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Cruisers have the opportunity to grow and develop while learning from leaders at the forefront of their fields. With a culture of internal mobility, there's an opportunity to thrive in a variety of disciplines. This is a place for dreamers and doers to succeed.

If you are looking to play a part in making a positive impact in the world by advancing the revolutionary work of self-driving cars, join us.

Owning the higher level of systems engineering, this team is responsible for establishing effective and constructive bridges between the Cruise top level stakeholders. As a staff engineer in the fault management team, you will be working on requirements development, validation, and verification efforts. You will also share in the team’s impact on all aspects of systems engineering. You will collaborate closely with Product Managers, Program Managers, Hardware and Software Engineers, and Systems Engineers to drive success toward the major initiatives at Cruise.

What you’ll be doing:

• Create a strategy for fault management architecture, including design principles and requirements.

• Define redundancy architecture for autonomous vehicle systems.

• Plan and implement integrated system Fault Management and Autonomy Verification and Validation programs.

• Lead trade off and architecture discussions at all levels of requirements management

• Translate the product vision into a set of high level requirements inclusive of the Operational Design Domain (ODD), functions, performance requirements, and features

• Perform analysis to derive technical program requirements to meet business objectives

• Develop incremental system capabilities towards program milestones

• Contribute to reviews to communicate major results and decisions: design reviews, verification strategy, launch readiness reviews

What you must have:

• BS, MS, or PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, or another related field

• 7+ years of postgraduate experience in systems engineering, robotics, or other related fields

• Demonstrated experience with fault-tolerance strategies and architectures for safety and mission-critical systems

• Knowledge of requirements management tools (e.g. Jama, DNG, DOORS)

• Ability to understand complex technical systems

• Ability to adapt and operate under ambiguity

• Prioritize while maintaining the tasks at hand

• Strong technical and nontechnical communication skills across a diverse set of stakeholders

• Ability to identify and act on opportunities to improve processes and increase efficiency

Bonus Points!

• Proven track record of successful systems engineering for a safety-critical product

• Experience with autonomous vehicles

• Experience building and scaling systems engineering processes and tools across multiple programs

The salary range for this position is $170,000 - 250,000. Compensation will vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. You may also be offered a bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits. These ranges are subject to change.

Why Cruise?

• Our benefits are here to support the whole you:
• 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.

• We’re Integrated
• Through our partnerships with General Motors and Honda, we are the only self-driving company with fully integrated manufacturing at scale.