Senior Engineering Manager, Software Systems Test
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.
Cruise is committed to the responsible deployment of the best AV on the road and have built an extraordinary quality team with the resources and backing required to help achieve this. We are in search of a Software Systems Test Senior Engineering Manager for Cruise’s Autonomous Vehicles Software Team. This is a unique opportunity to own and define how autonomous systems are tested and what it takes to get the driver out of the vehicle, safely, and at scale.
Cruise is looking for a Software Systems Test Senior Engineering Manager to help us evaluate, test and challenge the integration of multiple software components at a vehicle level. In this position, you will manage multiple engineering test teams to define test plans, build test benches, execute test runs and collaborate with our software developers, infrastructure, platform, systems engineering, testing frameworks and simulation team to test the AV software to ensure highly reliable systems.
If you're interested in helping us realize a future of truly driverless vehicles, let's chat!
What you'll be doing:
- Work side by side with engineering leadership ensure high quality testing procedures and processes
- Drive from initial designs to production level testing using a plethora of internal tools and technologies
- Drive design requests and decision for simulation and testing tool development teams
- Help define and measure KPIs for quality
- Help ensure tests that are repeatable, realistic and targeted at specific features
- Develop and maintain quality dashboards that allow for quick pulse checks and actionable results
- Hire, mentor, and motivate an exceptional team of System Test Engineers responsible for releasing mission critical products
- Creating a clear vision for all software testing teams with actionable deliverables
- Tracking and reporting test strategies, test execution, maintaining transparent and comprehensive test documentation, ensuring thoughtful and efficient test coverage
- Understanding the subsystem level impact of testing coverage choices and guiding the team to make efficient and effective testing trade-offs
- Managing overall testing strategies for the AV engineering organization
- Determining long term documentation strategies for change control purposes
- Determine strategies for translating on road incidents into robust and maintainable tests to ensure on road performance
What you must have:
- 7+ years of industry experience in managing, implementing, and configuring test solutions for integrated software/robotics systems
- Mix of hands-on skills and management experience in mission-critical product development environments
- Strong organizational skills
- Extensive experience building test plans, regression testing, and root cause analysis
- Experience with large testing databases
- Data driven decision making ability
- Strong cross functional communication and collaboration
- Proven success in detail oriented test plan design and execution
- Ability to learn quickly, starting with little information and quickly becoming an expert in your domain
- BS or MS in Engineering or a related discipline or equivalent combination of education and experience
Bonus Points!
- Experience with setting up complex test management systems and processes
- Experience with working with robotics background knowing regular pitfalls dealing with the boundaries with hardware and software.
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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