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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.

The Behaviors Teams at Cruise are responsible for developing machine learning models to enable our AV to drive smoothly and safely around an urban environment. This includes working on a variety of really exciting problems such as:

1. Building a globally consistent prediction of what all different nearby agents (like other cars, buses, animals, pedestrians) are going to in the next few seconds
2. Generating safe, comfortable and feasible trajectories to navigate dynamic urban environments
3. Scoring and selecting the optimal trajectory, optimizing across many dimensions such as safety, comfort and customer experience.

The Behaviors teams work closely with our Perception partners to get data from a variety of sensors, with rich attributes, simulation data, high-fidelity maps, etc, all of which is necessary to build the above technologies. We also collaborate with Robotics and Controls partners to enable the car to follow the planned path accurately.

The Staff Machine Learning Engineer is a versatile role in Prediction that drives a wide spectrum of applied ML research and development to overcome challenges on urban roads.

What you’ll be doing:

• From a research perspective, exploring, prototyping, validating, and iterating new algorithms
• On the development side, driving efforts to optimize, supervise and refine on-road performance for models on the path to production
• Considered one of the technical leaders of the department who guides current and future technology choices
• Have a deep understanding of the business and operational impact for different technology tradeoffs, and able to balance effectively based on company’s need
• Enable others engineers on the team to be more effective through design and code that is easy to extend and contribute into
• Capable of influencing others and building consensus even over contentious technical debates

What you must have:

• BS, MS, or higher degree, in CS/CE/EE, or equivalent industry experience
• 8+ years of experience in machine learning and classification
• Extensive experience with ML frameworks such as Tensorflow, Caffe, and PyTorch
• Strong programming skills in Python or C++
• Excellent mathematical reasoning skills, especially with probability
• Passionate about self driving car technology and its impact on the world!
• Expertise in setting architectures that are scalable, efficient, fault-tolerant, and are easily extensible allowing for changes overtime without major disruptions.
• Ability to design across multiple systems. Ability to both investigate in sophisticated areas as well as a good breadth of understanding of systems outside of your domain.
• Ability to wear several hats shifting between coding, design, technical strategy, and mentorship combined with excellent judgment on when to switch contexts to meet the greatest need.

Bonus points!

• PhD in machine learning or computer science
• Experience with ROS, OpenCV, Gazebo, or PCL
• Experience with CUDA
• Track record in deploying prediction models into real world environments
• Experience with autonomous driving technologies

The salary range for this position is $234,700 - 345,000. 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