Description
GM Israel (Herzliya) takes a significant part in introducing sophisticated software features into car in many domains like connected cars, advanced camera technologies and research. We shape the face of the future vehicles in diverse fields by developing cutting edge technologies that define how drivers experience safety, awareness, and confidence on the road.
GM is committed to Zero Emission, Zero Crashes and Zero Congestion vision.
About the Group:
General Motors Research Labs is an applied research center focusing on creating and evaluating innovations for future vehicles. Our researchers conduct independent technical work, while initiating and leading collaborative projects with colleagues at academia and industry globally.
As a member of General Motors Research Labs, the Controls and Learning systems group offers exciting opportunities for motivated researchers with outstanding capabilities to conduct research in applied AI and Controls for developing cutting edge, world changing technologies for GM’s future vehicles. The focus of this position will be to maximize contributions to the whole organization.
About the Role:
In this Staff Researcher position , you will lead research and/or experiments to validate research ideas in developing. Write timely and high-quality research reports, external publications, and records of invention to document new ideas and research results in your area of research.
What will YOU do?
As a part of the GM Research team, you will lead novel applied AI and Controls research focusing on robotics. You will develop AI/ML/Controls technologies that will change the future of mobility. You will collaborate with world-class universities / industry partners while publishing research outcomes internally and externally.
Broader research areas include:
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Explore, invent, innovate, implement, evaluate and test algorithms as an independent yet integral member of a research team
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Identify research gaps, propose, plan and execute complex research projects
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Maintain state-of-the-art technical expertise in AI/ML/Controls
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Generate intellectual property, document results and publish papers
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Develop requirements and evaluation metrics for AI/ML/Controls
Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)
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PhD or MSc with over 10 years of experience in AI, ML, computer science, engineering, physics or relevant areas.
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Expert-level knowledge in one or more of these areas: deep learning, autonomous agents, large-scale multiagent systems, prediction, distributed optimization, and reinforcement learning
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Experience in creating and implementing reinforcement learning algorithms
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Expertise in manipulating high-volume, high-dimensional data from varying sources with machine learning techniques
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Experience in prototyping algorithms, implementing and testing software on hardware
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Programming background: Python, AI/ML environments (PyTorch, TensorFlow, sklearn, etc.)
What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)
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Experience in applying reinforcement learning to real world problems.
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Experience in applying ML techniques to control theory problems.
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Experience in applying foundation models/diffusion policies/VLAs to robotic application
About GM
Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.
Why Join Us
We believe we all must make a choice every day – individually and collectively – to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.
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