We’re Cruise, a self-driving service designed for the cities we love.
We’re building the world’s most advanced self-driving vehicles to safely connect people to the places, things, and experiences they care about. We believe self-driving vehicles will help save lives, reshape cities, give back time in transit, and restore freedom of movement for many.
In our cars, you’re free to be yourself. It’s the same here at Cruise. We’re creating a culture that values the experiences and contributions of all of the unique individuals who collectively make up Cruise, so that every employee can do their best work.
Cruise is committed to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment, both in our workplace and in our products. If you are looking to play a part in making a positive impact in the world by advancing the revolutionary work of self-driving cars, come join us. Even if you might not meet every requirement, we strongly encourage you to apply. You might just be the right candidate for us.
The Infrastructure Engineering team’s vision is to deliver a best-in-class infrastructure platform that equips Cruise to develop, deploy and operate autonomous vehicles at scale. The team’s mission is to create an efficient, reliable and scalable foundation to accelerate the development and operation of autonomous technology. Infrastructure Engineering at Cruise comprises several teams:
Developer Productivity team provides Cruise developers with tools to manage source control, continuous integration & deployment, testing, and more.
Infrastructure Platform team provides Cloud and On-Premises platform infrastructure, Simulation infrastructure, foundational services (e.g., DNS, DHCP), production networks, physical infrastructure deployment, and more.
Site Reliability (SRE) team provides service owners with best practices for maturing their service operations, incident response process & tooling, resiliency engineering, internal advising, and more.
TPM Planning
Drive the formulation and review of team objectives and key results for quarterly and annual planning cycles.
Develop and review detailed program plans, and also be adept at balancing them against short-term agile needs and risk management.
Develop knowledge of technical systems to understand and handle dependencies between teams and systems.
TPM Execution
Ensure smooth execution of programs, and improve execution and reporting processes over time.
Understand the bigger picture and apply your technical expertise and organizational problem solving skills to prioritize and navigate blocking issues.
Deliver high quality communications to efficiently summarize, resolve, raise issues, and celebrate wins.
Build strong working relationships with partner teams to facilitate collaboration.
Apply critical thinking to scope and lead ambitious programs.
TPM Delivery
Partner with Product Managers and Engineering Managers to ensure that acceptance criteria have been met, and that projects are completed and delivered on schedule.
Validate non-functional requirements such as latency, performance, scalability, and resource cost.
Day-to-day TPM responsibilities :
Drive multiple cross-org engineering programs
Partner closely with engineering and product teams
Communicate with stakeholders
Refine processes & tools used by your team and others
You may be a good fit if you have:
6+ years of TPM experience in fast-paced technology company
Ability and interest in operating in environments that have some ambiguity
Experience and ability to influence without authority across engineering teams
Experience leading critical engineering initiatives that span multiple teams, which often have conflicting priorities and schedules
Excellent program management skills and experience
Excellent verbal and written communications
Excellent inter-personal skills
University degree in Computer Science, or 2+ years of experience in software development or QA or infrastructure
Familiarity with project management tools for ticketing, planning, drawing, presentations
An analytical and curious nature
An interest in solving problems collaboratively
The salary range for this position is $170,000 - 250,000. Compensation will vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. You may also be offered a bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits. These ranges are subject to change.
Why Cruise?
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Our benefits are here to support the whole you:
- Competitive salary and benefits
- 401(k) Cruise matching program
- Medical / dental / vision, AD+D and Life
- One Medical membership
- Subsidized mental health benefits
- Flexible vacation and company paid holidays
- Healthy meals and snacks provided for non-remote employees
- Paid parental, jury duty, bereavement, family care, and medical leave
- Fertility Benefits
- Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, subsidized by Cruise
- Flexible Spending Account
- Monthly wellness stipend
- Pre-tax Commuter Benefit Plan for non-remote employees
- CruiseFlex, a working policy for US-Based Cruisers, lets you and your manager find the working style that’s best for you, whether it’s primarily in-person, primarily at home, or a combination of home and in-office time. - learn more about CruiseFlex here
- GM, Honda, Microsoft, T. Rowe Price, and Walmart have invested billions in Cruise. Their backing for our technology demonstrates their confidence in our progress, team, and vision and makes us one of the leading autonomous vehicle organizations in the industry. Our deep resources greatly accelerate our operating speed.
- We have our own governance, board of directors, equity, and investors. Our independence allows us to not just work on the edge of technology, but also define it.
- You won’t just own your work here, you’ll have the potential to own equity in Cruise, too. We are competing in a market that is projected to grow exponentially, which gives our company valuation room to grow. We offer a new kind of equity program called Recurring Liquidity Opportunity (RLO), which combines IPO-like liquidity with the stability of remaining private - learn more about RLO here
Cruise LLC is an equal opportunity employer. We strive to create a supportive and inclusive workplace where contributions are valued and celebrated, and our employees thrive by being themselves and are inspired to do the best work of their lives. We seek applicants of all backgrounds and identities, across race, color, ethnicity, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or parental status, or disability. Applicants will not be discriminated against based on these or other protected categories or social identities. Cruise will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, in accordance with applicable laws.
Cruise is committed to the full inclusion of all applicants. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process please let our recruiting team know or email [email protected].
We proactively work to design hiring processes that promote equity and inclusion while mitigating bias. To help us track the effectiveness and inclusivity of our recruiting efforts, please consider answering the following demographic questions. Answering these questions is entirely voluntary. Your answers to these questions will not be shared with the hiring decision makers and will not impact the hiring decision in any way. Instead, Cruise will use this information not only to comply with any government reporting obligations but also to track our progress toward meeting our diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging objectives.
Note to Recruitment Agencies: Cruise does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Furthermore, Cruise does not pay placement fees for candidates submitted by any agency other than its approved partners.
