Senior Technical Program Manager, Simulation
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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.
Cruisers have the opportunity to grow and develop while learning from leaders at the forefront of their fields. With a culture of internal mobility, there's an opportunity to thrive in a variety of disciplines. This is a place for dreamers and doers to succeed.
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, join us.
What you’ll be doing:Planning
- Identify vital cross-team programs and define program scope, resource requirements and program goals
- Partner with Technical Product Managers to turn requirements and technical specs into achievable roadmaps, including planning timelines and landmarks and identifying cross-team dependencies
- Balance short-term agile planning and process with long-term planning and risk management
- Work with Technical Leads on design decisions, and participate in department design reviews to ensure we continue to raise our technical standards
- Ensure teams take on a balanced assignment of critical new initiatives, iterative improvements, and engineering excellence investments.
- Lead the technical specification portion of product documentation, and coordinate the design review process
- Identify, evaluate and create plans to mitigate program risks
- Run relevant meetings (planning, design, etc.) alongside Engineering Managers and Technical Leads
Execution
- Work closely with our partner teams in AI, Robotics, Product, and Infrastructure to deliver key simulation functionality for testing and development of Autonomous Vehicles
- Coordinate with Product Managers and Engineering Managers to ensure acceptance criteria have been met, and that projects/landmarks are completed and delivered on schedule
- Lead and improve cross-functional execution processes, ensuring effective communication and execution at all levels
- Promote effective communication, provide effective status reports and partner communications, bring up and resolve issues, and celebrate wins!
- Maintain intimate knowledge of systems, and identify unnecessary complexity or unmet dependencies
- Track and report on project progress to all partners, proactively drive corrective actions as needed
- Build trusted relationships with team members and all relevant stakeholders
What you must have:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in CS, Math, EE, or related engineering/science field, or equivalent experience
- 8+ years of technical industry experience managing complex safety-critical initiatives in a fast-paced tech company and/or highly regulated industry
- Experience running programs spanning multiple teams and organizations, often with conflicting priorities and schedules
- Engineering experience on a simulation platform or product, or in a related industry
- Motivation to manage your programs, proactively identify and act on opportunities, and constantly improve both yourself and the organization.
- Ability to build consensus across different functions (HW, System, Test, SW), influence without authority, and drive teams to maximize performance
- Strong technical and nontechnical communication, both written and verbal.
- Ability to understand complex technical systems
Bonus Points!
- Experience with simulation, game development or autonomous vehicles
- Experience with large real-time and/or high-availability systems
- Experience developing complex simulated testing environments
- Significant Agile experience
- 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
- One Medical membership
- Flexible vacation and company paid holidays
- Healthy meals and snacks provided for non-remote employees
- Paid parental leave
- Fertility Benefits
- Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, subsidized by Cruise
- Flexible Spending Account
- Monthly wellness stipend
- Pre-tax Commuter Benefit Plan for non-remote employees
- 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, SoftBank, & T. Rowe Price, 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.
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.
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