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 Autonomous Vehicle (AV) software stack is a complex workload that includes compute and data intensive functions within perception, prediction, planning and controls. This role is within the ML Accelerators (MLA) team which drives the maintenance and optimization of the software stack for real-time, on-road performance. This means efficient workload mapping onto a heterogeneous, resource-constrained hardware, co-architecting the HW platform with HW engineers and building products and tools for AI deployment and performance profiling, diagnosis and optimizations that can be employed by AV engineers. In MLA, we work in close collaboration with AV engineers throughout the lifecycle of developing new AV features, that are deployed to improve key AV product qualities (e.g. safety, reliability); all of which very critical to the success of our mission.

In this role, you will be collaborating closely with different teams to scope, design, develop and maintain AV performance testing platform that is on the critical path of continuous AV SW release and validation processes. You will drive initiatives to improve the platform’s fidelity, reliability, scalability, efficiency and coverage. Moreover, given that the testing platform evolves simultaneously with the AV compute platform counterpart, your strong leadership is needed to influence requirements and design of the future custom AV hardware platforms.

If you’re interested in building scalable platforms for validating performance and reliability of heterogeneous custom compute systems, and want to test your skills with real-world (and practical) applications in the AV domain, let’s connect!

What you’ll be doing:

• Drive the software architecture design and roadmap for the hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing platform targeting runtime performance of future AV hardware
• Understand different customer use-cases and deliver a production quality software platform with high reliability, fidelity, and efficiency
• Collaborate with key partner teams in other departments (Infrastructure, Simulation and AV Software) to identify and de-risk major gaps and maintain an effective testing product in the continuous release process
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship and coaching of other members of the team or projects
• Define customer-facing SLAs and collaborate with partner teams to maintain and improve those metrics

What you must have:

• 7+ years of professional experience in software design and engineering management roles.
• Strong expertise in writing production quality Python/C++ code
• Experience defining roadmap and leading execution, with a track record of collaborating with multiple teams to deliver business impact
• Experienced in team building, mentorship and career development.
• Experience with building infrastructure to evaluate performance of software systems on edge devices
• Extensive experience with software development in Linux and using its system tools
• Experienced in driving good software development lifecycle practices - coding, debugging, optimization, testing, and integration

Bonus points!

• Experience with AV technology stacks
• Experience with Data science and statistics
• Experience working with production infrastructure
• Previous experience building, or working on, HIL test platforms

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, 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

• 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, 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’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. 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

• We’re Safety Conscious

  • We integrate #staysafe, our top priority at Cruise, into our everyday work. Through our Safety Management System, every Cruiser is asked to do their part by reporting any potential issues or hazards they observe and making continuous improvements. You’ll be able to contribute to safety at Cruise, no matter your job function or title.

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.