About the Role:

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) runs a heterogeneous software with a variety of tasks, each with different requirements of hardware/compute resources. These AV tasks run on a custom made heterogeneous hardware platform, with its inherent constraints and limitations. In order to maintain stability of the software stack while allowing continuous innovation and improvement to its tasks and features, it is important to have reliable and efficient performance testing solutions at scale.

Cruise is looking for a software engineer to help productionize our core AV performance testing platforms at scale. As part of the Performance Testing team, you will be collaborating closely with different AV Engineering teams (e.g. Perception, Prediction, Planning, Localization, SW Platform) to scope, design, develop and maintain AV performance testing infrastructure; improving its fidelity, performance reliability, and coverage. The performance testing platform evolves simultaneously with the AV compute platform counterpart; thus the need for continuous design and development of a new generation that is optimized for reliability and scalability.

What you’ll be doing:

• Work closely with key stakeholders to design, implement and test new software features which expand the capabilities of our performance testing platforms
• Optimize the testing platform to improve its fidelity and performance
• Help educate performance testing customers and users, helping the team promote performance-driven development culture
• Work with Infrastructure and Hardware teams to identify and solve reliability and scalability challenges
  
  

What you must have: 

• 5+ years of professional experience in software design and engineering
• Strong expertise in writing production quality Python code 
• Expertise in writing production quality C++ code
• Comfortable and experienced in software development lifecycle - coding, debugging, optimization, testing, integration
• Comfortable and experienced in working with Git
• Extensive experience with software development in Linux and using its system tools

Bonus points!  

• Go-lang, strong SQL skills
• Containers: building, deployment, and management (e.g., Docker)
• Experience with AV technology stacks
• 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
    • Flexible vacation and company paid holidays
    • Healthy meals and snacks provided
    • Paid parental leave & family expansion stipend
    • Monthly wellness stipend
    • Commuter benefits

• 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, SoftBank, and 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 bleeding-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. All applicants for employment will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, genetics or any other legally protected basis. Below, you have the opportunity to share your preferred gender pronouns, gender, ethnicity, and veteran status with Cruise to help us identify areas of improvement in our hiring and recruitment processes. Completion of these questions is entirely voluntary. Any information you choose to provide will be kept confidential, and will not impact the hiring decision in any way.

We also consider for employment qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable laws. And, if you believe that you will need any type of accommodation, please let us know.

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.