Staff Software Engineer, Cruise
Machine Learning Acceleration
Self-driving vehicles
Job no longer available
Self-driving vehicles
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a better world by deploying driverless cars at scale.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of professional experience in software design and engineering with MS or higher degree (or equivalent experience)
- Experience with building infrastructure to evaluate performance of complex software systems
- Strong expertise in writing production quality Python/C++ code
- Experienced in driving good software development lifecycle practices - coding, debugging, optimization, testing, integration
- Extensive experience with software development in Linux and using its system tools
- Experience defining roadmap and leading execution, with a track record of collaborating with multiple teams to deliver business impact
Desirable
- Strong background in computer architecture and operating systems
- Experience with AV technology stacks
- Experience with Data science and statistics
- Previous experience building, or working on, HIL test platform
What the job involves
- Drive the software architecture design and roadmap for the hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing platform targeting runtime performance of future AV hardware
- Understand different customer use-cases and deliver a production quality software platform with high reliability, fidelity, and efficiency
- Collaborate with key partner teams in other departments (Infrastructure, Simulation and AV Software) to identify and de-risk major gaps and maintain an effective testing product in the continuous release process
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship and coaching of other members of the team or project
Our take
The taxi industry has seen dramatic changes through mobile vehicle-hailing apps such as Uber, but these services focus simply on ease-of-access to regular taxi services. The automotive industry has seen a vast range of innovations in recent years such as electric cars and self-driving capability, features that are currently not found in existing services.
Cruise brings self-driving autonomy and electric cars together into a taxi-hailing mobile application. In addition to these innovations, the service focuses on efficiency through ride-sharing as opposed to each ride providing a single trip. Whilst other taxi-hailing services will inevitably turn to electric self-driving vehicles, Cruise shows potential to stand out through its AI-fuelled focus on carpooling and fleet efficiency.
Cruise, which has been acquired by General Motors, has received an inordinate amount of funding, including from Honda and Microsoft, with Softbank investing over $2B to scale its technology. A sum of this came after Cruise launched a limited driverless robotaxi service to the public in San Francisco. However, the company is now facing lawsuits from the city to limit its operations there after a series of accidents involving Cruise's vehicles.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
29% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 11 rounds)
Jun 2024
$850m
LATE VC
Feb 2022
$1.3bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $9.1bn
Company benefits
- Medical / dental / vision, AD+D and life insurance
- Subsidized mental health benefits
- One Medical membership
- Flexible Spending Account
- Monthly wellness stipend
- 401(k) match
- Paid time off: vacation, sick, public health emergency, jury duty, bereavement and company holidays
- Paid parental, family care and medical leave
- Family care benefits: fertility benefits, Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (subsidized by Cruise)
- Non-remote employees: Pre-tax Commuter Benefit Plan, healthy meals and snacks
- CruiseFlex - a working policy for US-Based Cruisers that lets you and your manager find what working style is best for you, whether it’s primarily in-person, primarily at home or a combination of home and in-office time
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Craig Glidden
(CEO (Not Founder))Is also currently the Executive Vice President of General Motors in its Legal wing.
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