Lead a team responsible for the reliability of hybrid cloud systems, defining SLOs/SLIs, managing on-prem utilities, and ensuring environment integrity for autonomous vehicle operations.
Description
The Role:
As the Senior Engineering Manager for Hybrid Services & Reliability (HSR) within AV Core Infrastructure (ACI) at GM, you are the architect of our system trust. You will lead a newly seeded team responsible for the measurable availability of the hybrid cloud systems that underlie all autonomous vehicle development and operations. We need a leader who views reliability not as an afterthought, but as an inherent property of the platform, ensuring that all teams have a stable and ready-state engineering environment. You are comfortable operating systems at scale, not just designing them.
What you'll do
Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)
Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)
Compensation: The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance with applicable state laws. The compensation may not be representative for positions located outside of New York, Colorado, California, or Washington.
Benefits:
Relocation: This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.
Hybrid: This role is based hybrid from Sunnyvale you are expected to report to that location three times a week, at minimum.
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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.
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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.
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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. To learn more, visit How we Hire.
Accommodations
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 [email protected] or call us at 1-800-865-7580. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.
The Role:
As the Senior Engineering Manager for Hybrid Services & Reliability (HSR) within AV Core Infrastructure (ACI) at GM, you are the architect of our system trust. You will lead a newly seeded team responsible for the measurable availability of the hybrid cloud systems that underlie all autonomous vehicle development and operations. We need a leader who views reliability not as an afterthought, but as an inherent property of the platform, ensuring that all teams have a stable and ready-state engineering environment. You are comfortable operating systems at scale, not just designing them.
What you'll do
- Reliability Engineering: Define, measure, and enforce strict SLOs/SLIs for critical hybrid cloud services, including network connectivity and compute readiness.
- Foundational Utilities: Own and manage core on-prem utilities, such as DHCP, PXE, and CDN, to ensure seamless server auto-provisioning across the global fleet.
- Environment Integrity: Manage the entire data flow path, from initial ingestion at the test bench through the secure cloud network into production staging.
- HIL Readiness: Guarantee the 99%+ availability and stability of remote CI-based Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) benches required for AV safety validation.
- Organization Growth: Actively lead the recruitment and technical mentorship of Senior and Staff ICs as part of the team's expansion.
Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)
- Required: Extensive background in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and defining SLO/SLI frameworks for hybrid cloud environments.
- Required: Technical proficiency in managing on-prem Linux utilities (DHCP/PXE/NTP) and core development services.
- Required: Opinionated view on automated observability, incident response, and MTTR reduction.
- Required: Proven leadership experience.
Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)
- Experience with configuration management tools (e.g., Chef, Ansible) for large-scale, remote hardware fleets.
Compensation: The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance with applicable state laws. The compensation may not be representative for positions located outside of New York, Colorado, California, or Washington.
- The salary range for this role is $201,600 to $302,000. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this 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.
Benefits:
- 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.
Relocation: This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.
Hybrid: This role is based hybrid from Sunnyvale you are expected to report to that location three times a week, at minimum.
#GM-AV-1
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.
Total Rewards | 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 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. To learn more, visit How we Hire.
Accommodations
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 [email protected] or call us at 1-800-865-7580. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.
Top Skills
Ansible
Chef
Configuration Management Tools
Dhcp
Hybrid Cloud
Linux
Ntp
Pxe
Site Reliability Engineering
Slo Frameworks
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