Engineering Manager, Mapping
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
Mapping provides navigational knowledge and intelligence of the world to AV so as to allow it to reason and maneuver safely while driving autonomously. Our organization spans everything from collecting raw data from our vehicles to producing end user maps, and everything in between, labeling, on vehicle map SDK’s, etc.
This is a role for someone who has built large scale productionized distributed systems in the past and is comfortable leading projects and mentoring team members.
What you'll be doing:
- Focus on shipping solid code, with quality never being an afterthought
- Utilize your past experiences to mentor, contribute to, and grow strong team dynamic
- Work cross functionally with stakeholders to ensure client needs are being met and accounted for in project planning
- Participate in coding and feature development
- Participate in growing your team by identifying and hiring top talent
What you must have:
- 3+ years in an engineering lead role, and 5+ years as a developer.
- Solid experience in operating in a production environment.
- Experience owning and shipping products used by end consumers.
- Expert knowledge in designing, building and deploying large-scale distributed systems
- Experience communicating well across functions and groups
- Solid knowledge of object-oriented design, API design, SOA, Node.js (or equivalent), and HTTP.
- Knowledge of front end technologies like React, Redux, etc.
- Passion about building web services and reusable software components: how they're used, how they scale, how they fit together and how they break
Bonus Points!
- Knowledge of computer vision, machine learning, or automated cartographic error detection in maps
- Knowledge of Netty, Vert.x, Akka, or Node.js
- Experience in event driven programming
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.
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