Job Description

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.

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.

The team is responsible for the in-house built Hydra workload scheduler, which is the platform for Cruise’s simulations, our build and test pipelines, and other transient workloads. It represents a large portion of Cruise’s compute consumption costs.

We are looking for a Software engineer intern to join the team to help scale our platforms, improve user experience, create automation and self-service tools for our users, and help us run our workloads efficiently at scale. In this position, you will work closely with AV engineers, simulation developers, infrastructure teams, product managers, program managers

What you’ll be doing:

• Designing and developing systems to make it easy for hundreds of engineers to execute a large number of simulations, remote build, and other specialty workloads.
• Automating, monitoring, and optimizing our systems to scale optimally and efficiently.
• Communicating and building consensus with internal partners to understand what to build (and what not to build)

What you must have:

• Able to write code in at least one language such as Go, Python, Java, C++, or Rust
• Understanding of software development practices such as microservice architecture, API development, and CI/CD
• Excellent technical interpersonal skills
• Knowledge of Linux and networking fundamentals

Bonus Points!

• Understanding of a cloud platform such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Knowledge of container and container orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud-Foundry, Mesos, etc.

Why Cruise?

• Intern program elements:
  • Ownership of impactful project work
  • Mentorship and training
  • Networking events
• Intern perks:
  • Competitive compensation
  • Company paid holidays
  • Healthy meals and snacks provided 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, and 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.

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, 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 [email protected].

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.

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.