Sr. Software Engineer - Agent Platform

Description
The Role:
We are seeking a Sr. Software Engineer to lead the agent platform - GM's ML assistant for experiment automation and infrastructure debugging. You will own the architecture and implementation of the LLM-plus-tools system that helps ML engineers submit, monitor, debug, and evaluate experiments with high reliability and low latency.
What You'll Do:

• Own architecture, implementation, and operations for the agent orchestrator, skills, tools, and APIs.

• Design and evolve a multi - agent / skills architecture with clear contracts, schemas, and validation between agents and tools.

• Build ML experiment lifecycle skills :

• Queue-aware experiment submission and CI/CD integration o Async job monitoring and alerting across logs/metrics/job state o Failure diagnosis and recovery (classification, auto-fix, resubmit) o Convergence review and evaluation report generation.

• Implement integrations with experiment metadata, observability stacks, CI/CD, GPU queues, identity, and auth .

• Establish end - to - end observability for Agent: traces, metrics, dashboards, and quality signals (e.g., routing accuracy, evidence coverage, hallucination rate, latency).

• Raise the bar on safety and correctness for LLM+tools:

• Routing guards, entity resolution, and post-synthesis validation o PII-safe logging, secret handling, and robust access control.

• Define and maintain APIs and event schemas that make agents easy to integrate into other tools and workflows.

• Drive projects from requirements → design → implementation → rollout → continuous improvement .

• Set engineering standards and mentor other engineers on the team.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• At least 7+ years of experience building production-level frontend applications using React, Angular, WebGL or similar frameworks

• Strong understanding of JavaScript/TypeScript and dynamic frontend fundamentals

• Experience building, deploying, and operating high-availability services

• Led large technical initiatives from idea to operationalization and continuous evolution of technical solution to enable new business capabilities and improve efficiencies

• Ability to identify broad challenges (technical, functional, business challenges) worth tackling, and parse them into initiatives within and across engineering teams

• Experience creating ground up enterprise architecture, systems architecture, integration architecture standards, frameworks, and practices

• Programming experience in Python, Java, Go

• Experience working with cloud infrastructure, automations, configuration management, artifact management and building advanced CI/CD solutions

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 $170,600- $261,300. 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.

This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location at least 3 times a week {or other frequency dictated by their manager}.
This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.
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