Senior Software Engineer II, Calibration & Mapping

Cruise • San Francisco, CA

Company

Cruise

Location

San Francisco, CA

Type

Full Time

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 are actively seeking a Senior Engineer to join our LLCM team. In this role, you'll play a key role in developing and maintaining innovative mapping and calibration solutions. You'll be responsible for designing, implementing and testing algorithms and systems that power our AV, ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and scalability. We seek passionate, highly skilled individuals who can work across our cloud and AV stack to deliver rich solutions that ensure our vehicles can accurately locate themselves, understand their surroundings, and navigate safely.

Day-to-day Responsibilities

  • Design and develop complex, highly scalable, and latency-optimized software in C++

  • Invent, extend, design and develop next-generation features for self-driving car applications

  • Design and implement backend applications and pipelines that can generate and validate map features, deploy maps to the AV and manage map changes in the real-world.

  • Develop and support software stacks that perform the calibration and monitoring of the visual and range sensors on autonomous vehicles, and drive the automation of the testing framework. 

  • Improve and deliver reliable software through continuous integration, automated testing and code reviews

  • Work closely with vehicle engineering to enable real-time vehicle communication and feedback

  • Develop APIs for client services and vehicle communication

  • Communicate across functions and groups including Product, Design, and end users. 

  • Be a role model and mentor for others in technical matters

Skills/Qualifications (must-have)

  • 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer writing production quality code in C++

  • Experience building microservice-based backend systems with SQL or NoSQL databases

  • BS, MS or PhD in CS, Math, Physics, or equivalent real-world experience

  • Experience on development and testing of numerical linear algebra, and optimization software

  • Experience with Geometric Computer Vision, and Image Processing algorithms and software 

  • Experience fixing, diagnosing, testing and resolving issues in production environments

  • Strong organizational and communication skills

Skills/Qualifications (nice-to-have/bonus)

  • Experience in the AV industry, particularly in Mapping & Localization, and/or Calibration

  • Experience in complex AV SW stack testing and release automation

  • Experience with Linux

  • Experience with ROS

  • Experience with Python

  • Experience with OpenCV, and Eigen

  • Experience using Node.js or using typescript or javascript

  • Experience with with queuing and event streaming solutions such as GCP pub/sub or similar

  • Experience with kubernetes, docker or packaging applications for cloud deployment.


The salary range for this position is $178,500 - $210,000. Compensation will vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. You may also be offered a bonus, long-term incentives, and benefits. These ranges are subject to change.

Why Cruise?

Our benefits are here to support the whole you:

  • Competitive salary and benefits 
  • Medical / dental / vision, Life and AD&D
  • Subsidized mental health benefits
  • Paid time off and holidays
  • Paid parental, medical, family care, and military leave of absence
  • 401(k) Cruise matching program 
  • Fertility benefits
  • Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
  • Flexible Spending Account & Health Saving Account
  • Perks Wallet program for benefits/perks
  • Pre-tax Commuter benefit plan for local employees
  • CruiseFlex, our location-flexible work policy. (Learn more about CruiseFlex).

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, T. Rowe Price, and Walmart 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.

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, caste, 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 [email protected].

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.

Candidates applying for roles that operate and remotely operate the AV: Licensed to drive a motor vehicle in the U.S. for the three years immediately preceding your application, currently holding an active in-state regular driver’s license or equivalent, and no more than one point on driving record. A successful completion of a background check, drug screen and DMV Motor Vehicle Record check is also required.

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. 

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Date Posted

03/19/2024

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