Senior AV Network Engineer

About the role

The Staff AV Network Engineer in the AV Core Infrastructure (ACI) organization is responsible for designing and maintaining the secure hybrid network fabric that powers the global AV development pipeline. This role involves treating the network as software, leading the design of architectures that bridge on-prem validation and cloud environments, and ensuring the network does not become a bottleneck for developer velocity.

Responsibilities

• Treat Network as Code (NaC): Lead the transition toward fully automated, software-defined infrastructure where all network changes are version-controlled, peer-reviewed, and deployed via CI/CD pipelines.
• Define, monitor, and own critical Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for network performance, focusing on latency, throughput, and availability metrics that impact the AV engineering pipeline.
• Toil Reduction: Apply SRE principles to identify and automate repetitive manual tasks, ensuring the team remains focused on high-value architectural improvements.
• Build and maintain advanced telemetry and monitoring stacks to provide real-time visibility into the health of hybrid interconnects and on-prem validation pools.
• Design and scale the global backbone connecting on-prem data centers, test tracks, and public cloud providers (primarily GCP Interconnect and potentially Azure ExpressRoute).
• Architect secure, multi-tenant network segments that isolate sensitive AV intellectual property while allowing high-speed access for developer tools and automated build processes.
• Develop "infrastructure-as-code" templates to enable self-service networking for AV developers and ML researchers.
• Optimize the end-to-end data path from hardware ingestion points through the secure cloud network and into production storage/runtimes.
• Ensure the networking requirements for on-prem validation and test worker pools are met, providing the low-latency, high-reliability paths necessary for real-time hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulations.
• Collaborate with hardware systems teams to ensure validation pools are seamlessly integrated into the ACI cloud-native IaaS/PaaS layers.
• Implement and manage zero-trust network architectures, ensuring end-to-end encryption for data in transit without sacrificing the throughput required for massive AV training sets.
• Manage "Error Budgets" for network services, balancing the need for rapid feature deployment with the requirement for extreme system stability.
• Act as the final escalation point for complex network outages, using professional-grade packet analysis and telemetry to resolve multi-dimensional issues across the stack.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Network Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in large-scale enterprise, service provider networking, or SRE roles.
• Professional-level certifications (e.g., CCNP/CCIE, Arista ACE, or Google Professional Cloud Network Engineer).
• Proven experience applying SRE principles to networking infrastructure at scale.
• Deep experience with hybrid cloud connectivity and high-throughput data ingestion for validation/test environments.

Skills

• High-performance networking (BGP, EVPN, VXLAN).
• Advanced proficiency in Cloud Networking (VPC design, Shared VPCs, Cloud Armor, Cloud Load Balancing).
• Advanced proficiency in SRE and Network Automation tools (Ansible, Terraform, Python, Go).
• Experience with telemetry stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).

Benefits

GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs, including 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.

Pay

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 $172,000 to $300,000. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.

Schedule

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Location

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