Senior Software Engineer, Simulation

Gm Cruise • San Francisco, CA

427d • $122,400 - $180,000

About The Position

As a Software Engineer on the Simulation team at Cruise, you will play a crucial role in advancing the development and testing of autonomous vehicles through automated simulation test pipelines. Your work will focus on creating tools and frameworks that enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of simulation processes, ultimately contributing to the safety and performance of self-driving technology.

Requirements

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years relevant industry experience.
• Strong programming skills in Python.
• Passion for building tools, frameworks, and libraries that simplify complex workflows.
• Proven track record of effective collaboration with customers and continuous delivery of quality results.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with C++
• Experience with SQL programming
• Experience with BigQuery, GCP
• Experience with verification and validation of complex and/or safety critical systems within robotics, autonomous driving or related field.

Responsibilities

• Build automated tools and pipelines for simulation test creation, maintenance, and execution to accelerate training of ML models and end-to-end performance evaluation.
• Develop and integrate test productivity and debugging scripts to enable efficient customer workflows.
• Design and implement engineering solutions to tackle complex simulation testing problems, focused towards performance and scale.
• Collaborate across teams, with AV Engineers, Product Managers, Product Operations, Systems Engineers, and Simulation to enhance the user experience of simulation tools and improve the development speed of Cruise engineers and Offshore teams.

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 of absence
• 401(k) Cruise matching program
• Fertility benefits
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
• Flexible Spending Account & Health Saving Account
• Perks Wallet program for benefits/perks
• Pre-tax Commuter benefit plan for local employees
• CruiseFlex, our location-flexible work policy.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Transportation Equipment Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree