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This team is responsible for the Autonomous Vehicle Systems Engineering and acts as a technical liaison between Product, Program, Legal, Engineering, and Test. This group includes Systems Engineers that work across Cruise on end-to-end system design. They provide the specific analysis, tools, and translation of requirements into a form that is easily consumed by the engineers who design and build these systems.

What you'll be doing:

• Define a verification plan and test methods for a function or behavior of the AV software or ML stack using simulation testing for complex integrated systems.
• Develop and lead metrics definition to quantify safety and enterprise risk associated with on road AV behavior as well as new feature development.
• Communicate verification plans, safety analysis and lead trade off decisions for launch of features with leadership and stakeholders like software engineering, legal, product and other stakeholders.
• Perform analysis of Autonomous Vehicle data to characterize vehicle systems performance, validate systems engineering requirements, and influence development of systems engineering requirements
• Find opportunities to develop scalable methodologies, tools and solutions across multiple platforms and operational domains for validation techniques and metrics.

What you must have:

• Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, or PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Aerospace, Physics or similar field
• 10+ Years of experience leading and launching complex hardware/software project involving communicating data analysis, safety analysis and validation acceptance criteria
• Experience with driving simulation based verification and validation plans for SW systems, AI/ML systems with a follow up risk assessment on the acceptance criteria and performance
• Ability to develop metrics for safety analysis and verification of ML based software systems
• Strong written and verbal communication skills from presentations to senior leadership to make launch decisions
• Experience writing SQL and Python code to analyze large data sets
• Excellent critical and analytical thinking skills: you can interpret what the data is telling us, and which analyses will reveal impactful conclusions
• Fluent in data-based and analytical engineering problem solving practices, including using paretos, root cause analysis, and more.

 

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 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

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