Engineering Manager, Ground Truth Automation
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.
The Ground Truth organization is responsible for creating and maintaining high quality datasets that are used for training and validation of models running on the AV. Within this organization the Automation team focuses on researching and prototyping solutions to massively increase the rate of dataset iteration to improve AV performance. We deal with a variety of sensor modalities, and develop state of the art algorithms and machine learning models that work together with humans to create high quality, high volume, high value datasets.
Our engineers are a talented group of individuals who work in a highly collaborative and high pressure environment. We are looking for experienced engineering managers who lead by example, thrive in a fast-paced environment, and are able to guide, mentor, grow, and support engineering teams so each engineer can perform at the top of their engineering game.
What you'll be doing:
- Direct oversight of applied scientists and software engineers building perception models, algorithms and pipelines to label sensor data with ground truth
- Coach and support Individual Contributor reports, and resolve conflicts both within your team, and between teams
- Act as a sounding board and technical architect for your teams, help define technical vision and strategy, and ensure the technical direction of your teams aligns with other teams across the company
- Set direction for the team, anticipate strategic and scaling-related challenges
- Invest heavily in recruiting by working closely with recruiters, screening candidates, and identifying opportunities for external engagement to improve the Cruise engineering brand
- Advocate for your team, manage expectations, celebrate success
- Foster a healthy and collaborative culture
- Help define, build, and embody Cruise engineering culture and principles
- Ensure your team delivers high output
What you must have:
- Experience managing projects across multiple teams
- Experience managing, mentoring, and coaching Senior/Staff Applied Scientists
- Experience building and architecting large-scale, production quality backend systems, especially in applied machine learning or data pipeline/warehousing
- Self motivated and passionate to lead your teams, encourage best practices, and constantly improve
- Passionate about self-driving technology and its potential impact on the world
- BS, MS or PhD in CS, Math, or equivalent real-world experience
- 8+ years of industry experience, including 3+ years as Tech Lead or Manager
Bonus points!
- You have a proven track record of shipping perception / model related solutions on time
- You have a track record of deeply understanding and innovating on behalf of your customers
- Leadership experience in defining long-term team vision/roadmap for unknown or rapidly changing scope
- Technical experience in
- AV / Robotics domains
- Deep learning frameworks (eg Tensorflow)
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.
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