Senior Staff Engineer, Cruise
$184.5-271.2k
You may also be offered a bonus, restricted stock units
Self-driving vehicles
Job no longer available
Self-driving vehicles
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$184.5-271.2k
You may also be offered a bonus, restricted stock units
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a better world by deploying driverless cars at scale.
Role
Who you are
- 12+ years as a lead developer or architect
- Strong experience in building, shipping, debugging, and operating full stack web services in a production environment
- The ability to make connections across different technical stacks, design patterns and development philosophies to come up with novel solutions
- Serving as a role model and mentor for others on acting with good judgment and responsibility
- Broad knowledge of cloud computing platforms like GCP, Azure and AWS, API design and deployment (Real-time, REST, GraphQL), distributed systems, SOA and/or microservice-based architectures, datastores types and their tradeoffs, compute deployment strategies including serverless, common security vulnerabilities and mitigation, and web frontend development tech such as React
- Excellent written communication skills. Your ideas, feedback, key decisions, and technical designs will be shared with other senior engineers, partners, and the company's leadership
- Strong product sense. You are aware of the value proposition of the products you are building.You must also have an execution-mindset, looking to deliver the most minimalist MVP, which can deliver the highest value for the company (ala lean product)
- A passion for self-driving technology and its impact on the world
Desirable
- Prior experience of building large scale developer platform, productivity tools and workflows
- Prior AV experience
- Experience or interest in ML, embedded systems, mobile app development, ROS, or robotics
What the job involves
- Be a solver or an architect in one or more of our groups
- Lead technology and architecture decisions, including originating and assessing technical designs, and communicating design with engineers, partners and executives
- Uphold a high technical bar, and drive high quality engineering practices across our department and Cruise
- Having vision and identifying strategically important problems, inefficiencies, or opportunities for meaningful improvements
- Raise the bar on engineering excellence by improving standard methodologies and developer productivities, producing best in class of code, documentation, testing, and monitoring
- Work collaboratively to establish and execute on large, multi-team programs
- Work with engineer managers and engineers, mentoring, coaching and growing them to help you accomplish the team’s goals
- Work with our product managers to understand and evolve our suite of products to better serve our customers
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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