Staff Engineer, Safety Management System Job at Cruise

Cruise San Francisco, CA

$156,400 - $230,000 a year

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.

In our cars, you're free to be yourself. It's the same here at Cruise. We're creating a culture that values the experiences and contributions of all of the unique individuals who collectively make up Cruise, so that every employee can do their best work.

Cruise is committed to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment, both in our workplace and in our products. 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, come join us. Even if you might not meet every requirement, we strongly encourage you to apply. You might just be the right candidate for us.

The Staff Engineer, SMS architects and builds tools, methodologies, reports, metrics, and data insights to advance our safety risk and assurance processes. You bring value to the team by developing novel processes that integrate seamlessly and efficiently with engineering and operations as well as creating data insights to add transparency for safety risk and influence management decision making.

Day-to-day responsibilities include:

  • Implement scalable end to end SMS tooling to establish governance across multiple safety programs including risk assessment, change management, and risk assurance.

  • Collaborate with multifunctional stakeholders for the improvement of tools and processes to support SMS execution.

  • Establish automated quality control processes and metrics that support oversight of products resulting from SMS processes.

  • Partner with multi-functional teams to assure proper SMS data quality and linkage is in place to ensure the integrity of our safety information and efficiency of our risk monitoring

  • Lead projects by establishing strong relationships across all of Cruise

  • Generate data-driven analysis and actionable insights to influence decision making, project prioritization and improve the quality of new methodologies and processes.

You should apply for this role if you have the following qualifications:

  • 5+ years of proven experience doing system and process design in a sophisticated product development environment

  • Very comfortable operating in an ambiguous and dynamic startup environment with an evolving project scope.

  • Strong at communicating data-driven decisions to executive audiences

  • Passion for process development and optimization

  • Ability to balance strategies using automation, process, tooling, and people as solutions

  • Skilled with Looker or similar data visualization tools and querying databases like Big Query

  • Ability to learn quickly, starting with little information and quickly becoming a specialist in your domain

  • BS or MS in Engineering or related field or equivalent combination education and experience

  • Tenacity to lead complex fast-paced initiatives impacting multiple teams and organizations, often with conflicting priorities and schedules

  • Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills; ability to collaborate with various and diverse set of groups and individuals

Bonus points!

  • Experience working with safety management systems and the systems engineering V-development cycle

  • Experience building or innovating change control processes

  • Advanced degree in related fields.

  • Experience in rideshare, mobility, fleet management, autonomous systems, or tech

The salary range for this position is $156,400 - 230,000. Compensation will vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. You may also be offered a bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits. These ranges are subject to change.

Why Cruise?

  • 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
    • Subsidized mental health benefits
    • Flexible vacation and company paid holidays
    • Healthy meals and snacks provided for non-remote employees
    • Paid parental, jury duty, bereavement, family care, and medical 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
    • CruiseFlex, a working policy for US-Based Cruisers, lets you and your manager find the working style that's best for you, whether it's primarily in-person, primarily at home, or a combination of home and in-office time. - learn more about CruiseFlex here
  • 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, T. Rowe Price, and Walmart 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. We offer a new kind of equity program called Recurring Liquidity Opportunity (RLO), which combines IPO-like liquidity with the stability of remaining private - learn more about RLO here
  • We're Safety Conscious

    • We integrate #staysafe, our top priority at Cruise, into our everyday work. Through our Safety Management System, every Cruiser is asked to do their part by reporting any potential issues or hazards they observe and making continuous improvements. You'll be able to contribute to safety at Cruise, no matter your job function or title.

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, caste, 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 HR@getcruise.com.

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.

Candidates applying for roles that operate and remotely operate the AV: Licensed to drive a motor vehicle in the U.S. for the three years immediately preceding your application, currently holding an active in-state regular driver's license or equivalent, and no more than one point on driving record. A successful completion of a background check, drug screen and DMV Motor Vehicle Record check is also required.

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.




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