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Lyft Engineering Manager, Autonomous Vehicles in San Francisco, California
At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. To do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization.
Lyft AV (https://investor.lyft.com/news-and-events/news/news-details/2024/Lyft-Announces-New-Round-of-Autonomous-Partnerships/default.aspx) brings the autonomous future to life by matching our community of riders with self-driving vehicles to meet their transportation needs today. The program is powered by a technical team innovating to build new features, experiment, and evolve approaches for emerging business needs. At the same time, we prioritize production quality because our customers put their trust in us for safety and reliability.
As Engineering Manager for Autonomous Vehicles, you’ll be responsible for setting the technical direction for the team, supporting the team to deliver on commitments to partners, making tradeoffs between technical investments and product work, and communicating the strategy transparently to the team and to leadership. You will help shape the product direction by developing a deep understanding of the customer and working closely with cross-functional partners from Product, Design, Science, and Operations. You will lead a group of talented engineers and help the team to deliver significant business impact while being open to change through constant experimentation in an ambiguous, emerging product. If you enjoy collaborating with technical and nontechnical partners in a fast-moving space with real-world impact, this is the role for you.
Responsibilities:
Lead a team of talented backend and mobile engineers who like to ship code and tackle hard engineering problems
Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of your team members. Help develop their careers, and assign them to projects tailored to their skill levels, personalities, work styles, and professional goals
Build teams that are collaborative, inclusive, and respectful of each other
Set the technical vision and strategy for an evolving product area
Co-own the product strategy with the product partner and ensure timely delivery with high quality of the engineering solutions
Create plans for prioritizing technical and resourcing challenges in your organization
Maintain a balance between building sustainable, high-impact projects and shipping things quickly
Instill a spirit of continuous improvement in the team’s code, architecture, and processes
Work closely with the Lyft recruiting team to hire high potential candidates from diverse backgrounds
Own your team’s deliverables and ensure we continue to ship scalable, highly-available products that delight our users
Experience:
You have a technical background and are able to contribute to planning and design discussions
You are steadfastly focused on your customers
You have experience leading a team of engineers and guiding them through their career development
You believe in building both teams and products that scale
You enjoy working in a collaborative environment, and you’re committed to driving projects to completion creatively
You can motivate and instill a strong sense of ownership in your team
You have experience guiding teams through planning, prioritization, and execution of work
You think ahead and build for the future
You are able to thrive in a heavily cross-functional environment and drive projects to completion regardless of the organizational structure
You work well with product partners and help set the product vision for an ambiguous project
Bonus: You have experience working in the AV industry or a similar space
Benefits:
Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options
Mental health benefits
Family building benefits
In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have unlimited paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off
401(k) plan to help save for your future
18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible
Pre-tax commuter benefits
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Lyft is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.
This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule — Team Members will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week on Mondays, Thursdays and a team-specific third day. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year. #Hybrid
The expected base pay range for this position in the San Francisco area is $172,000-$237,000 USD. Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location. Range is not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits. Your recruiter can share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors during the hiring process.