Technical Lead Manager (TLM), ML in Planning

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.

Maneuvers Teams at Cruise build the core decision making technologies that drive Cruise’s fleet of autonomous vehicles (AV).

Our algorithms enable the AV to drive safely and comfortably, decide when we should make a lane change, and know which gap to take in an unprotected left.

Together with your team, you will develop novel solutions to the planning problem, beyond the state-of-the-art in literature.

You will work closely with Perception, Prediction, and other Robotics teams to integrate your features to the road to maximize impact.

The Tech Lead Manager (TLM) will grow a team of engineers while also collaborating with other Tech Leads, Engineering Managers, and TLM’s on the technical roadmap for Maneuvers.

Your team will deliver new technologies to the road in a fast-paced research-to-production environment.

What you’ll be doing:

• Act as both a technical leader and manager for a small team of forward-thinking engineers working on problems at the intersection of machine learning (ML) and planning
• Act as technical architect for your team, help define technical vision and strategy, and ensure the technical direction of your team aligns with other teams across the company
• Design costs and cost formulations using data-driven techniques to deliver a better ride experience
• Train and deploy ML models that improve AV behavior and scale to multiple fleets, vehicle platforms, and cities.
• Lead and grow a team of engineers within Planning and Control
• Ensure high-functioning, high-output team delivers quality engineering architecture and design along with fast, reliable, testable production code.
• Conduct performance evaluations, identify top performers, and support their growth into Engineering Management or Technical Leadership roles
• Help define, build, and embody Cruise engineering culture and principles

What you must have:

• Experience as an engineering Manager or Tech Lead providing day-to-day guidance to software engineers
• Proven track record of shipping production-quality software for mission-critical or complex software products
• Experience as a software engineer using ML techniques within robotics or safety-critical projects
• Experience with the ML model lifecycle management (labeling, training, productionization, and maintenance)
• Experience using standard methodologies for designing ML models for performant inference
• Experience managing projects across multiple teams
• Experience managing, mentoring, and coaching engineers
• Self motivation and passion to lead your teams, encourage standard methodologies, and constantly improve
• Ability to clearly define and motivate problems and solutions in technical writing.

Bonus points!

• Experience with CUDA/GPU programming.
• Experience developing custom ops for performant ML inference models.
• Experience with robot planning systems.
• Experience with multi-task learning.

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
  • Flexible vacation and company paid holidays
  • Healthy meals and snacks provided for non-remote employees
  • Paid parental 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

• 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, SoftBank, & T.

    Rowe Price, have invested billions in Cruise.

    Their backing for our technology demonstrates their confidence in our progress, team, and vision and makes us one of the leading autonomous vehicle organizations in the industry.

    Our deep resources greatly accelerate our operating speed.

• We’re Independent
  • We have our own governance, board of directors, equity, and investors.

    Our independence allows us to not just work on the edge of technology, but also define it.

• We’re Vested
  • You won’t just own your work here, you’ll have the potential to own equity in Cruise, too.

    We are competing in a market that is projected to grow exponentially, which gives our company valuation room to grow.

Cruise LLC is an equal opportunity employer.

We strive to create a supportive and inclusive workplace where contributions are valued and celebrated, and our employees thrive by being themselves and are inspired to do the best work of their lives. 

We seek applicants of all backgrounds and identities, across race, color, ethnicity, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or parental status, or disability.

Cruise is committed to the full inclusion of all applicants.

We proactively work to design hiring processes that promote equity and inclusion while mitigating bias.

Vaccine Mandate. 

At Cruise, we’re tasked with leading in the communities we serve — and doing our part to help keep our communities and our teams safe.

Our #StaySafe culture transcends and informs all we do, and because of this, as of October 31, 2021 Cruise will be mandating COVID-19 vaccinations for all US-based Cruisers who need or want to access any of our US Cruise facilities and engage in any business travel — including attending any in-person Company-sponsored event. 

If you are unable to get a vaccine due to a medical condition, disability, or a strongly-held religious belief, Cruise will consider requests for an accommodation.

Note to Recruitment Agencies: Cruise does not accept unsolicited agency resumes.