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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.

This team is responsible for the Autonomous Vehicle (AV) level validation strategy and plan. The scope covers all programs and vehicle platforms. The ownership and execution of system integration and system test for the AV are distributed throughout the organization, and this team formulates requirements and interfaces to ensure that the overall activity is logical and coherent.

As the TLM or Manager of this team, you are expected to staff, lead, grow and develop a team of engineers who will work working backwards from a milestone and associated safety targets, and establish the overall strategy and validation plan. This is formulated as a structured set of analyses, simulations, metrics and tests which will be the technical criteria to assess the readiness to launch the system in the target environment.

In addition, you are expected to play a direct and strong role as a technology leader: inventing solutions, defining technical strategies and validation methods that accelerate development and scale with the complexity of the driving environment. You will make strategic decisions and guide the engineering execution on key initiatives.

What you'll be doing: 

• • Hire, mentor, and motivate an outstanding team of engineers responsible for defining clear test campaigns, identifying gaps, proposing solutions, and specifying the requirements for validation methods, tools and test environments
  • Collaborate with other teams to define a comprehensive integration and verification campaign with consistent interfaces. This includes system integration and V&V for the major subsystems such as the Host Vehicle, the AV System, and the Passenger Experience system; and verification activities in the HIL to test interface performance as well as fault injection to verify the functional safety mechanisms (fault detection and system response)
  • Participate in the development of safety and AV behavior related topline metrics.
  • Define an approach to establish that the system is sufficiently robust to internal faults, errors and performance limitations; and partner with the functional teams who are responsible for the details of fault modeling, fault injection, sensitivity analysis, and framework development
  • Define a strategy that balances simulation, closed course testing and real-world driving, and planning vehicle closed course testing, including clear criteria to define test cases
  • Collaborate with Simulation to mirror performance in closed course tests and use simulated test cases to enable AV performance

  What you must have:

  • Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree, or PhD in an engineering discipline such as Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Robotics or related field
  • Ability to lead with multi-functional communication and collaboration skills
  • 2+ years of experience as a hiring manager, recruiting and retaining the best talent
  • 10+ years experience in systems engineering including system verification and validation
  • Experience in test traceability from system level to component level
  • Experience with verification and validation activities and system test planning, from test cases / procedure development to test execution, and developing test environments and frameworks
  • Experience driving and influencing as an advocate for safety across all levels of hardware and software development
  • Hands-on experience with mechanical, electrical, and software component integration, ability to troubleshoot complex issues during system integration process
  • Proven track record of successes, e.g. having successfully managed the validation of a system or product to ensure safety

  Bonus points!

  • Direct experience in autonomous vehicle industry on system level testing
  • Experience with fast-growth companies and recruiting/retaining the best talent

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 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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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. 

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