Staff Data Science Engineer

Key Skills

Apache Airflow, Apache Beam, Apache Hadoop, Data pipelines, Google BigQuery, Google Dataflow, Kubeflow, Luigi, Python Programming, SPARK Programming, 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.

The Staff Data Engineer, Data Science will work directly with Data Scientists, Autonomous Vehicle (AV) engineers, Product Managers and leadership to develop data pipelines that extract key insights from our massive real-world and simulation data. As a leader on the team you will be responsible for both doing IC work in a self-guided manner as well as leading the work of other ICs on the team. You will be responsible for establishing roadmaps for the projects you lead in concert with the project stakeholders. You will be responsible for establishing and modeling best development practices, ensuring that our team’s practices adhere to the state of the art, and for ensuring the rest of the team develop their career by expanding their technical skillset. The ideal candidate for this role brings technical leadership experience on cross-functional projects and is passionate about using data to answer hard questions, delivering robust software, optimizing and automating processes, and collaborating with others to help them solve hard problems.

What you’ll be doing:

• Act as a “tech lead” on both internal and cross-functional projects: work with team leads and engineering leadership to prioritize development roadmaps and plan future projects, prioritize and plan the team’s work, communicate with stakeholders on progress, and unblock team members
• Play a key role in others’ professional development, adding value to their career via improving their technical skills
• As an IC and team lead, build and maintain data pipelines using Google BigQuery, Dataflow, and other distributed processing tools. These pipelines will process petabytes of information and will:
• Pre-process raw AV data to power ML models and to make self-serve analysis simple for Data Scientists and Engineers
• Calculate business-critical metrics that are used by executives and engineers to make prioritization decisions
• Perform data mining to help accelerate development of AV software
• Identify opportunities to simplify workflows, automate tasks, and build components that are reusable across multiple use-cases and teams

What you must have:

• 7+ years experience in Data Engineering or back-end Software Engineering
• A track record of leading cross-functional initiatives
• Strong proficiency with Python and SQL
• Experience with building and maintaining distributed data pipelines
• Experience with MapReduce frameworks (Hadoop, Spark, BigQuery) and/or Apache Beam/Google Dataflow
• Experience with workflow management tooling (eg. Airflow, Kubeflow Pipelines, Luigi)
• Creative, resourceful, and enthusiastic about seeking new solutions to problems and opportunities

Bonus points!

• Experience managing agile teams using Jira
• Experience with building end-to-end ML workflows (Data Munging -> Data Preparation -> Modeling)
• Experience with DBT
• Experience working on a data platform team focused on distributed compute
• Experience in AV or Automotive industry

The salary range for this position is $166,600 - $245,100. 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