Engineering Manager, Machine Learning Infrastructure, ML Data Shop

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San Francisco
3-5 Years Experience
Artificial Intelligence • Automotive • Machine Learning • Robotics • Transportation
We’re building self-driving vehicles to improve life in our cities. They’re safe, shared, and all-electric.
The Role

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.

About the team: 

The ML Data Shop team is part of the data centric AI ML infrastructure vital for Cruise’s global expansion and commercial scaling. We build a highly reliable, scalable, and cost effective platform to search for impactful on-road scenarios, label the data, prepare the resulting dataset for model training, and close the model performance feedback loop.

About the role: 

We are looking for an Engineering Manager with strong track records of fostering a culture of psychological safety, dependability, and clarity. You will support a high performance team delivering a data search and mining platform to surface vital data for Cruise’s data needs. 

*Position can be based in either San Francisco or Seattle areas.

What you’ll be doing: 

  • Support a team of strong engineers delivering a data search and mining platform to surface vital data for Cruise’s data needs.
  • Help grow the team by playing an essential role in recruiting activities, onboarding new hires, and mentoring junior engineers
  • Drive long-term planning and establish scalable processes for execution.
  • Work with teams across Cruise to foster a collaborative culture of quality and safety
  • Help define, build, and model Cruise engineering culture and principles to deliver high quality products while maintaining great work life balance for the team.

What you must have: 

  • 3+ years experience supporting high performance engineering teams.
  • 3+ years experience building highly reliable and scalable managed services.
  • Experience with search, data mining, recommendation engine, or multimedia retrieval.
  • Effective at creating, communicating, and executing on team vision and strategy.
  • Passionate about self-driving technology and its potential impact on the world.
  • Startup mentality - openness to dealing with unknown unknowns and wearing many hats.

Bonus points! 

  • Experience working on model performance feedback loops.
  • Experience working on projects using data centric AI, active learning techniques.
  • Experience using Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, Beam or other data processing tools
  • Track record of impact in the AI industries
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
  • 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.
  • 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. We offer a new kind of equity program called Recurring Liquidity Opportunity (RLO), which combines IPO-like liquidity with the stability of remaining private - learn more about RLO here
  • We’re Safety Conscious
    • We integrate #staysafe, our top priority at Cruise, into our everyday work. Through our Safety Management System, every Cruiser is asked to do their part by reporting any potential issues or hazards they observe and making continuous improvements. You’ll be able to contribute to safety at Cruise, no matter your job function or title.

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. 

The Company
San Francisco, CA
2,500 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2013

What We Do

Cruise is building the world’s most advanced self-driving vehicles to safely connect people with the places, things, and experiences they care about.

Through our partnerships with General Motors and Honda, we are the only self-driving company with fully integrated manufacturing at scale, building all-electric, zero-emission, self-driving vehicles that will help save lives, reimagine cities, reduce carbon pollution, redefine time in transit, and restore freedom of movement for individuals who live in dense urban settings.

Together, we believe our world-class partners, deep resources, and technology approach of testing in a complex urban environment will help to deliver self-driving vehicles at scale.

Why Work With Us

Your work on all-electric, self-driving vehicles will save lives, help the planet, and make cities better. It’s something to be proud of...and it’s career-defining work.

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