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Cruise is committed to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment, both in our workplace and in our products. 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, come join us. Even if you might not meet every requirement, we strongly encourage you to apply. You might just be the right candidate for us.

Cruise is looking for an AV Behavioral Diagnostics Engineer to help us analyze and understand our AVs behavioral performance release to release. In this position, you will identify trends, develop new or improved processes, and automate diagnosis for our key partners in Product Management, AV Engineering and Systems Engineering. If you're interested in improving our AV’s on-road performance through your detective work, let's talk!

What you’ll be doing:

• Maintain an understanding of the Autonomous Vehicle (AV) software stack by working with AV engineers/PMs to review upcoming feature design docs/pull request descriptions

• Apply in-house tools to triage and diagnose events occurring during on-road AV testing 

• Become a domain specialist and team representative for certain AV components, maintaining knowledge of component limitations, diagnostic techniques, performance expectations, etc.

• Assess and communicate AV behavior anomalies and risks supported by data driven analysis to leadership and key partners

• Collaborate with other engineering teams, to diagnose performance bottlenecks and design processes, workflows, and frameworks to improve diagnosis capabilities

• Work with our partners in systems engineering, systems test and simulation to correlate test suites with results from on-road analysis

• Conduct or provide detailed guidance to retrospectives and drive initiatives which lead to preventative actions 

What you must have:

• Shown experience at communicating data driven decisions to leadership

• Worked on a product that poses integration challenges by combining, HW, SW, embedded systems and operations

• Experience in mission or safety critical product development environments

• Consistent track record of root cause analysis in complex systems

• Strong experience with GitHub and Jira or equivalent tools

• Strong multi-functional communication and collaboration

• Ability to learn quickly, starting with little information and quickly becoming an expert in your domain

• BS or MS in Engineering or related field or equivalent combination education and experience

Bonus Points!

• Python, bash or scripting experience with exposure to C++

• Experience with robotics and CI automation

• Experience with developing data driven metrics

The salary range for this position is $115,600 - 170,000. 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:

• Competitive salary and benefits 
• 401(k) Cruise matching program 
• Medical / dental / vision, AD+D and Life
• One Medical membership
• Subsidized mental health benefits
• Flexible vacation and company paid holidays
• Healthy meals and snacks provided for non-remote employees
• Paid parental, jury duty, bereavement, family care, and medical leave
• Fertility Benefits
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, subsidized by Cruise
• Flexible Spending Account 
• Monthly wellness stipend
• Pre-tax Commuter Benefit Plan for non-remote employees
• CruiseFlex, a working policy for US-Based Cruisers, lets you and your manager find the working style that’s best for you, whether it’s primarily in-person, primarily at home, or a combination of home and in-office time. - learn more about CruiseFlex here