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Staff Robotics Software Engineer, Perception at Cruise

San Francisco, CA

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.

We’re Cruise, the self-driving ride-hailing service. We are building the world’s most sophisticated, all-electric, self-driving cars to safely connect people to the places, things, and experiences they care about. We believe self-driving cars will help save lives, reinvent cities, redefine 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 an opportunity to thrive in a variety of subject areas. This is a place for dreams and doers to succeed.

If you are looking to tackle one of today’s most sophisticated 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.

This role drives the various robotics aspects of the perception software stack. The specific duties include streamlining optimization, integration, pipeline development, sensor data preprocessing, sensor hardware collaboration, introspection, productionalization, and designing for fast experimentation cycles.

What you’ll be doing:

• Collaborating with various specialists to get algorithms and ML models deployed and integrated into the perception stack, with an eye on optimization and simplification of these procedures.

• Working on runtime optimization and architecting highly performant perception pipelines.

• Working with hardware teams to guide compute requirements, sensor selection, and sensor suite architecture in support of the perception stack, both for current and future vehicle generations.

• Working on integration of the sensor data into the stack and craft a highly efficient data flow that feeds into a different stage of the real-time algorithms

• Spotting and collaboratively closing gaps in tooling and data introspection to accelerate engineer velocity within Perception.

What you must have:

• 8+ years of experience in the field of robotics or latency-sensitive backend services

• Strong programming skills in modern C++

• Strong understanding of runtime optimization and software development for runtime-critical systems on Linux

• Experience with profiling CPU and/or GPU software, process scheduling, and prioritization.

• 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 overtime without major disruptions.

• Ability to design across multiple systems. Ability to both investigate in sophisticated areas as well as a good breadth of understanding of systems outside of your domain.

• Ability to wear several hats shifting between coding, design, technical strategy, and mentorship combined with excellent judgment on when to switch contexts to meet the greatest need.

Bonus points!

• Experience with ROS, OpenCV

• Experience with CUDA

• Experience with ML and ML frameworks such as Tensorflow or PyTorch

• Expertise working with various sensor technologies, including Lidar, Radar, and Camera

• Experience in deploying perception algorithms into real-world environments

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

• Flexible vacation and company paid holidays

• Healthy meals and snacks provided

• Paid parental leave & family expansion stipend

• Monthly wellness stipend

• Commuter benefits

• We’re Integrated

• Through our partnerships with General Motors and Honda, we are the only self-driving company with fully coordinated manufacturing at scale.

• We’re Funded

• GM, Honda, SoftBank, and T. Rowe Price 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 top tier autonomous vehicle organizations in the industry.

• We’re Independent

• We have our own governance, board of directors, equity, and investors. Our independence allows us to not just work on the bleeding-edge of technology, but also define it.

• We’re Vested

• We are contending in a market that is projected to grow exponentially, which gives our company valuation room to grow.

Cruise LLC is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants for employment will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, genetics, or any other legally protected basis. Below, you have the opportunity to share your preferred gender pronouns, gender, ethnicity, and veteran status with Cruise to help us identify areas of improvement in our hiring and recruitment processes. Completion of these questions is entirely voluntary. Any information you choose to provide will be kept confidential, and will not impact the hiring decision in any way.

We also consider for employment qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable laws. And, if you believe that you will need any type of accommodation, please let us know.

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.

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

• One Medical membership

• Flexible vacation and company paid holidays

• Healthy meals and snacks provided for non-remote employees

• Paid parental leave

• Fertility Benefits

• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, subsidized by Cruise

• Flexible Spending Account

• Monthly wellness stipend

• Pre-tax Commuter Benefit Plan for non-remote employees

• We’re Remote Friendly

• We believe that your value to the team can be provided at a Cruise office or from the comfort of your home. Depending on your function, enjoy the flexibility of remote work and join our growing community of remote employees in the continental United States.

• 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, SoftBank, & T. Rowe Price, 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.

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.