Staff Software Engineer, Cruise
Simulation
$166.6-245k
Self-driving vehicles
Open for applications
Self-driving vehicles
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$166.6-245k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a better world by deploying driverless cars at scale.
Role
Who you are
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Equivalent experience includes tech leadership in a complex space, driving technical design and execution cross-collaboratively across multiple teams and organizations
- 5+ years experience coding Python and/or C++
- 4 + years experience in one or more of the following areas: test framework development, scale simulation test creation and management, implementation or analysis of metrics for extracting test signal
- Familiarity using at least one column oriented database/data warehouse (i.e. BigQuery, RedShift)
- Familiarity with dashboarding systems for displaying and exploring metrics over time (i.e. Looker, Tableau, Kibana)
- Clear track record of effective collaboration with customers and continuous delivery of quality results in a remote workplace. Comfortable collaborating with data scientists, product managers, machine learning engineers, and systems engineers
- Innate curiosity toward solving testing problems, a mindset toward scaling, and an insistence on quality
- Strong communication skills and experience addressing diverse audiences
- Passion for safe, fully-electric, self-driving technology and its impact on the world
Desirable
- Experience testing an autonomous driving or robotics software stack
- Experience with complex physics-simulation-based testing
- Experience with verification and validation of complex and/or safety critical systems
What the job involves
- As a Staff Software Engineer on the Simulation Test Engineering team, you will implement scalable testing pipelines for AV Behavior development and validation
- You will be responsible for delivering precise and reliable testing products built on industry leading autonomous vehicle simulation frameworks
- You will work closely with stakeholders across multiple disciplines to ensure our simulation testing provides clear signal on AV behavior
- Coordinate cross-functional expansion testing activities while navigating the organizational complexities of a remote workforce
- Lead the design and implementation of automated testing pipelines
- Work closely with partner teams to extract and interpret the testing signal used to make decisions on operational road readiness
- Communicate progress and results clearly and concisely with leadership
- Maintain a high technical standard for code quality on the team, through architectural design and code reviews
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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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 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 values
- Stay safe
- Stay focused
- Own it
- Seek truth
- Work together
- Be humble
- Be a customer
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Craig Glidden
(CEO (Not Founder))Is also currently the Executive Vice President of General Motors in its Legal wing.
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