Engineering Manager, Data Science
We’re Cruise, the self-driving ride-hailing service.
We are 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.
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.
We are looking for a talented manager to lead a team of data scientists and applied scientists who are mining the petabytes of data we collect from the streets of San Francisco. You will develop methods for detecting on-road failures and attributing them to common situations, scenes, and vehicle software components. You will design offline testing strategies that give high confidence in the vehicle’s performance before it is sent onto the road. And you will do it by nurturing and growing a high-functioning, diverse team.
At Cruise, we believe in managers who remain deeply technical, and understand the challenges their teams are facing even though they may not be contributing vast amounts of code day to day. Our managers coach their teams to success, shield their teams from distractions, and help publicly celebrate wins.
What you'll be doing:
- Directly oversee data scientists and applied scientists building performant predictive models, robust data pipelines, and delightful user interfaces for customers.
- Maintain strong collaborative relationships with managers of supporting engineering teams, helping define synchronized data science and engineering roadmaps.
- Conduct performance reviews, identify top performers, and support professional and personal growth.
- Invest heavily in recruiting by working closely with recruiters, screening candidates, and identifying opportunities for external engagement to improve the Cruise Data Science brand.
What you must have:
- You have 3+ years experience managing data science or applied science teams.
- You have an additional 5+ years experience as a data scientist or applied scientist in metrics or experimentation applications.
- You are obsessed with customer success and understanding customer pain points, even when they are hard to describe.
- You actively mentor and coach data scientists and applied scientists along their chosen career paths, advising them from your personal experience.
- You design roadmaps to develop stable technology for flexible use cases.
- You have managed projects requiring alignment across operations, engineering, and research teams.
- You leverage analytics and engineering resources when available, but are comfortable designing and building your own end-to-end data pipelines when necessary.
- You have advanced training (MS or PhD) in statistics, physics, economics, or another relevant quantitative discipline.
Bonus Points!
- Experience as the directly responsible individual for reporting your employer’s core business metrics.
- An MBA (because leadership and executive communication are skills, not just talents).
- Specific technical expertise in time series data modeling and causal inference.
- Experience building and deploying solutions on Google’s Cloud Platform.
- Experience in a related domain such as robotics, automation, or the physical sciences
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 integrated 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 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 bleeding-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. 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.
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