Staff Software Engineer, Cruise
Customer Support
$175-258k
You may also be offered a bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits
Self-driving vehicles
Job no longer available
Self-driving vehicles
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$175-258k
You may also be offered a bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a better world by deploying driverless cars at scale.
Role
Who you are
- BS, MS, or higher degree, in CS/CE/EE, or equivalent industry experience
- 8+ years of experience in building impactful software products
- Strong programming skills and experience with both Front-end (React, Webpack, Babel) and Back-end(Golang, Python, Java or C++) technologies
- Excellent communication, reasoning and consensus building skills
- Expertise in defining architectures that are scalable, efficient, fault-tolerant, and are easily extensible allowing for changes overtime without major disruptions
- Ability to design across multiple systems. Ability to both dive deep into complex areas as well as a good breadth of understanding of systems outside of your domain
- Ability to wear several hats shifting between coding, design, technical strategy, and mentorship combined with excellent judgment on when to switch contexts to meet the greatest need
- Experience mentoring senior and junior engineers and leading cross-functional and cross-team projects
- Passionate about self driving car technology and its impact on the world!
What the job involves
- Work with teams across Cruise to build the best customer support experience for the Ride Hail, Delivery and any future Cruise product offerings
- Considered the key technical leader of the area who guides current and future technology choices and influences product direction
- Have a deep understanding of the business and operational impact of different technology tradeoffs, and able to balance effectively and pivot if needed based on company’s need
- Enable others engineers on the team to be more effective through design and code that is easy to extend and contribute into. Sought after coach and mentor
- Capable of influencing others and building consensus even over contentious technical debates
- Drive strong engineering practices and a high bar of quality for our product offerings
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
The taxi industry has seen dramatic changes through mobile vehicle-hailing apps such as Uber, but these services focus simply on ease-of-access to regular taxi services. The automotive industry has seen a vast range of innovations in recent years such as electric cars and self-driving capability, features that are currently not found in existing services.
Cruise brings self-driving autonomy and electric cars together into a taxi-hailing mobile application. In addition to these innovations, the service focuses on efficiency through ride-sharing as opposed to each ride providing a single trip. Whilst other taxi-hailing services will inevitably turn to electric self-driving vehicles, Cruise shows potential to stand out through its AI-fuelled focus on carpooling and fleet efficiency.
Cruise, which has been acquired by General Motors, has received an inordinate amount of funding, including from Honda and Microsoft, with Softbank investing over $2B to scale its technology. A sum of this came after Cruise launched a limited driverless robotaxi service to the public in San Francisco. However, the company is now facing lawsuits from the city to limit its operations there after a series of accidents involving Cruise's vehicles.
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Jun 2024
$850m
LATE VC
Feb 2022
$1.3bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $9.1bn
Company benefits
- Medical / dental / vision, AD+D and life insurance
- Subsidized mental health benefits
- One Medical membership
- Flexible Spending Account
- Monthly wellness stipend
- 401(k) match
- Paid time off: vacation, sick, public health emergency, jury duty, bereavement and company holidays
- Paid parental, family care and medical leave
- Family care benefits: fertility benefits, Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (subsidized by Cruise)
- Non-remote employees: Pre-tax Commuter Benefit Plan, healthy meals and snacks
- CruiseFlex - a working policy for US-Based Cruisers that lets you and your manager find what working style is best for you, whether it’s primarily in-person, primarily at home or a combination of home and in-office time
Company values
- Stay safe
- Stay focused
- Own it
- Seek truth
- Work together
- Be humble
- Be a customer
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Founders
Craig Glidden
(CEO (Not Founder))Is also currently the Executive Vice President of General Motors in its Legal wing.
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