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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.

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.

This role drives the various robotics aspects of the perception software stack. The specific duties may include streamlining optimization, integration, creating ML infrastructure and tools, pipeline development, sensor data preprocessing, sensor hardware collaboration, introspection, productionalization, and designing for fast experimentation cycles.

What you’ll be doing:

• Collaborating with various specialists to get algorithms and ML models deployed and integrated into the perception stack, with an eye on optimization and simplification of these procedures.

• Working on runtime optimization and architecting highly performant perception pipelines.

• Working with hardware teams to guide compute requirements, sensor selection, and sensor suite architecture in support of the perception stack, both for current and future vehicle generations.

• Working on integration of the sensor data into the stack and craft a highly efficient data flow that feeds into a different stage of the real-time algorithms

• Spotting and collaboratively closing gaps in tooling and data introspection to accelerate engineer velocity within Perception.

What you must have:

• Expertise in the field of robotics or latency-sensitive backend services

• Strong programming skills in modern C++ or Python

• Strong understanding of runtime optimization and software development for runtime-critical systems on Linux

• Expertise with profiling CPU and/or GPU software, process scheduling, and prioritization.

• 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!

• Experience with ROS, OpenCV

• Experience with CUDA

• Experience with ML and ML frameworks such as Tensorflow or PyTorch

• Expertise working with various sensor technologies, including Lidar, Radar, and Camera

• Experience in deploying perception algorithms into real-world environments

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
• Flexible Spending Account 
• Monthly wellness stipend
• 401(k) match 
• Paid time off: vacation, sick, public health emergency, jury duty, bereavement and company holidays. 
• Paid parental, family care and medical leave
• Family care benefits: fertility benefits, Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (subsidized by Cruise).
• Non-remote employees: Pre-tax Commuter Benefit Plan, healthy meals and snacks 
• CruiseFlex - a working policy for US-Based Cruisers that lets you and your manager find what working style is best for you, whether it’s primarily in-person, primarily at home or a combination of home and in-office time.

• We’re Integrated
• Through our partnerships with General Motors and Honda, we are the only self-driving company with fully integrated manufacturing at scale.

• We’re Funded
• GM, Honda, Microsoft, T. Rowe Price & Walmart have invested billions in Cruise. Their backing for our technology demonstrates their confidence in our progress, team, and vi