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Why GMF Technology?
Innovation isn’t just a talking point at GM Financial, it’s how we operate. From generative AI and cloud-native technologies to peer-led learning and hackathons, our tech teams are building real solutions that make a difference. We’re committed to AI-powered transformation, using advanced machine learning and automation to help us reimagine customer interactions and modernize operations, positioning GM Financial as a leader in digital innovation within a dynamic industry.
Join us and discover a workplace where your ideas matter, your development is prioritized, and you can truly make a global impact.
This position will be posted until filled.
About the Role
Apply AI/ML Engineering, Data Science, and Data Engineering practices to design, develop, test, launch, and maintain ML and LLM Operations capabilities. This position requires an understanding of the Data Science model development and Gen AI/LLM driven workflow lifecycle, MLFlow features, and the benefits of AI/ML product development and deployment. A general understanding of cloud architectures, software development principles CI/CD, deployment, APIs, microservices, Data and Dev ops, and Event-driven architectures is highly desirable. The ability to deliver solutions that are based on a business understanding is essential. Key responsibilities include enabling ML model and LLM-driven automation, and deployment to meet operational requirements like scalability, robustness, reusability, reproducibility, compliance, and responsible AI. This position requires expertise and passion for working in agile teams to plan effectively, collaborating with broader cross-functional teams, and successfully deliver mission-critical Data and AI projects. The Senior Machine Learning Operations Engineer is the subject matter expert in MLOps and LLMOps. They have good understanding of tools and technologies used to manage AI and ML Model Lifecycles. Provide technical support and coach junior ML Ops engineers.
In this role you will:
- Develop enterprise-wide and scalable cloud-based MLOps, LLMOps capabilities that span the full life cycle of Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Generative AI models
- Develop reusable, secure, and robust AI and ML pipelines, monitor model performance, monitor data drift, utilize insights to train models, enable automatic audit trails, LLM traces creation for all artifacts, deploy across a wide range of business applications, and sustain a high level of automation across all AI/ML lifecycle activities. This includes developing code and making sure that AI/ML models are production ready
- Continuously improve the speed, quality, and efficiency of model/experiments development, production, and maintenance
- Collaborate with Model Management/Governance to develop and maintain enterprise-wide MLOps and LLMOps standards
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders and vendors in developing MLOps and LLMOps solutions that meet business requirements across a variety of areas including, but not limited to, Data Science, IT, Cybersecurity, Compliance, and Legal
- Maintain up to date knowledge about the latest advances in AI and ML Engineering, engage stakeholders, and champion proactive measures to sustain a cost effective, efficient, and innovative MLOps and LLMOps capabilities
- Develop and maintain a deep understanding of business requirements to ensure that MLOps and LLMOps solutions deliver practical and timely value
- Conduct AI and ML Engineering research and proof of concept projects to improve practice and develop business cases that support business needs
- Develop and apply algorithms that generate success metrics to improve the value of MLOps and LLMOps business function
- Presents findings and analysis for use in decision making and demonstrate bottom-line financial benefits (ROI)
- Collaborate with Business Teams, Data Architects, Data Engineers, Data Science and Cloud Solution Architects in developing solutions
- Prioritizes tasks and meets project deadlines in a fast-paced work environment
What makes you an ideal candidate?
- Proven experience in Azure ecosystem across the full AI/ML lifecycle with end-to-end automation (MLOps, LLMOPs), including ingestion and validation, dataset/version management, lineage and metadata tracking, feature engineering, experiment tracking, training, evaluation, pipeline-based validation gates, Responsible AI reviews, model registration, containerized deployment, event-driven monitoring, and integration like MLflow on Databricks or Azure Machine Learning
- Hands-on experience operationalizing GenAI solutions, including LLM application patterns such as Deep Research/RAG, prompt/version management, embedding workflows, model and prompt evaluation, safety/content filtering, human-in-the-loop review, and production monitoring (Tracing and Evaluations) for quality, latency, and cost
- Ability to understand and clearly articulate trade-offs of various approaches to solving AI and machine learning platforms e.g., Databricks vs. Azure ML pipelines, batch vs. streaming, AKS vs. Managed Serving endpoints, cost vs. performance, governance vs. speed
- Experience with event-driven architecture and streaming using Azure Event Hubs and Azure Function Apps
- Working knowledge in Azure DevOps or equivalent including GitHub Repos, Boards, CI/CD and other related functionality
- Experience delivering in agile environments (preferably SAFe) and partnering effectively with Data Science, Data Engineering, Application Engineering, Data Privacy and Security teams
- Strong software engineering fundamentals (testing, code quality, packaging, reusable modules, infrastructure-as-code mindset, observability, and secure-by-default design)
- Experience with large-scale data and lakehouse ecosystems, including Azure Databricks, Spark, and Delta-lake engines; Strong quantitative, analytical and data interpretation skills with a solid foundation of mathematics, probability, and statistics
- Ability to program in Python and SQL
- Experience with cloud deployment and runtime operations using Docker and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS); familiarity with GitOps and environment promotion patterns is a plus
- Experience building/hosting ML and GenAI services using Azure App Services and/or AKS (APIs, asynchronous workers, scheduled jobs), with attention to reliability and production readiness
- Familiarity with the Azure AI ecosystem, including Azure AI Foundry, AI Services, Azure ML, and enterprise governance for model access, secrets, and data protection
- Strong applied ML understanding (e.g., regression, tree-based methods, neural networks, NLP) and the ability to translate business problems into measurable metrics and experiments
- Experience with BI/analytics tools (especially Power BI) and awareness of Data and Analytics platforms such as Azure Databricks
- Rapid prototyping and experimentation using low-code/no-code GenAI tools (e.g., Microsoft Copilot Studio) to quickly validate use cases, iterate on conversational flows, and transition successful prototypes into production-grade implementations
- Experience accelerating daily workflows with GenAI coding assistants (e.g., Databricks Genie, GitHub Copilot) while maintaining engineering rigor through code review, testing, security controls, and CI/CD
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex concepts to senior stakeholders and connect technical delivery to measurable business and financial outcomes
- Proven ability to manage multiple workstreams in a time-sensitive environment and collaborate to solve problems creatively
- Experience/certification in Azure, Azure AI, ML, Databricks, or equivalent such as AWS and GCP, MLOps, Data architecture, container orchestration, streaming, H2O, Spark, and Linux
- Knowledge of Transactional, analytical databases and Data analysis techniques for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data modeling and analysis (RDBMS, Columnar data-Parquet, JSON, etc.)
- Broad knowledge of networking concepts including TCP/IP, subnetting, routing, DHCP, and others is desirable
Understanding of cybersecurity principles *
Work Experience & Education
- 4+ years as Data Scientist, Machine Learning Engineer, MLOps Engineer, AI Engineer or similar quantitative field required
- Azure Databricks experience preferred
- High School Diploma or equivalent required
- Master’s Degree in the field of Computer Science/Engineering, Analytics, Mathematics, or related discipline required
PhD preferred *
What We Offer : Generous benefits package available on day one to include: 401K matching, bonding leave for new parents (12 weeks, 100% paid), tuition assistance, training, GM employee auto discount, community service pay and nine company holidays.
Our Culture : Our team members define and shape our culture — an environment that welcomes innovative ideas, fosters integrity, and creates a sense of community and belonging. Here we do more than work — we thrive.
Compensation : Competitive pay and bonus eligibility.
Work Life Balance : Flexible hybrid work environment, 2-days a week in office.
NOTE: We are unable to consider candidates who require visa sponsorship for this position
This position is not open to agency submissions
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Role Details
About This Role
AI/ML Engineers build and deploy machine learning models in production. They work across the full ML lifecycle: data pipelines, model training, evaluation, and serving infrastructure. The role has evolved significantly over the past two years. Where ML Engineers once spent most of their time on model architecture, the job now tilts heavily toward inference optimization, cost management, and integrating LLM capabilities into existing systems. Companies want engineers who can ship production systems, and the experimenter-only role is fading fast.
Day-to-day, you're writing training pipelines, debugging data quality issues, setting up evaluation frameworks, and figuring out why your model performs differently in staging than it did on your dev set. The best ML engineers are obsessive about reproducibility and measurement. They instrument everything. They know that a model is only as good as the data feeding it and the infrastructure serving it.
Across the 9,079 AI roles we're tracking, AI/ML Engineer positions make up 76% of the market. At GM Financial, this role fits into their broader AI and engineering organization.
Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.
What the Work Looks Like
A typical week might include: debugging a data pipeline that's silently dropping 3% of training examples, running A/B tests on a new model version, writing documentation for a feature flag system that lets you roll back model deployments, and reviewing a junior engineer's PR for a new evaluation metric. Meetings tend to be cross-functional since ML touches product, engineering, and data teams.
Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.
Skills Required
Python and PyTorch dominate the requirements. Most roles expect experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and familiarity with ML frameworks like TensorFlow or JAX. RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) has become a top-3 skill requirement as companies integrate LLMs into their products. Docker and Kubernetes show up in about a third of postings, reflecting the production focus of the role.
Beyond the core stack, employers increasingly want experience with experiment tracking tools (MLflow, Weights & Biases), feature stores, and vector databases. Fine-tuning experience is valuable but less common than you'd think from reading Twitter. Most production LLM work is RAG and prompt engineering, not fine-tuning. If you have both, you're in a strong position.
Companies that are serious about AI/ML hiring tend to post specific infrastructure details in the job description: the frameworks they use, their model serving stack, their data pipeline tools. Vague postings that just say 'ML experience required' without specifics are often companies that haven't figured out what they need yet.
Compensation Benchmarks
AI/ML Engineer roles pay a median of $211,950 based on 13,048 positions with disclosed compensation. Senior-level AI roles across all categories have a median of $229,300.
Across all AI roles, the market median is $213,000. Top-quartile compensation starts at $263,911. The 90th percentile reaches $318,400. For comparison, the highest-paying categories include AI Safety ($256,000) and Research Engineer ($252,000). By seniority level: Entry: $111,000; Mid: $193,200; Senior: $229,300; Director: $272,300; VP: $235,830.
GM Financial AI Hiring
GM Financial has 2 open AI roles right now. They're hiring across AI/ML Engineer. Positions span Irving, TX, US, Fort Worth, TX.
Location Context
Across all AI roles, 6% (531 positions) offer remote work, while 8,478 require on-site attendance. Top AI hiring metros: New York (3,078 roles, $221,000 median); San Francisco (2,646 roles, $261,000 median); Los Angeles (1,486 roles, $210,000 median).
Career Path
Common paths into AI/ML Engineer roles include Data Scientist, Software Engineer, Research Engineer.
From here, career progression typically leads toward ML Architect, AI Engineering Manager, Principal ML Engineer.
The fastest path into ML engineering is through software engineering with a self-directed ML education. A CS degree helps, but production engineering skills matter more than academic credentials. Build something that works, deploy it, and measure it. That portfolio project is worth more than a Coursera certificate. For career growth, the fork comes around the senior level: go deep on technical complexity (staff/principal track) or move into managing ML teams.
What to Expect in Interviews
Expect system design questions around ML pipelines: how you'd build a training pipeline for a specific use case, handle data drift, or design A/B testing infrastructure for model deployments. Coding rounds typically involve Python, with emphasis on data manipulation (pandas, numpy) and algorithm implementation. Take-home assignments often ask you to build an end-to-end ML pipeline from raw data to deployed model.
When evaluating opportunities: Companies that are serious about AI/ML hiring tend to post specific infrastructure details in the job description: the frameworks they use, their model serving stack, their data pipeline tools. Vague postings that just say 'ML experience required' without specifics are often companies that haven't figured out what they need yet.
AI Hiring Overview
The AI job market has 9,079 open positions tracked in our dataset. By seniority: 106 entry-level, 4,384 mid-level, 3,343 senior, and 1,246 leadership roles (Director, VP, C-Level). Remote roles make up 6% of the market (531 positions). The remaining 8,478 roles require on-site or hybrid attendance.
The market median for AI roles is $213,000. Top-quartile compensation starts at $263,911. The 90th percentile reaches $318,400. Highest-paying categories: AI Safety ($256,000 median, 66 roles); Research Engineer ($252,000 median, 457 roles); AI Engineering Manager ($251,622 median, 55 roles).
Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.
The AI Job Market Today
The AI job market spans 9,079 open positions across 16 role categories. The largest categories by volume: AI/ML Engineer (6,862), AI Product Manager (453), AI Software Engineer (451). These three account for the majority of open positions, though smaller categories often have higher per-role compensation because of specialized skill requirements.
The seniority mix tells a story about where AI teams are in their maturity. Entry-level roles (106) are outnumbered by mid-level (4,384) and senior (3,343) positions, reflecting that most companies are past the 'build a team from scratch' phase and need experienced engineers who can ship production systems. Leadership roles (Director, VP, C-Level) total 1,246 positions, representing the bottleneck between technical execution and organizational strategy.
Remote work availability sits at 6% of all AI roles (531 positions), with 8,478 requiring on-site or hybrid attendance. The remote share has stabilized after the post-pandemic correction. Senior and specialized roles (Research Scientist, ML Architect) are more likely to be remote-eligible than entry-level positions, partly because experienced hires have more negotiating power and partly because these roles require less hands-on mentorship.
AI compensation is structured in clear tiers. The market median sits at $213,000. Top-quartile roles start at $263,911, and the 90th percentile reaches $318,400. These figures include base salary with disclosed compensation. Total compensation (including equity, bonuses, and sign-on) runs 20-40% higher at companies that offer those components.
Category matters for compensation. AI Safety roles lead at $256,000 median, while Prompt Engineer roles sit at $141,440. The spread between highest and lowest-paying categories reflects the premium on specialized technical skills versus broader analytical roles.
The most in-demand skills across all AI postings: Python (1,649 postings), Aws (898 postings), Azure (723 postings), Rag (671 postings), Gcp (536 postings), Pytorch (434 postings), Claude (410 postings), Kubernetes (406 postings). Python dominates, appearing in the vast majority of role descriptions regardless of category. Cloud platform experience (AWS, GCP, Azure) is the second most common requirement. The newer entrants to the top skills list (RAG, vector databases, LLM APIs) reflect the shift from traditional ML toward generative AI applications.
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