Engineering Manager, Build Platform

General Motors is a leading automotive company focused on innovation and sustainability. They are seeking an Engineering Manager for the Build Platform to lead a team responsible for enhancing the development tools and processes for AI and AV engineers, ensuring high productivity and effective collaboration across the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the team responsible for improvements to our C++ / Python / AI development ecosystem and workflows, which have a measurable and direct impact on engineering productivity
• Collaborate with engineers across the company to understand and support their development workflows
• Own technical projects from start to finish and be responsible for major technical decisions and tradeoffs
• Drive complex projects that span teams, with many partners and customers
• Effectively drive planning, code reviews, and design discussions
• Contribute impactful projects to the team’s roadmap, and work to load balance across the team with respect to motivations and career needs
• Thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative work environment where impact is a result of your efforts and where your contribution is highly visible
• Drive software engineering best practices both within our team and across engineering
• Mentor and drive career conversations for engineers on the team
• Conduct technical interviews with well-calibrated standards and play a crucial role in recruiting activities
• Be a positive contributor to our team culture

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience leading design, buildout, and operation of production systems at scale in the cloud
• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience
• Experience with / knowledge of developer tooling, build systems, C++, Python, etc
• Experience with / knowledge of compiler toolchain integrations (clang, gcc, nvcc, etc.)
• Experience leading teams with broad, company-wide impact
• Attention to detail, and a desire to improve processes & systems around you
• Deep understanding of the business and operational impact for different technology tradeoffs
• Passion for developing and growing individual contributors
• Passion for leading with empathy, and developing a healthy team culture of balance and inclusion
• Passion for self-driving technology and its potential impact on the world
• 3+ years of experience managing software engineering teams
• Experience programming with C++, Python, or Go
• Experience with static and dynamic analysis tools (e.g., axivion, valgrind, asan, tsan, etc.)
• Experience with build systems such as Bazel or Buck
• Experience with ML ecosystem frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, CUDA tools, etc.)
• Experience with cloud infrastructure