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The Simulation group delivers products that accelerate our autonomous vehicle development, testing, and deployment through specialized frameworks and tools. As a Staff Software Engineer on the Simulation Fidelity team, you will lead complex efforts aimed at identifying and addressing gaps within our simulation frameworks. These improvements are essential in facilitating our customers' ability to innovate and develop new AV features.

Your responsibilities will extend to building tools to evaluate and report on the fidelity of Cruise’s Simulation frameworks. You will be responsible for ensuring the full lifecycle of investigating and understanding our platforms: determining appropriate metrics and methodologies, building data pipelines to measure the accuracy and precision of different simulation frameworks, tracking the evolution of the AVs performance within Simulation, and deploying tools for clear and accurate reporting to stakeholders and customers.

This role requires an individual contributor with an entrepreneurial mindset and a willingness to take on a multifaceted role, embracing diverse responsibilities such as project management, product management, technical documentation writing, and more. 

What you’ll be doing:

• Coordinate with stakeholders to define metrics which measure key performance indicators for simulation frameworks

• Lead the definition and implementation of pipelines and tools which measure and continuously monitor metrics which evaluate simulated behaviors against real world observation data

• Work closely with partner teams to enable rapid development and feedback, providing incremental value

• Communicate progress and results clearly and concisely with leadership

• Guide the organization in the identification and resolution of targeted areas for improvement

• Maintain a high technical standard for code quality on the team, through architectural design and code reviews

What you must have:

• Experience developing scalable software solutions that will be used across engineering teams.

• 6+ years of experience writing Python in a production environment (unit testing, code review, algorithm performance and tradeoffs, etc.)

• Experience developing automation scripts (Python and Bash scripts)

• Excellent communication skills

• BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Aerospace Engineering

Bonus points!

• Experience with computational geometry, linear algebra, or Machine Learning

• Experience with time-series data analysis and online performance monitoring tools

• Familiarity with ROS, numpy & scipy, Python bindings for C++, and plotting/visualization libraries

The salary range for this position is $161,500 - $237,500. 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
• Subsidized mental health benefits
• Flexible vacation and company paid holidays
• Healthy meals and snacks available for non-remote employees
• Paid parental, jury duty, bereavement, family care, and medical leave
• Fertility Benefits
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
• Flexible Spending Account 
• Pre-tax Commuter Benefit Plan for non-remote employees
• CruiseFlex, a working policy for US-Based Cr