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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.

We are looking for a Senior Bringup Engineer with experience in hardware/system/network architecture, hardware design and validation. In this position, you will be part of the Hardware team, which is responsible for developing the hardware platform for our autonomous vehicles. We partner with electrical engineers, bring up engineers, mechanical engineers, SI engineers, embedded system engineers, technical program managers internally and different vendors externally to ensure high quality components are developed for Cruise.

What you’ll be doing:

• Work with multi-functional teams to come up with the detailed bring up and validation requirements for compute and network components and drive the HW through detailed development and validation cycles.
• Gather requirements, studying high level designs and turning them into smaller building blocks to bring the hardware up and integrate the blocks into a bigger system.
• Communicate requirements and coordinate execution with multiple teams
• Troubleshoot and root cause, document and drive issues to closure
• Work closely with manufacturing/Tier1/Tier2/CM teams to ensure bring up and diagnostics tools are developed accurately for the NPI and Manufacturing.
• Drive multi-functional teams and partners to address challenges seen during integration and bring-up, ensure AV content is seamlessly brought up, validated and tested at the end of line that meets product and business requirements.
• Demonstrate full ownership of assigned systems/components. Lead timelines and resolve project dead lines in order to meet program timing

What you must have:

• BS or MS in Computer Science/Electrical or Electronics engineering or a related subject area
• 5+ years of experience with X86, GPU, Network components diagnostics development and validation
• Driven HW bring up and validation aspects of a complex compute and/or network system.
• Previous bring up and diagnostics experience with x86 CPU’s, GPU’s, SoC’s, interfaces like 25G/10G-KR, 10GBase-T, 1G-T1, PCIe, DDR4, etc.
• Proficient with a variety of hardware bring up tools (like JTAG controller, I2C/SPI tools, etc)
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, ability to learn and confront technical challenges
• Proficiency in C/C++/Python/JSON/Tcl-Tk and/or other scripting languages

Bonus Points!

• Experience in ASIL B/D design implementations
• Leadership experience in hardware bring up and software integration
• Experience in EMI/EMC testing methods, root causing issues
• Experience with firmware development for compute/sensing hardware and testing

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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