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Senior Staff TLM, Machine Learning Infrastructure

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.

About the role:

We are building the world's most advanced model training and evaluation platform which allows fast experimentation, productization and flexibility for innovation in modeling direction to drive the autonomous vehicle industry forward. At Cruise, we develop state of the art Deep learning models that push the boundaries of scaling and distributed machine learning.

Our models deal with high dimensional (lidar, 3d points) and temporal data (videos) and are on the critical path for AV success. As we scale our commercial fleet to more cities, we have a lot of innovation ahead of us to iterate on the models faster and reduce the cost of our infrastructure.

As Technical Lead Manager for Cruise's Training team, you will be at the heart of ML for the entire company. From computer vision to ranking models, Training platform powers more and more training workloads. As a senior leader, you will collaborate with machine learning engineers and engineering leaders from all of Cruise AI, building a platform that delights our internal customers while maintaining exceptional reliability and flexibility. While partnering closely with these teams, you will have the opportunity to build a reliable, cost efficient and highly scalable training framework that satisfies our training needs, allows faster experimentation and gives us flexibility for innovation in our model direction.

As a technical leader within Cruise, you will build strong, happy and engaged teams helping them to deliver their best work. You will also help each team member grow, coach them, and develop plans that support their career goals.

This is a unique opportunity to join a mission critical team at a pivotal moment!

What you'll be doing:

  • Responsible for growing and developing a small team of engineers
  • Building training platform on top of scalable compute systems
  • Understand business and company goals, develop vision and strategies to support these goals and customer needs
  • Partner with engineering and product leadership across Cruise AI to align Training product roadmap with short-term and long-term needs.
  • Own the innovation in the space of ML platforms, stay up-to-date with the latest developments, and deliver value to our customers
  • Influence key decisions on architecture and implementation of scalable, reliable, and cost-effective engineering solutions
  • Being the bar raiser, pushing the limit on how we built and operate our systems, how we set high standards for performance and how we support our engineers to deliver better experiences for our customers
  • Serve as an embodiment of our values, promote a culture of experimentation and innovation, and a high output team
  • Utilize a combination of open source and in house developed software to meet company goals
  • Set the technical direction for the team, and anticipate strategic and scaling-related challenges
  • Drive software engineering best practices both within your team, and create tooling which encourages these across the company
  • Hire capable and motivated teams that can deliver in agile fashion

What you must have:

  • 3+ years experience tech leading a team of engineers who support scalable production systems
  • 3+ years of experience with building and maintaining machine learning infrastructure
  • 5+ years of experience in software engineering roles
  • Experience in distributed training and distributed systems
  • Experience with cloud technologies such as Azure or GCP
  • Experience to drive customer adoption up and scale product
  • Strong execution and project management skills
  • Deep understanding of machine learning concepts
  • Ability to listen to customers, understand their needs proactively and establish a vision, define a roadmap, and deliver solutions
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to work closely with product and program management, data science, engineering, and operations.
  • Bachelor's degree in CS, or equivalent real world experience

Bonus points!

  • Previous technical background in Computer Vision Domain, or Computer Vision Infrastructure
  • Experience writing Go, or a desire to learn
  • Experience working with Docker and Kubernetes, especially for running GPU workloads
  • Experience writing modern production C++ and Python applications

Learn more about Life at Cruise through the lens of a Cruiser on our LinkedIn Page.

The salary range for this position is $241,700 - $355,400. 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
  • 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 - learn more about RLO here
  • 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 HR@getcruise.com.

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.

While our driverless cars help make streets safer, they also make people feel safer—safer to ride at any time, safer to ride to any neighborhood, safer to ride exactly as they are.

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