GM Cruise snags Dropbox HR head to hire 1,000 engineers by the end of the year.

So GM cruise has revealed it plans to hire 1,000 engineers more in the next nine months. The company is looking to double it size as it in the process of deploying a robotaxi service by the end of the year. Arden Hoffman of Dropbox will also be leaving the file-sharing service to head up human resources at Cruise.

The GM subsidiary is expanding its office space in San Francisco to accommodate the growth, and the GM cruisd is gonna be keeping it HQ at 1201 Bryant Street in San Francisco and that not all, the company is said to take over DropboxDropbox headquarters at 333 Brannan Street some time this year, a move that will triple Cruise’s office space in San Francisco. In an email by a dropbox spokesperson it said “Arden has made a huge impact on Dropbox over the last four years.

She helped build and scale our team and culture to the over 2300 person company we are today, and we‘ll miss her leadership, determination, and sense of humor. While we’re sorry to see her go, we’re excited for her and wish her all the best in this new opportunity to grow the team at Cruise,”

The company is also reported to be in serious need of talented software engineers to handle it AI division, lately people with experience in software engineering have become a “hot cake” as AI and robotics companies seems to be on the rise.

There are currently more than 60 companies that have permits from the California Department of Motor Vehicles to test autonomous vehicles in the state. The competition has led to some insane and awesome compensations and other Goody packages going to people with the right talent to try and convince them.