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.

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.

The Infrastructure Engineering team’s vision is to deliver a best-in-class infrastructure platform that equips Cruise to develop, deploy and operate autonomous vehicles at scale. The team’s mission is to create an efficient, reliable and scalable foundation to accelerate the development and operation of autonomous technology. Infrastructure Engineering at Cruise comprises several teams:

• Developer Productivity team provides Cruise developers with tools to manage source control, continuous integration & deployment, testing, and more.

• Infrastructure Platform team provides Cloud and On-Premises platform infrastructure, Simulation infrastructure, foundational services (e.g., DNS, DHCP), production networks, physical infrastructure deployment, and more.

• Site Reliability (SRE) team provides service owners with best practices for maturing their service operations, incident response process & tooling, resiliency engineering, internal advising, and more.

TPM Planning

• Drive the formulation and review of team objectives and key results for quarterly and annual planning cycles.

• Develop and review detailed program plans, and also be adept at balancing them against short-term agile needs and risk management.

• Develop knowledge of technical systems to understand and handle dependencies between teams and systems.

TPM Execution

• Ensure smooth execution of programs, and improve execution and reporting processes over time.

• Understand the bigger picture and apply your technical expertise and organizational problem solving skills to prioritize and navigate blocking issues.

• Deliver high quality communications to efficiently summarize, resolve, raise issues, and celebrate wins.

• Build strong working relationships with partner teams to facilitate collaboration.

• Apply critical thinking to scope and lead ambitious programs.

TPM Delivery

• Partner with Product Managers and Engineering Managers to ensure that acceptance criteria have been met, and that projects are completed and delivered on schedule.

• Validate non-functional requirements such as latency, performance, scalability, and resource cost.

Day-to-day TPM responsibilities :

• Drive multiple cross-org engineering programs

• Partner closely with engineering and product teams

• Communicate with stakeholders

• Refine processes & tools used by your team and others

You may be a good fit if you have:

• 6+ years of TPM experience in fast-paced technology company

• Ability and interest in operating in environments that have some ambiguity

• Experience and ability to influence without authority across engineering teams

• Experience leading critical engineering initiatives that span multiple teams, which often have conflicting priorities and schedules

• Excellent program management skills and experience

• Excellent verbal and written communications

• Excellent inter-personal skills

• University degree in Computer Science, or 2+ years of experience in software development or QA or infrastructure

• Familiarity with project management tools for ticketing, planning, drawing, presentations

• An analytical and curious nature

• An interest in solving problems collaboratively

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