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San Francisco, California

Lead research efforts to solve critical issues in one of the key AV sub-areas, e.g. perception, prediction, or planning.Know the state-of-the-art in these areas and suggest innovative solutions to leaders across the organization.Implement research ideas, conduct experiments and summarize results and findings.Build collaborative relationships with stakeholder teams and oversee smooth tech transfers and eventual deployment on Cruise’s AVs.Follow and understand progress and trends from academia, and extend them to Cruise’s problems.Nurture junior members on the team. Help them grow within the organization.Lead efforts to publish at top-tier conferences and journals.Attract more top talents in the industry to join us.

New York

Influence stakeholders across functions to gain support for research-based, user-centric solutions.Drive project priorities in alignment with larger project goals, and coordinate allocation of resources within the project. Identify opportunities to expand responsibilities within and across a product.Lead ideas to improve products and services through research-driven insights and recommendations.Drive teams to define and evaluate product, service, and ecosystem impact.Lead vision and strategy discussions through research by analyzing, consolidating, or synthesizing what is known about user, product, service, or business needs.

Springfield, Va

Responsible for data collection and organization, data analysis, modeling and algorithm development and data visualization and reporting, and working with the team to provide solutions, requirements and support to a team of data scientists, engineers.