Join Cruise: Revolutionizing Urban Transportation with Self-Driving Technology

At Cruise, we're dedicated to building the world's most advanced self-driving vehicles, connecting people to places, experiences, and things they care about safely and efficiently. Our mission is to save lives, reshape cities, give back time in transit, and restore freedom of movement.

In our self-driving cars, you're free to be yourself. The same goes for our workplace. We're cultivating a culture that values diverse experiences and contributions, so every employee can do their best work.

Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Cruise is committed to creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment. We encourage you to apply, even if you may not meet every requirement. You could be the perfect fit for our team.

Staff Applied Scientist, Autonomy Evaluation

As a Staff Applied Scientist in Autonomy Evaluation, you'll develop the world's most advanced AV driving capabilities and maintain superhuman performance levels by creating quality metrics and actionable insights throughout the development lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership

• Define success criteria from ambiguous problem statements.
• Drive evaluation strategies and roadmaps.
• Monitor and analyze safety, roadcraft, and compliance metrics for core autonomous capabilities.
• Ensure comprehensive AV performance validation with high-fidelity signals.
• Streamline testing and road monitoring processes.
• Mentor fellow Data Scientists and foster a collaborative work environment.

Individual Contribution

• Build high-quality data miners and metrics for testing, road monitoring, and model training.
• Analyze AV performance data for optimization opportunities.
• Develop new methodologies to improve metric quality scalably.
• Test and deploy methods in our simulation environment.
• Collaborate with various engineers and stakeholders to build shareable tools and dashboards.
• Convert insights into actionable recommendations for AV software development.

Qualifications

• Masters or PhD in Robotics, Transportation, Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, or relevant experience.
• 5+ years post-academic experience in evaluating large models, data science, or machine learning.
• Strong foundation in software engineering and production-environment coding.
• Proficiency in SQL and Python.
• Experience designing and critically analyzing machine learning models for big data.
• Solid statistical foundations.
• Experience with automated reporting tools.
• Creative, inventive, and passionate about solving new problems.
• Track record of leading multi-functional initiatives and collaborating with engineering and product teams.
• 3+ years of experience mentoring other data scientists.

Bonus Points!

• Experience in the autonomous driving industry.
• Experience in C++.

Why Join Cruise?

The salary range for this position is $183,600 - $270,000, depending on location, knowledge, skills, and experience. Additional benefits include bonuses, long-term incentives, and comprehensive support for your well-being.

Our Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits
• Medical, dental, vision, Life and AD&D
• Subsidized mental health benefits
• Paid time off and holidays
• Paid parental, medical, family care, and military leave
• 401(k) Cruise matching program
• Fertility benefits
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
• Flexible Spending Account & Health Savings Account
• Perks Wallet program for benefits/perks
• Pre-tax commuter benefit plan
• CruiseFlex, our location-flexible work policy

Integrated and Funded

Through partnerships with General Motors and Honda, Cruise stands as the only self-driving company with fully integrated manufacturing at scale. With significant investments from GM, Honda, Microsoft, T. Rowe Price, and Walmart, Cruise is leading the industry in