Senior Software Engineer, Cruise
CRAFT, Test Platform
$142.8-210k
Self-driving vehicles
Job no longer available
Self-driving vehicles
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$142.8-210k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a better world by deploying driverless cars at scale.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 5+ years of production-level experience building full-stack applications with a significant focus on backend development
- Technical Proficiency: Strong experience in building, shipping, debugging, and operating full-stack web services in a production environment
- Innovative Thinking: Ability to make connections across different technical stacks, design patterns, and development philosophies to come up with novel solutions
- Mentorship: Serve as a role model and mentor, demonstrating good judgment and responsibility
- Broad Knowledge: Expertise in cloud computing platforms (GCP, Azure, AWS), API design and deployment (Real-time, REST, GraphQL), distributed systems, SOA/microservice-based architectures, datastore types and their tradeoffs, compute deployment strategies including serverless, common security vulnerabilities and mitigation, and web frontend development technologies
- Communication Skills: Excellent written communication skills to share ideas, feedback, key decisions, and technical designs with senior engineers, partners, and leadership
- Product Sense: Awareness of the value proposition of the products you are building, with an execution mindset focused on delivering high-value minimalist MVPs (lean product approach)
- Passion for Technology: A genuine interest in self-driving technology and its impact on the world
Desirable
- Experience building large-scale developer productivity tools and workflows
- Proficiency in Golang and TypeScript
- Prior experience in autonomous vehicle (AV) technology
- Experience or interest in machine learning (ML), embedded systems, mobile app development, ROS, or robotics
- Ability to work out of our Bay Area office 2x per week (this role is hybrid)
What the job involves
- Design and Implement Full-Stack Solutions: Develop and implement comprehensive services and distributed systems, including our expanding suite of operational tools, to enhance our ability to deploy, monitor, and control our fleet of autonomous vehicles. These solutions are critical for increasing the speed and confidence of our deployments, and they carry significant business impact.
- Focus: 90% Backend development, 10% or less Frontend development
- Collaborative Execution: Work collaboratively to establish and execute large, multi-team programs. Our team is growing, has a significant impact across the organization/company, and undertakes cross-team and collaborative projects
- Engineering Excellence: Raise the bar by producing best-in-class code, documentation, testing, and monitoring
- Strategic Vision: Identify strategically important problems, inefficiencies, or opportunities for meaningful improvements
- Product Evolution: Collaborate with 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.
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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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