Senior Engineering Manager, Maneuver Planning
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 Maneuver Planning Senior Engineering Manager is accountable for strategy and execution of the maneuver planning teams. Maneuver planning is responsible for consuming inputs from Prediction, Localization, Mapping, Routing, etc., and computing real-time maneuver decisions and high level trajectories. This role includes setting high level technical direction by working with Technical Product Managers to build project roadmaps, prioritize work and execute against those plans. This also includes building a world class engineering organization capable of scaling as the company grows; this includes mentoring and growing strong engineering managers.
- Lead and grow a team of 3+ robotics software engineering teams
- Work with your team, Technical Project Managers and external stakeholders to build, prioritize and execute against an engineering roadmap
- Guide the team to create a technical direction and execution plan to solve ambiguous autonomous vehicle problems
- Balance interrupt driven work against those long term plans - e.g. demo
- Create and uphold engineering processes as we scale
- Represent your team in cross-functional and executive meetings
- Embody Cruise behaviors: Stay Safe, Own It, Stay Focused, Seek Truth, Work Together, Be Humble
What you must have:
- Managed multiple teams and initiatives in a fast-paced engineering organization on the company critical path
- Successfully grown software engineering teams by growing engineering managers and driving external leadership recruiting
- A track record of shipping production quality software for complex products
- Experience as an engineer delivering results within large-scale, robotics, or safety-critical project environments
- Self motivation to proactively lead your team to deliver high quality and value software
Bonus points!
- Domain experience in path planning, optimization, control theory, graph theory, machine learning and the like
- Contributing production quality C++ software at scale
- Exposure to verifying and validating safety critical software and systems
- Experience developing autonomous vehicles
- Remarkably organized and have a keen eye for even the most minute details
- A proven self-starter that has the ability to troubleshoot and resolve roadblocks as they occur
- Adaptable-- able to shift gears at a moment's notice!
- A genuine people-person, balancing the right amount of friendliness and professionalism
- Always striving to improve and iterate on best practices
- An excellent written and verbal communicator
- Passionate about self-driving cars and their impact on the world!
Bonus Points!
- 1+ years in an Administrative/Recruiting role
- Familiarty with an ATS platform (i.e. Greenhouse, Lever)
- Experience working with external recruiters and agencies
- An established network of potential hires
- Experience organizing external events/managing projects at universities, conferences, in-house, etc.
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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