Senior Software Engineer, Camera and Lens Simulation (Vegetation)
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 looking for a Senior Software Engineer - Camera and Lens Simulation and Vegetation to help our 3D Simulation team achieve technical excellence.
In this position, you will work closely with 3D Simulation and Sensor Software engineers as well as our Simulation Content developers to build systems that support our real time 3D simulation environment.
If you're keen on an opportunity to have a big impact on the delivery of 3D simulation systems that ultimately help Cruise deliver self-driving vehicles that eclipse the capabilities of human drivers, join us!
What you'll be doing:
- Work with technical art to help set budgets that help maintain target performance profiles
- Continuously strive to improve the efficiency of our CPU/GPU software systems
- Help us evaluate and maintain our hardware specifications for both desktop and cloud computing environments
- Design and implement core systems that support the needs of 3D Simulation at Cruise
- Collaborate with our team to deliver features that contribute to the success of AV engineering
What you must have:
- 4+ years experience developing AAA games
- Deep C++ knowledge with demonstrated proficiency in C++11 and above
- Solid understanding of 3D math used in game engines and graphics feature development
- Domain expertise in game engine or graphics programming
- Experience developing 3D game engine systems such as: high-performance math libraries, streaming, LOD, visibility, rendering, game object frameworks, game data pipelines, animation and AI
- Experience working on cross-platform software
- BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience
- Passion for fully-electric, self-driving technology and its potential impact on the world
Bonus Points!
- 1+ years experience using Unreal Engine 4 in a production environment is highly desirable.
- Designing and building procedural content pipelines
- Prior simulation experience, especially an understanding of autonomous vehicle sensor simulation
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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