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Senior Software Engineer II, Calibration & Mapping

San Francisco, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 18 Mar 2024

💰 $210,000/yr($178,500/yr – $210,000/yr)

About the role

We're Cruise, a self-driving service designed for the cities we love.

We’re building the world’s most advanced self-driving vehicles to safely connect people to the places, things, and experiences they care about. We believe self-driving vehicles will help save lives, reshape cities, give back time in transit, and restore freedom of movement for many.

In our cars, you’re free to be yourself. It’s the same here at Cruise. We’re creating a culture that values the experiences and contributions of all of the unique individuals who collectively make up Cruise, so that every employee can do their best work.

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.

We are actively seeking a Senior Engineer to join our LLCM team. In this role, you'll play a key role in developing and maintaining innovative mapping and calibration solutions. You'll be responsible for designing, implementing and testing algorithms and systems that power our AV, ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and scalability. We seek passionate, highly skilled individuals who can work across our cloud and AV stack to deliver rich solutions that ensure our vehicles can accurately locate themselves, understand their surroundings, and navigate safely.

Day-to-day Responsibilities

Design and develop complex, highly scalable, and latency-optimized software in C++
Invent, extend, design and develop next-generation features for self-driving car applications
Design and implement backend applications and pipelines that can generate and validate map features, deploy maps to the AV and manage map changes in the real-world.
Develop and support software stacks that perform the calibration and monitoring of the visual and range sensors on autonomous vehicles, and drive the automation of the testing framework.
Improve and deliver reliable software through continuous integration, automated testing and code reviews
Work closely with vehicle engineering to enable real-time vehicle communication and feedback
Develop APIs for client services and vehicle communication
Communicate across functions and groups including Product, Design, and end users.
Be a role model and mentor for others in technical matters

Skills/Qualifications (must-have)

5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer writing production quality code in C++
Experience building microservice-based backend systems with SQL or NoSQL databases
BS, MS or PhD in CS, Math, Physics, or equivalent real-world experience
Experience on development and testing of numerical linear algebra, and optimization software
Experience with Geometric Computer Vision, and Image Processing algorithms and software
Experience fixing, diagnosing, testing and resolving issues in production environments
Strong organizational and communication skills

Skills/Qualifications (nice-to-have/bonus)

Experience in the AV industry, particularly in Mapping & Localization, and/or Calibration
Experience in complex AV SW stack testing and release automation
Experience with Linux
Experience with ROS
Experience with Python
Experience with OpenCV, and Eigen
Experience using Node.js or using typescript or javascript
Experience with with queuing and event streaming solutions such as GCP pub/sub or similar
Experience with kubernetes, docker or packaging applications for cloud deployment.

The salary range for this position is $178,500 - $210,000. Compensation will vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. You may also be offered a bonus, long-term incentives, and benefits. These ranges are subject to change.