General Motors is a leading automotive company focused on innovation and sustainability. They are seeking a 2026 Summer Intern in Machine Learning Systems Engineering to help develop and optimize their AI training platform for autonomous driving, with responsibilities including improving data processing pipelines and enhancing testing infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Develop scalable infrastructure and tools to support model training, regression, and rules-based models, operations, and inference
- Suggest, collect and synthesize requirements and create effective feature roadmap
- Code deliverables in tandem with the engineering team
- Adapt standard machine learning methods to best exploit modern parallel environments (e.g. distributed clusters, multicore SMP, and GPU)
- Perform specific responsibilities which vary by team
Skills
- Currently enrolled in a full-time, degree-seeking program and in the process of obtaining a Master's degree in computer science or a related technical field
- Experience in systems software or algorithms
- Experience with modern object-oriented programming languages (e.g., Java, C++, Python)
- Strong communication skills with experience collaborating across cross-functional teams
- Able to work fulltime, 40 hours per week
- Demonstrated software engineer experience via an internship, work experience, coding competitions
- Familiarity with AI –assisted engineering tools (e.g., for code generation, model analysis, or experiment planning) to enhance productivity and understanding of ML systems
- Demonstrated creativity and quick problem-solving capabilities
- Research and/or work experience in a relevant field, such as machine learning, deep learning, reinforcement learning, NLP, recommendation systems, pattern recognition, signal processing, data mining, artificial intelligence, or computer vision
- Experience with distributed systems (e.g., Spark, Ray, Kubernetes, Slurm)
- Experience in CUDA, OpenCL, Triton or other accelerator programming language
- Intent to return to degree-program after the completion of the internship
- Graduating between December 2026 and August 2027
Benefits
- Paid US GM Holidays
- GM Family First Vehicle Discount Program
- Result-based potential for growth within GM
- Intern events to network with company leaders and peers
Company Overview
General Motors is an automotive company that designs, produces, markets, and distributes vehicles and vehicle parts. It was founded in 1908, and is headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.gm.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
General Motors has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 787 in 2025, 740 in 2024, 450 in 2023, 795 in 2022, 748 in 2021, 452 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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