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.

In this position, you will partner with Hardware Design, Systems, and Field Operations Engineers to identify, quantify, and design plans to mitigate reliability risks for new AV hardware. You will work closely with suppliers and partners to ensure the validation plan is executed correctly and that any failures are addressed by corrective actions informed by proven understanding of root cause. If you are interested in breaking really cool things and working to make them even better, let’s chat!

Day-to-day responsibilities include:

• Facilitate and drive DFMEA (design failure mode and effect analysis) with designers, SMEs (subject matter experts), and test engineers to identify testing and validation needs for new designs.
• Define test plans to de-risk clean sheet designs from prototype through production.
• Develop tests based on physics of failure for electronic, optical and/or electromechanical systems.
• Collaborate with test engineers and technicians to review and report test results.
• Collaborate with Fleet Reliability team to understand the field issues and feedback to cross functional teams for resolution.
• Work with design, test and manufacturing engineers to define design and/or process improvements to address reliability issues based on understanding of root cause.
• Perform statistical analyses of lab and field test results and clearly communicate results.
• Drive root cause analysis on test failure to identify the root causes and corrective actions.
• Present reliability/validation test progress and results in program reviews.

You should apply for this role if you have the following qualifications:

• BS in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or equivalent degree and experience.
• 6+ years experience in hardware reliability test planning and development in consumer electronics, automotive, aerospace or related industries.
• Familiarity with DFMEA (design failure mode and effect analysis) and product development process / life cycle.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration, communication, and presentation skills.
• Strong understanding of physics of failure and application to electromechanical systems.
• Solid understanding of statistics and its application to reliability engineering.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to balance multiple projects simultaneously.

Bonus points!

• Experience in the automotive/ADAS/AV industry.
• Experience with electronics and/or sensor systems such as cameras, LiDARs, radars and data processing/computing modules.
• Experience developing reliability test profiles based on field data.
• Familiarity with reliability data analysis tools, e.g. JMP, Reliasoft Weibull++.
• Familiarity with automotive validation standards.
• Familiarity with failure analysis techniques such as optical microscopy, SEM, CT scan, X-Ray, EDS, FTIR, etc.
• Familiarity with Confluence, JIRA, JAMA.

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. 

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.

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 HR@getcruise.com.

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.

Vaccine Mandate. 

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. 

If you are unable to get a vaccine due to a medical condition, disability, or a strongly-held religious belief, Cruise will consider requests for an accommodation.

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.