Staff Technical Lead Manager, ML Acceleration

Key Skills

C++, Data science techniques, Linux Operating system, Python Programming

Job Description

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

• 7+ years of professional experience in software design and engineering management roles.
• Strong expertise in writing production quality Python/C++ code
• Experience defining roadmap and leading execution, with a track record of collaborating with multiple teams to deliver business impact
• Experienced in team building, mentorship and career development.
• Experience with building infrastructure to evaluate performance of software systems on edge devices
• Extensive experience with software development in Linux and using its system tools
• Experienced in driving good software development lifecycle practices - coding, debugging, optimization, testing, and integration

Bonus points!

• Experience with AV technology stacks
• Experience with Data science and statistics
• Experience working with production infrastructure
• Previous experience building, or working on, HIL test platforms

The salary range for this position is $193,900 - 285,000. 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:

• Competitive salary and benefits 
• 401(k) Cruise matching program 
• Medical / dental / vision, AD+D and Life
• Subsidized mental health benefits
• Flexible vacation and company paid holidays
• Healthy meals and snacks available for non-remote employees
• Paid parental, jury duty, bereavement, family care, and medical leave
• Fertility Benefits
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
• Flexible Spending Account 
• Pre-tax Commuter Benefit Plan for non-remote employees
• CruiseFlex, a working policy for US-Based Cruisers, lets you and your manager find the working style that’s best for you, whether it’s primarily in-person, primarily at home, or a combination of home and in-office time. - learn more about CruiseFlex here

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.

The Autonomous Vehicle (AV) software stack is a complex workload that includes compute and data intensive functions within perception, prediction, planning and controls. This role is within the ML Accelerators (MLA) team which drives the maintenance and optimization of the software stack for real-time, on-road performance. This means efficient workload mapping onto a heterogeneous, resource-constrained hardware, co-architecting the HW platform with HW engineers and building products and tools for AI deployment and performance profiling, diagnosis and optimizations that can be employed by AV engineers. In MLA, we work in close collaboration with AV engineers throughout the lifecycle of developing new AV features, that are deployed to improve key AV product qualities (e.g. safety, reliability); all of which very critical to the success of our mission.

In this role, you will be collaborating closely with different teams to scope, design, develop and maintain AV performance testing platform that is on the critical path of continuous AV SW release and validation processes. You will drive initiatives to improve the platform's fidelity, reliability, scalability, efficiency and coverage. Moreover, given that the testing platform evolves simultaneously with the AV compute platform counterpart, your strong leadership is needed to influence requirements and design of the future custom AV hardware platforms.

If you're interested in building scalable platforms for validating performance and reliability of heterogeneous custom compute systems, and want to test your skills with real-world (and practical) applications in the AV domain, let's connect!

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:

• Drive the software architecture design and roadmap for the hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing platform targeting runtime performance of future AV hardware
• Understand different customer use-cases and deliver a production quality software platform with high reliability, fidelity, and efficiency
• Collaborate with key partner teams in other departments (Infrastructure, Simulation and AV Software) to identify and de-risk major gaps and maintain an effective testing product in the continuous release process
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship and coaching of other members of the team or projects
• Define customer-facing SLAs and collaborate with partner teams to maintain and improve those metrics