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.
What you’ll be doing:
The Operational Safety team assures safety in every operational stage including our closed course testing, validation testing on-road and our commercial driverless services. Our work starts early in development with systems engineering, operations and engineering to drive human factors and product safety into the system design and requirements through hazard analyses and continues with ongoing risk assessment and monitoring activities. This includes additional focus on operations to ensure we develop effective training, processes and procedures for the operators of our fleet. The SeniorOperational Safety Engineer is a fundamental part of our ability to scale responsibly and satisfy our safety targets.
Perform safety risk analysis and assessment for safety critical product features and operations activities using quantitative and qualitative methods.
Contribute to product and operational risk assessment methodology development
Own end to end hazard identification and risk assessment process improvements
Develop concept of operations and functional requirements with acceptance criteria to inform the development operational procedures, training materials and operational changes.
Develop methods to capture data useful to monitor key safety behavior indicators and performance metrics against performance thresholds on an ongoing basis
Articulate safety reports, summaries, and recommendations to risk owners and other executives
Support Risk Working Group activities and requests for safety assessment, process improvements and risk reduction opportunities.
Drive the development and assist with the execution of an operational safety audit program strategy to ensure effective operational safety controls implementation across all geographies, programs, and modes of operation.
Support onsite audits as needed and review field audit data to ensure product and operational safety controls are implemented and effective in the Cruise system.
Develop findings and corrective action plans to eliminate exposure to these risks in the Cruise system and at all sites.
Serve as the operational safety representative in urgent fleet safety concerns or severe incident crisis management response for off-hours emergencies.
What you must have:
Familiarity with risk assessment methodologies
Expertise in safety analysis for autonomous vehicles or similar industry
Enjoy working in a collegial yet highly fast-paced and effective culture.
Comfort with ambiguity; bias to action.
Excellent judgment and ability to remain unbiased and independent throughout all safety activities
Ability to learn quickly, starting with little information and quickly becoming an expert in your domain
Proven experience at communicating data driven decisions to leadership
Strong project management skills to coordinate multiple risk assessment work streams simultaneously
Proficiency in extracting insights from and applying expert-provided data in the form of quantitative risk assessments, reliability analysis, and/or statistical data analysis
Familiarity with requirement management systems
Bonus Points!
Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Safety, Human Factors or a related technical degree
Proven track record of root cause analysis in complex human factors and SW/HW systems
Demonstrate the ability to build trust and confidence with the operations team and influence continuous improvement for systems safety.
Expertise in Human Factors or Organizational Performance
Experience within an operating Safety Management System
Understanding of System Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA) and its application
The salary range for this position is $115,600 - 170,000. 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, caste, 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.
Candidates applying for roles that operate and remotely operate the AV: Licensed to drive a motor vehicle in the U.S. for the three years immediately preceding your application, currently holding an active in-state regular driver’s license or equivalent, and no more than one point on driving record. A successful completion of a background check, drug screen and DMV Motor Vehicle Record check is also required.
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.
