Senior Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning Infrastructure [Remote Friendly]

Key Skills

Autonomous vehicles, Big Data Technology, C++, Database, Java Programming, Machine learning techniques, NoSQL, Product Management, PySpark, Python Programming, Software Development, Spark Core, SQL

Job Description

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.

In our cars, you’re free to be yourself. It’s the same here at Cruise. We’re creating a culture that values the experiences and contributions of all of the unique individuals who collectively make up Cruise, so that every employee can do their best work. 

Cruise is committed to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment, both in our workplace and in our products. 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, come join us. Even if you might not meet every requirement, we strongly encourage you to apply. You might just be the right candidate for us.

We’re Cruise, the self-driving ride-hailing service.

We are 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.

At Cruise, our engineers have opportunities to grow and develop while learning from leaders at the cutting-edge of their fields. With a culture of internal mobility, there's opportunity to thrive in a variety of disciplines. This is a place for dreamers and doers to succeed.

If you are looking to solve one of today’s most complex engineering challenges, see the results of your work in hundreds of self-driving cars, and make a positive impact in the world starting in our cities, join us. 

About the team:

The ML Data Shop team is responsible for building the data platform for Cruise AI, where we build the platform to efficiently search for long tail and impactful on-road scenarios to improve our autonomous vehicles. Our work powers data discovery, labeling and featurization that can reliably scale to serve the petabyte-scale data requirements of Perception and Behavior models. Engineers on this team support self-serving data mining, featurization and labeling platforms which serve as a critical drive to improve AV stack performance.

About the role:

The ML Data Shop team is looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to innovate data search platform solutions to accelerate the AV model development, and to advance Cruise’s commercial programs. What you'll be doing:

At Cruise, the Machine Learning Infrastructure organization (MLI) builds the essential tools, frameworks, and services used by every engineer at Cruise. MLI’s goal is to greatly accelerate the development cycle of AV engineers by building the infrastructure to process, analyze, and learn from the many petabytes of data coming from our AVs, simulated tests, and real time services, empowering engineers to focus on improving the car’s safety and performance.

As an engineer on this team, you will be responsible for building and supporting a petabyte-scale data platform in the cloud and providing powerful foundations for MLI’s tools, frameworks, and services. Responsibilities include ensuring scalable, transparent, and reliable data ingestion and management; development of fast, robust, and spike-resistant data consumption, data mining, and processing tools for the entire company; and development of orchestration for large-scale post-processing, and computational pipelines.

What you’ll be doing: 

• Collaborate with various specialists to work on state-of-the-art data search algorithms and lead the team to build the platform solution to support it at scale, with an eye on the unique challenges from AV applications. 
• Work on algorithm optimization and architecting highly performant, scalable systems to discover and generate data to improve AV model performance.
• Build the cohesive ML Data product that facilitates fast AV model development. 
• Spot and collaboratively close gaps in tooling to accelerate engineering velocity cross organizations within Cruise.
• Stay visionary. Lead the team to identify technical direction and build the vision and strategy for upcoming company pivotal milestones.

What we are looking for: 

General:

• 10+ years of experience in the field of large scale distributed backend services for multimedia search, visual search, information retrieval and similar domains. 
• Strong programming skills in Python or C++.
• Strong understanding of optimization and platform support for large scale data search algorithms.
• Strong mindset on owning process end-to-end, and being customer obsessed. 
• Passionate about self-driving car technology and its impact on the world
• Expertise in setting architectures that are scalable, efficient, fault-tolerant, and are easily extensible allowing for changes over time without major disruptions.