Scale announced that Richard Ni has joined the company as Head of People. Ni was previously at Cruise, where he was Head of Recruiting for the autonomous car company acquired by General Motors in 2016. The tenth employee at Cruise, Ni helped build up headcount to 700 over just three years – with a particular emphasis on recruiting software and machine learning engineers to pace the company’s rapid growth. Ni was also the first technical product manager at Cruise following the GM acquisition, working with the company’s Localization, Mapping, LIDAR Segmentation, and Computer Vision teams. Educated at M.I.T. with degrees in computer science and philosophy, Ni also has software development experience at Venmo, the mobile payment service.