Senior Engineering Analyst, Cruise
Planning and Controls
$146.3-215k
Self-driving vehicles
Job no longer available
Self-driving vehicles
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$146.3-215k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a better world by deploying driverless cars at scale.
Role
Who you are
- BS, MS, or PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, or another related field
- 3+ years of experience working with planning and controls algorithms, engineering analysis, statistical analysis or other related disciplines
- Experience working with large datasets and processing pipelines in SQL, Python or C++
- Proven track record of implementing data-drive solutions for complex technical systems
- Ability to adapt to change and operate in a self-directed environment
- Ability to clearly define and motivate problems and solutions in technical writing
Desirable
- Experience as an engineering analyst or software engineering working on autonomous vehicle planning and controls
- Experience with robotics, autonomous vehicles, model predictive control algorithms or numerical methods
- Ability to identify and act on opportunities to improve processes and increase efficiency
- Experience with working on robotics platforms based on ROS
What the job involves
- Lead new strategies and methods to identify risk and impact of motion planning and controls features
- Champion metrics and observability in planning and control roadmaps
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to the team
- Develop processes and tools to enable collaborators to make better data-driven decisions
- Translate data and analysis into impactful recommendations
- Build and manage relationships with key partners across Cruise
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Insights
29% employee growth in 12 months
Company
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
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Jun 2024
$850m
LATE VC
Feb 2022
$1.3bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $9.1bn
Our take
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.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle