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We’re building the world’s most advanced self-driving vehicles to safely connect people to the places, things, and experiences they care about. We believe self-driving vehicles will help save lives, reshape cities, give back time in transit, and restore freedom of movement for many.
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Cruise is committed to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment, both in our workplace and in our products. If you are looking to play a part in making a positive impact in the world by advancing the revolutionary work of self-driving cars, come join us. Even if you might not meet every requirement, we strongly encourage you to apply. You might just be the right candidate for us.
Simulation at Cruise is responsible for constructing virtual environments to guarantee safety, comfort and efficiency of our autonomous vehicles. Our products accelerate autonomous vehicle development, testing, and deployment by efficiently simulating and testing our autonomous vehicle software against billions of miles of driving - a task that would otherwise require years of on-road testing. Simulation develops end-to-end frameworks, test pipelines, assets, and tools to enable our fleets to scale in the real world.
See more about Sim here!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BF34b4EMz8
As a Staff Software TLM on the Simulation team, you will lead a team of high-caliber software engineers driving development and integration of our automated simulation test pipelines to solve mission-critical testing and evaluation problems. These pipelines will automatically gather road data, create new tests, validate existing tests, and actively power rapid developer iteration for model training and performance evaluation. You will own a rapidly scaling user-facing test product designed to enhance engineering development speed across the entirety of Cruise.
As a technical leader within Cruise, your role will involve fostering the growth of strong, content and engaged teams, enabling them to deliver exceptional work. Your team will collaborate closely with a diverse team across AV Engineering, Systems Engineering, Product Management, Product Operations, as well as SWEs within the Simulation framework and tooling teams, to deliver impactful simulation software solutions.
What you'll be doing:
- Lead a team of exceptional software engineers, sculpting automated test tools and pipelines for simulation test creation, maintenance and execution
- Drive and influence strategic decisions on simulation tooling architecture, implementation and delivery of large-scale software solutions for testing and performance evaluation of autonomous vehicle software stack
- Steer product vision and execution of user-efficient tools from ideation to production for multiple simulation authorship and management workflows
- Develop and oversee top-tier software engineers within a dynamic, fast-paced, and inclusive setting
- Partner with engineering and product leadership across simulation and cross functional teams on intricate simulation test challenges and roadmaps for immediate and future needs
What you must have:
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, or equivalent experience
- Equivalent experience includes technical leadership in a complex space, driving technical design and execution cross-collaboratively across multiple teams and organizations
- 8+ years relevant industry experience, including 3+ years of experience leading and managing high-caliber software engineers
- Strong programming skills in Python
- Experience building developer productivity tools that scale effectively with a high degree of product excellence
- Passion for building tools, frameworks and libraries that simplify complex workflows
- Experience with C++
- Experience with SQL programming
- Experience with driving customer adoption up and scale product
- Familiarity with dashboarding systems for displaying and exploring metrics over time (i.e. Looker, Tableau, Kibana)
- Experience with verification and validation of complex and/or safety critical systems
- Competitive salary and benefits
- Medical / dental / vision, Life and AD&D
- Subsidized mental health benefits
- Paid time off and holidays
- Paid parental, medical, family care, and military leave of absence
- 401(k) Cruise matching program
- Fertility benefits
- Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
- Flexible Spending Account & Health Saving Account
- Perks Wallet program for benefits/perks
- Pre-tax Commuter benefit plan for local employees
- CruiseFlex, our location-flexible work policy. (Learn more about CruiseFlex).
- Through our partnerships with General Motors and Honda, we are the only self-driving company with fully integrated manufacturing at scale.
- GM, Honda, Microsoft, T. Rowe Price, and Walmart have invested billions in Cruise. Their backing for our technology demonstrates their confidence in our progress, team, and vision and makes us one of the leading autonomous vehicle organizations in the industry. Our deep resources greatly accelerate our operating speed.
No Application Deadline
What We Do
Cruise is building the world’s most advanced self-driving vehicles to safely connect people with the places, things, and experiences they care about.
Through our partnerships with General Motors and Honda, we are the only self-driving company with fully integrated manufacturing at scale, building all-electric, zero-emission, self-driving vehicles that will help save lives, reimagine cities, reduce carbon pollution, redefine time in transit, and restore freedom of movement for individuals who live in dense urban settings.
Together, we believe our world-class partners, deep resources, and technology approach of testing in a complex urban environment will help to deliver self-driving vehicles at scale.
Why Work With Us
Your work on all-electric, self-driving vehicles will save lives, help the planet, and make cities better. It’s something to be proud of...and it’s career-defining work.
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