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.
Cruisers have the opportunity to grow and develop while learning from leaders at the forefront of their fields. With a culture of internal mobility, there’s an opportunity to thrive in a variety of disciplines. This is a place for dreamers and doers to succeed.
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, join us.
The Autonomous Vehicle (AV) heavily relies on real-time execution of a very heterogeneous software system, which includes different classes of workloads with specific characteristics (e.g. machine learning, massively data parallel, geometry and math solving and calculations, data- and thread-parallel, etc). Each workload comes with different requirements of hardware/compute resources. Throughout the life-cycle of features in each workload class, skilled engineers (on both AV as well as Performance sides) work closely to prepare it for a robust, scalable, and compute/power efficient execution on a resource-constrained hardware system. Such a close working relationship is key to fast and successful deployment of intelligent systems on the car.
We are looking for an experienced performance architect to lead technical strategy and execution for the System Performance team, whose goal is to make the compute-intensive AV SW system fast, efficient and stable, when tested and run on highly resource-constrained hardware platforms.
In this role, you will define and lead the System Performance team’s strategic roadmap to develop high-performance and efficient solutions for AV SW on all production platforms and scale performance-driven development (PDD) across platforms and users (through tooling, testing, and education). You will work closely with senior leadership in AI, Robotics, HW, Simulation, and other orgs to define runtime performance requirements of the AV system in all production platforms (current and future), to align our goals and priorities, and to work with the engineering teams to research, prototype and implement new initiatives that will accelerate the company’s momentum to a full-fledged, driverless AV deployment.
If this sounds interesting to you, let’s chat!
What you’ll be doing:
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Define strategic vision and execution roadmap that innovates on performance optimizations of heterogeneous AV workloads on HW-constrained compute platforms
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Partner with cross-functional teams to define the vision and plan to scale the performance testing and learning cycle, from characterization and analysis, to diagnosis and optimization, and to gating and prevention.
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Collaborate effectively with leaders across AV hardware and software orgs to drive consensus through data-driven studies and tradeoffs
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Define execution processes that strive for streamlined engineering development with robust quality and excellence
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Lead engineering teams through the SDLC lifecycle, communicate effectively with senior leadership and optimize investment with impact in mind.
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Closely follow industry and academic developments in the SOTA for performance optimization, real-time execution and ML hardware domains and adopt technology that is the best fit for Cruise’s needs.
What you must have:
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10+ years of experience in the field of design and development of accelerated HPC systems, and/or system (real-time) performance analysis and optimization
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Extensive experience with programming different HW accelerators (e.g. GPUs, NNAs, DSPs)
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Extensive experience with HPC development ecosystem, e.g. profiling and optimizing software through parallelization techniques for complex multi-device compute nodes
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Extensive experience with linux-based performance profiling and debugging tools (for CPUs and accelerators)
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Strong expertise in writing production quality C++ code and setting standards for code quality across engineering teams
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Experience in driving technical strategy and vision for engineering teams and organizations
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Leadership experience for planning and execution of cross-functional initiatives and projects
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In-depth understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and best practices - CI/CD, coding, debugging, optimization, testing, integration and deployment
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PhD in CS/CE/EE, or equivalent, in industry experience
Bonus points!
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Experience with ASIC program and design process (from a compute software perspective)
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Experience with performance tooling, modeling, simulation and architecture design for modern HW microarchitectures.
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Experience with modern parallel programming: GPU programming (CUDA, OpenCL), SIMD (avx, neon/SVE), multi-process and multi-threaded designs.
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Familiarity with HW vendors’ deep learning stacks (e.g., cuDNN, cuBLAS, AMD MIOpen, TensorRT, OpenVino, ARM Compute Library, etc)
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Experience with model optimization techniques like pruning, quantization, NAS, etc.
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Experience with real-time scheduling frameworks
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Experience with open-source deep learning stacks (TVM, XLA, etc)
Why Cruise?
- 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 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.
- We’re Integrated
- Through our partnerships with General Motors and Honda, we are the only self-driving company with fully integrated manufacturing at scale.
- We’re Funded
- GM, Honda, Microsoft, T. Rowe Price & 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’re Independent
- 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.
- We’re Vested
- 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.
- Recurring Liquidity Opportunity (RLO) - a unique equity program where employees, both current and former, have the option to sell any amount of their vested equity on a recurring basis, currently quarterly.
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.
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At Cruise, we’re tasked with leading in the communities we serve — and doing our part to help keep our communities and our teams safe. Our #StaySafe culture transcends and informs all we do, and because of this, as of October 31, 2021 Cruise will be mandating COVID-19 vaccinations for all US-based Cruisers who need or want to access any of our US Cruise facilities and engage in any business travel — including attending any in-person Company-sponsored event.
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