Senior Applied Scientist II, Autonomy Evaluation

Summary

Join Cruise as a Senior Engineer II, Autonomy Evaluation and drive impact-focused projects addressing challenges faced by autonomous vehicles (AVs) on urban roads. You will lead evaluation strategies, ensure comprehensive validation of AV performance, streamline testing processes, and mentor fellow data scientists. As an individual contributor, you will build data miners and metrics, analyze AV performance data, develop new methodologies, and collaborate with various teams. This role requires a Masters or PhD in a relevant field, 4+ years of post-academic experience, strong software engineering skills, proficiency in SQL and Python, and experience with machine learning models. Cruise offers competitive salary and benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, paid time off, parental leave, 401k matching, and more.

Requirements

• A Masters or PhD degree or equivalent experience in Robotics or other relevant industry experience
• 4+ years post-academic experience in evaluating large models, data science, machine learning, or a closely-related field
• Strong software engineering foundation and proficiency in production-environment coding and best practices
• Proficiency in SQL and Python
• Experience designing, training, and critically analyzing machine learning models for big data
• Solid statistical foundations, familiarity with hypothesis testing, statistical power, and common biases in data
• Experience designing, developing and maintaining automated reporting tools for management and other partners
• Creative, inventive, and passionate about seeking new solutions to problems and opportunities
• A track record of leading multi-functional initiatives and collaborating with engineering and product teams
• 2+ years of experience mentoring other data scientists or software engineers

Responsibilities

• Define success criteria from ambiguous problem statements
• Drive evaluation strategies and roadmaps, monitoring and analysis incorporating safety, roadcraft and compliance metrics for core autonomous capabilities
• Ensure comprehensive validation of AV performance with high fidelity signals
• Streamline testing and road monitoring process in collaboration with AV Engineers to build a fast feedback loop to AV model development
• Mentor fellow Data Scientists and foster a positive, collaborative work environment
• Role-model a positive, humble and growth-oriented attitude
• Build high quality data miners and metrics that serves testing, road monitoring, and model training
• Analyze AV performance data to extract insights and opportunities for optimization
• Develop new methodologies, e.g., machine learning based approaches, to scalably improve the quality of metrics
• Test and deploy and your methods in our simulation environment
• Collaborate with AV Software Engineers, Systems Engineers, Test Engineers along with Product Management and other stakeholders to build shareable tools, methods, and dashboards
• Convert insights into actionable recommendations for AV software development and launch readiness decisions, and succinctly communicate these findings to partners and leadership

Preferred Qualifications

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

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