Senior Software Engineer, Cruise
Fleet Management
$142.8-210k
+ Bonus
Self-driving vehicles
Job no longer available
Self-driving vehicles
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$142.8-210k
+ Bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a better world by deploying driverless cars at scale.
Role
Who you are
- MS or Ph.D. in CS, Math, Physics, or equivalent real-world experience
- 5+ years of experience as a software engineer, with a focus on backend development and a microservices architecture
- Broad knowledge of cloud computing platforms like GCP and Azure, 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
- Experience with software development best practices, including testing, code reviews, and agile development methodologies
- 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 and can drive informed decision-making around what should be built or bought and why
- A passion for self-driving technology and its impact on the world
Desirable
- Experience in fleet management, fulfillment, dispatch, or logistics systems
- Experience in the autonomous vehicle or rideshare industry
- Expertise with Go and Typescript
What the job involves
- Design and implement efficient, scalable, and reliable backend systems that support our fleet management initiatives
- Collaborate with product owners, designers, and other engineers to develop new features and functionality
- Develop and maintain APIs that support both internal and external customers
- Write high-quality code that is well-documented, thoroughly tested, and maintainable
- Develop and maintain frontend applications that provide a rich user experience
- Own the technical design and architecture of projects within our domain
- Take a role in driving tech initiatives, technical design and architecture, planning, and delivery of our initiatives
- Mentor other engineers on the team, and provide feedback on code and architecture reviews
- Participate in on-call rotation to ensure that our services are highly available and performant
- Own deployed code to our live production fleet of autonomous vehicles
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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