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.

You will be joining the technical leadership team of Product Engineering. Our department consists of Autonomous Vehicle (AV) Acceleration, Map Engineering, Fleet Automation, and the Consumer & Partnerships group.

The AV Acceleration group develops products to facilitate the development of AV software. Their customers range from AV developers who need to predict the effects of their code on vehicle performance, to executives who track top-line business metrics. AV Acceleration aims to deliver intuitive robotics and ML experiences that accelerate us towards a driverless future.

The Map engineering group builds and serves geospatial information to shorten the path to a safe and loveable AV experience. Their products include manual and automated labeling tools, a fleet scale mapping platform that includes facilities for real-time change detection, safety validation, and over-the-air deployments.

The Fleet automation group is building the command and control center for autonomous fleets. Their products include a system real-time vehicle configuration including EV/AV maintenance and sensor calibration information. Additionally, Fleet automation designs and runs Cruise’s dispatch service, which instructs and monitors the position of all AV, across all fleets, at all times.

The Consumer group is defining and building applications, tools, and services that empower customers to connect with the places, things, and experiences they care about. Their products include apps, websites and APIs to power rideshare and delivery on our fleets.

What you'll be doing:

You will be a solver or an architect in one or more of our groups.

You will define the technical vision of the department. You will lead technology and architecture decisions including originating and assessing technical designs, and communicating design with engineers, partners, and executives. You will uphold a high technical bar, and drive high quality engineering practices across our department, and across Cruise.

Working collaboratively, you will establish and execute on large multi-department programs. You will work with senior managers and engineers, mentoring, coaching and growing them, to help you accomplish the company’s goals. Studying the customers of our products, you will work with our product managers to understand and evolve our suite of products to better serve our customers.

What you must have:

You must be an expert in building and scaling large-scale full-stack systems with rich APIs, friendly frontends (web, app), and sophisticated datastores.

You must have a wide breadth of technology exposure. We’re looking for you to make connections across different technical stacks, design patterns and development philosophies to come up with novel solutions. Examples include, knowledge of:

• AWS and GCP product suite
• API design and deployment: Real-time, REST, GraphQL etc
• Distributed systems, SOA and/or microservice-based architectures
• Datastores types and their tradeoffs
• Compute deployment strategies including serverless
• Common security vulnerabilities and mitigation
• React and other web frontend development tech

You must be strong at written communication. Your ideas, feedback, key decisions, and technical designs will be shared with other partners, and the company’s executives.

You must be product-minded, refining the value proposition of the products you are building. You must also have an execution-mindset, looking to deliver the most minimalist MVP, which can deliver the highest value for the company. Finally, you must be passionate about self-driving technology, and its impact on the world.

Bonus points!

Experience and interest in ML, embedded systems, mobile app development, ROS, or robotics will be an asset.

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
  • Flexible vacation and company paid holidays
  • Healthy meals and snacks provided for non-remote employees
  • Paid parental 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

• We’re Remote Friendly
  • We believe that your value to the team can be provided at a Cruise office or from the comfort of your home. Depending on your function, enjoy the flexibility of remote work and join our growing community of remote employees in the continental United States.

• 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, SoftBank, & T. Rowe Price, 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.

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.

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