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Cruise is looking for a Senior Vehicle Bring Up Engineer to enable us to prepare vehicle for driverless operation in multiple markets together with our partners

In this position, you will lead issue triaging, root causing, and resolution for any inefficiencies in the vehicle bring up process including SW and FW flashes, as well as build quality issues

If you're interested in accelerating our fleet scaling and solving challenging problems, let's chat!

What you’ll be doing:

• Investigate and resolve a wide variety of hardware, software, operational, and system-level issues, both vehicle-specific and fleet-wide that arise in the bring up process

• Conduct root cause analyses across sophisticated issues affecting hardware, software, integration, and the vehicle system

• Develop processes and training for Bring Up Technicians to tackle lower-level troubleshooting and repairs

• Establish data pipelines and goals to effectively raise issues and understand trends for failures in the Bring Up process

• Work cross-functionally to develop processes and drive execution to contain identified issues upstream with suppliers or in production

• Travel onsite at least 50% to partner facility (Livonia, MI)

What you must have:

• BS or MS degree in Electrical, Automotive, Industrial, Robotics, Semiconductors, Telecommunications or similar Engineering field

• 5+ years work experience on a system level across firmware on electromechanical modules and compute systems

• Experienced in interfaces between the vehicle platform, actuators, vehicle software and communication network

• Capability to adapt, operate, and act decisively in an ambiguous environment

• Ability to articulate technical issues and solutions to all levels of the business, within and beyond the engineering communities

• Passionate about self-driving technology and its potential impact on the world

Bonus points!

• Experience working with 24x7 operation of a fleet

• Automotive and/or AV industry experience with sensors, compute, electrical, CAN, and base vehicle systems

• Programming skills for purposes of automated testing and data processing (e.g., scripting, SQL)

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

• We’re Integrated

• Through our partnerships with General Motors and Hon