraform, Helm, Argo CD, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or comparable DevOps platforms.
• Experience with OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, distributed tracing, service-level objectives, and production reliability engineering.
• Knowledge of data catalogs, governance platforms, consent management, privacy engineering, and regional data-retention requirements.
• Strong technical leadership, mentoring, influencing, documentation, and cross-functional communication skills.
• Demonstrated initiative, sound judgment, accountability, curiosity, and ability to simplify complex problems.

• The expected base compensation for this role is: $125,000 - $191,500. Actual base compensation within the identified range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.
• 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.

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