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Senior Platform Engineer – AV Cloud Engineering
General Motors Company · 🇺🇸 2 Locations
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One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 606 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 267 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What General Motors Company paid sponsored hires in similar roles171 certified filings for “Senior Software Engineer” (Software Developers) in MI: $140k–$163k, median $150k. Most were filed at wage level IV (74%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
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The US Department of Labor certified 606 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 267 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Job Description We are hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to join the Autonomous Vehicle (AV) Cloud Engineering team within AV Core Infrastructure. AV Cloud Engineering owns core IaaS and PaaS capabilities that support autonomous vehicle development and runtime environments. This role is for an engineer who treats cloud infrastructure as a product and is motivated by building a reliable, easy-to- consume platform that helps AV engineers build, test, and run faster with less operational friction. You will work on the platform capabilities, abstractions, and self-service workflows that power AV workloads at scale. You should be comfortable turning broad infrastructure problems into durable engineering solutions and improving developer velocity through software, automation, and thoughtful platform design. What You’ll Do • Build and evolve internal platform capabilities, self-service workflows, APIs, and automation that make the right path the easiest path for AV engineering teams. • Design clean abstractions that allow product and research teams to consume complex infrastructure, including specialized hardware such as GPUs, without deep infrastructure expertise . • Improve platform primitives across traffic, service mesh, runtime configuration, and connectivity for distributed AV workloads. • Reduce toil and improve reliability through reusable platform tooling, declarative automation, strong service ownership, observability, and SLIs/SLOs. • Take ownership of complex platform initiatives from problem definition through design, implementation, and adoption. • Partner with adjacent AV infrastructure teams to reduce developer friction and improve the reliability of the platform AV engineers depend on. • Contribute to a healthy engineering culture through design reviews, code reviews, mentorship, and clear technical communication. Skills & Abilities: • Required: Fully qualified proficiency in Kubernetes (GKE) and the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) ecosystem, including VPC, IAM, etc. • Required: Hands-on experience implementing high-availability systems and managing the lifecycle of production-grade clusters. • Required: Strong proficiency in software engineering and DevOps principles, specifically using Golang/Python and Terraform. • Required: Ability to operate independently in an ambiguous environment and translate high-level requirements into clear technical tasks. • Required: A "Growth-based Mindset" with a commitment to continuous upskilling and a belief that team capacities are developed through effort and coaching. • Required: Professional experience managing the trade-offs between hardware-level performance (GPU passthrough) and clean cloud abstractions. • Preferred: Experience with Service Mesh (Istio) and managing large-scale DNS/Traffic configurations in a global environment. Minimum Qualifications (Must-Have) • 5+ years of experience or proven record of defining and executing technical strategy that required coordination across multiple teams, senior executives, and front-line engineers • Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field OR equivalent work experience • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production and strong familiarity with at least one major cloud ecosystem such as GCP, AWS, or Azure. • Strong software engineering skills in Go, Python, or similar languages, with the ability to build reusable automation, services, APIs, or controllers. • Experience designing, implementing, and operating large-scale, high-availability distributed systems in production. Preferred Qualifications • Experience with service mesh technologies such as Istio and large-scale DNS or traffic management. • Experience with GKE and the broader GCP ecosystem, i