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 Simulation team delivers products that accelerate our autonomous vehicle development, testing, and deployment through specialized frameworks and tools.
As a Staff Software Engineer on this team, you will be helping us replicate complex road situations in our simulated environments to improve our autonomous performance in the real world. Specifically, you will design and implement synthetic simulation frameworks and scalable APIs that validate AV behavior at large scale. You will also be responsible for building the infrastructure and orchestration involved in the development and release of an automated test and validation pipeline.
Day-to-day responsibilities include:
Build reliable and scalable simulator tools and frameworks to support AV software development.
Build simulation infrastructures and orchestration tools to scale up test executions and validation pipelines.
Build distributed APIs and microservices for telemetry, SDKs, and other simulation technologies.
Work closely with autonomous vehicle engineering and System Test Engineering to enable rapid development and model feedback
Maintain a high technical standard for code quality on the team, through architectural design and code reviews
Thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative work environment where immediate impact is a result of your efforts and where your contribution is highly visible
You should apply for this role if you have the following qualifications:
BS, MS or PhD in CS or equivalent real-world experience
8+ years C++ experience with demonstrated proficiency in C++14 and above
Experience developing modern 2D/3D simulation such as: high-performance math libraries, geometries, physics, and AI
Experience with ROS or other robot systems
Solid understanding of 2D and 3D math used in simulation or Robotics
Experience with containerized platforms (docker, kubernetes, etc.), and relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL) and scalable backend APIs, microservices, Kubernetes.
Ability to communicate well across teams of developers and other staff
History of mentoring engineers in software development best practices
Expertise in gathering requirements and writing technical design documents
Experience implementing unit tests, evaluating code coverage, and developing key software development lifecycle methodologies
Bonus Points!
Experience building simulation tools for autonomous vehicles or other AI/Robotics applications
Experience with Bazel or similar build systems
Experience with performance profiling and optimization
Experience with software verification and validation
The salary range for this position is $170,000 - 250,000. Compensation will vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, skills and experience. You may also be offered a bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits. These ranges are subject to change.
Why Cruise?
- Our benefits are here to support the whole you:
- Medical / dental / vision, AD+D and life insurance
- Subsidized mental health benefits
- One Medical membership
- Flexible Spending Account
- Monthly wellness stipend
- 401(k) match
- Paid time off: vacation, sick, public health emergency, jury duty, bereavement and company holidays.
- Paid parental, family care and medical leave
- Family care benefits: fertility benefits, Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (subsidized by Cruise).
- Non-remote employees: Pre-tax Commuter Benefit Plan, healthy meals and snacks
- 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.
- We’re Safety Conscious
- We integrate #staysafe, our top priority at Cruise, into our everyday work. Through our Safety Management System, every Cruiser is asked to do their part by reporting any potential issues or hazards they observe and making continuous improvements. You’ll be able to contribute to safety at Cruise, no matter your job function or title.
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.
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.
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