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Staff Software Technical Lead Manager, Simulation

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About the Role

As a Staff Software Technical Lead Manager (TLM) on the Simulation team at Cruise, you will lead a team of high-caliber software engineers driving development and integration of our automated simulation test pipelines. These pipelines will automatically gather road data, create new tests, validate existing tests, and actively power rapid developer iteration for model training and performance evaluation. You will own a rapidly scaling user-facing test product designed to enhance engineering development speed across the entirety of Cruise.

What You'll Be Doing

  • Lead a team of exceptional software engineers, sculpting automated test tools and pipelines for simulation test creation, maintenance, and execution.
  • Drive and influence strategic decisions on simulation tooling architecture, implementation, and delivery of large-scale software solutions for testing and performance evaluation of autonomous vehicle software stack.
  • Steer product vision and execution of user-efficient tools from ideation to production for multiple simulation authorship and management workflows.
  • Develop and oversee top-tier software engineers within a dynamic, fast-paced, and inclusive setting.
  • Partner with engineering and product leadership across simulation and cross-functional teams on intricate simulation test challenges and roadmaps for immediate and future needs.

What You Must Have

  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, or equivalent experience.
  • Equivalent experience includes technical leadership in a complex space, driving technical design and execution cross-collaboratively across multiple teams and organizations.
  • 8+ years relevant industry experience, including 3+ years of experience leading and managing high-caliber software engineers.
  • Strong programming skills in Python.
  • Experience building developer productivity tools that scale effectively with a high degree of product excellence.

Bonus Points!

  • Experience with C++
  • Experience with SQL programming
  • Experience with driving customer adoption up and scale product
  • Familiarity with dashboarding systems for displaying and exploring metrics over time (i.e. Looker, Tableau, Kibana)
  • Experience with verification and validation of complex and/or safety critical systems

Why Cruise?

Join us at Cruise to contribute to the revolutionary work of self-driving vehicles, which promises to save lives, reshape cities, and restore freedom of movement. Our benefits support the whole you, from competitive salaries and comprehensive health benefits to flexible work policies.

Benefits
Extracted with AI

  • Competitive salary and benefits
  • Medical / dental / vision, Life and AD&D
  • Subsidized mental health benefits
  • Paid time off and holidays
  • Paid parental, medical, family care, and military leave of absence
  • 401(k) Cruise matching program
  • Fertility benefits
  • Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
  • Flexible Spending Account & Health Saving Account
  • Perks Wallet program for benefits/perks
  • Pre-tax Commuter benefit plan for local employees
  • CruiseFlex, location-flexible work policy

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