Senior Machine Learning Engineer II, Machine Learning Infrastructure

Key Skills

AWS, Azure, Data science techniques, Design, Effective communication skills, GoLang, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Leadership Skill, Machine learning techniques, Python Programming, PyTorch, SQL

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 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 autonomous 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 the AV stack performance.

About the role:

The ML Data Shop team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to design and implement platforms that support data search, labeling and dataset management that accelerate the AV model development.

What you’ll be doing: 

• Use the latest cloud technologies to design, implement, and test scalable distributed data systems. Champion engineering excellence by continuously improving systems and processes.
• Build automation that surfaces insights on how machine learning engineers can improve workflow efficiency. 
• Work closely with machine learning engineers to enable cutting-edge R&D efforts and improve existing systems.
• Own technical projects from start to finish. Effectively participate in team’s planning, code reviews and design discussions
• Work together with partner teams and orgs to achieve cross-departmental goals and satisfy broad requirements

What we are looking for: 

• BS, MS or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or another relevant field; or equivalent real-world experience
• Solid understanding of modern deep learning and computer vision concepts, model architectures, algorithms and techniques.
• Experience working on computer vision, machine learning or related projects using PyTorch (or similar)
• Experience writing high quality and scalable code in Golang, TypeScript, or Python (or similar)
• Experience building tools that are core to a machine learning engineer’s daily work
• Experience in object oriented programming, data structures, algorithm design, best practices, and complexity analysis.

Bonus points!

• Experience working on projects using data centric AI, active learning techniques
• Experience with autonomous vehicle technology and multi-sensor labeling (LiDAR, camera, radar etc.)
• Experience with Google Cloud, AWS, Azure, or similar
• Experience working closely with product managers, designers, and user experience researchers

The salary range for this position is $144,800 - 212,800. 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