Staff Software Engineer, Simulation Analytics

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. In our cars, you’re free to be yourself. It’s the same here at Cruise. We’re creating a culture that values the experiences and contributions of all of the unique individuals who collectively make up Cruise, so that every employee can do their best work. Cruise is committed to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment, both in our workplace and in our products. 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, come join us. Even if you might not meet every requirement, we strongly encourage you to apply. You might just be the right candidate for us.

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 Analytics 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 collaborating closely with external customers, translating the challenges faced by Simulation users, primarily AV developers, into a tangible roadmap for action. Moreover, you will take charge of partnering with senior engineers to ensure the efficient execution of necessary tasks to onboard customers successfully. You will also work towards enhancing overall productivity within the organization by building automation tools and shared libraries that will be leveraged across engineering teams.

Foremost, we are seeking 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. Your primary focus will revolve around the pivotal task of onboarding customers and ensuring they can utilize Sim successfully.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Extensive partnership with customers to identify and formalize the challenges they encounter during AV feature development.
• Building cross team engineering roadmaps that will allow us to solve customer’s problems effectively.
• Create tools/features/products that are required to onboard customers.
• Accelerate team’s effectiveness and efficiency by designing and implementing scalable automation tools for test creation, data collection and analysis, debugging, and performance monitoring.
• Design and implement extensible and well-tested shared libraries that will be used by many engineers across the organization.
• Work closely with autonomous vehicle engineering to enable rapid development and model feedback.
• 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 and C++ 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 or linear algebra.
• 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 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.
• 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, and Walmart 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. We offer a new kind of equity program called Recurring Liquidity Opportunity (RLO), which combines IPO-like liquidity with the stability of remaining private.
• We’re Safety Conscious: We integrate #staysafe, our top priority at Cruise, into our everyday work. Through our Safety Management System, every Cruiser is asked to do their part by reporting any potential issues or hazards they observe and making continuous improvements. You’ll be able to contribute to safety at Cruise, no matter your job function or title.

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, caste, ethnicity, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or parental status, or disability. Applicants will not be discriminated against based on these or other protected categories or social identities. Cruise will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, in accordance with applicable laws.

Cruise is committed to the full inclusion of all applicants. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process please let our recruiting team know or email

We proactively work to design hiring processes that promote equity and inclusion while mitigating bias. To help us track the effectiveness and inclusivity of our recruiting efforts, please consider answering the following demographic questions. Answering these questions is entirely voluntary. Your answers to these questions will not be shared with the hiring decision makers and will not impact the hiring decision in any way. Instead, Cruise will use this information not only to comply with any government reporting obligations but also to track our progress toward meeting our diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging objectives.

Candidates applying for roles that operate and remotely operate the AV: Licensed to drive a motor vehicle in the U.S. for the three years immediately preceding your application, currently holding an active in-state regular driver’s license or equivalent, and no more than one point on driving record. A successful completion of a background check, drug screen and DMV Motor Vehicle Record check is also required.

Note to Recruitment Agencies: Cruise does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Furthermore, Cruise does not pay placement fees for candidates submitted by any agency other than its approved partners.