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Aurora’s mission is to deliver the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly to make transportation safer, increasingly accessible, and more reliable and efficient than ever before. The Aurora Driver will create a new era in mobility and logistics, one that will bring a safer, more efficient, and more accessible future to everyone.
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Aurora hires talented people with diverse backgrounds who are ready to help build a transportation ecosystem that will make our roads safer, get crucial goods where they need to go, and make mobility more efficient and accessible for all. We’re searching for a Senior Software Engineer to join Aurora’s Compute Workflows team.
The Compute Workflows team develops the frameworks and tooling on top of Aurora’s core compute and cloud services. We enable the creation, execution, management, monitoring, and support for Aurora’s critical and massive-scale compute and data pipelines backing the Aurora Driver, Aurora’s core self-driving software product. This includes things like developer code change testing and gating, Aurora Driver release pipelines, Autonomy behavior change testing, Machine Learning model training, and other key workflows that involve running millions of tasks, on hundreds of thousands of cores, and producing TBs of data every day. Hundreds of engineers rely on these systems every day to generate datasets, test their code, land changes and validate the performance of the Driver. We work closely with multiple, cross-functional teams like Simulation, Autonomy, Systems & Safety, and Technology Foundation teams like Data Platforms and Compute/MLOps to ensure we meet the needs of users and the organization in terms of reliability, performance, scale, and efficiency.
In this role, you will
- Design and develop large, distributed batch execution, data collection and processing services in the cloud
- Consult with teams across the Simulation, Autonomy, Systems Engineering, and Vehicle Platform groups to ensure their compute needs are being met and help guide strategic decisions on frameworks and technology to do so.
- Collaborate with teams across the Simulation, Autonomy, Systems Engineering, and Vehicle Platform groups to help them get the signal they need from offline testing to assess autonomy performance
- Propose new code designs and write technical design documents
- Lead key projects for the team
- Drive tactical and strategic technical decisions for the team
- Mentor junior team members and maintain engineering excellence
Required Qualifications
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field, or equivalent industry experience and 4+ years of experience as a software engineer.
- Experience with large scale distributed systems or microservice architectures
- Strong programming skills in modern languages like Golang, Python, C++, Java
- A passion for writing robust, intuitive, high-performance code
- Ability to navigate and work effectively in large codebases
- Strong software development background demonstrated by industry experience in production web, mobile, SaaS or cloud computing
Desirable Qualifications
- Experience in Big Data systems and/or relational databases
- Experience using and deploying AWS resources and services
- Performance optimization for large-scale systems for latency/throughput/cost efficiency
- Familiar with web application development
- Comfortable with Linux/other Unix environments
Pay Range
The base range for this position is $146,000 - $189,000. Aurora’s pay ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, the successful candidate’s starting base pay will be determined based on factors including job-related skills, experience, qualifications, relevant education or training, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future. The successful candidate will also be eligible for an annual bonus, equity compensation, and benefits.
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Aurora considers candidates without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy status, parent or caregiver status, ancestry, political affiliation, veteran and/or military status, physical or mental disability, or any other status protected by federal or state law. Aurora considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected].
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What We Do
Founded in 2017 by experts in the self-driving industry, Aurora is on a mission to deliver the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly. To move both people and goods, the company is building the Aurora Driver, a platform that brings together software, hardware and data services to autonomously operate passenger vehicles, light commercial vehicles, and heavy-duty trucks. Aurora is backed by Sequoia Capital, Baillie Gifford, funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, among others, and is partnered with industry leaders including Toyota, Uber, Volvo, and PACCAR. Aurora tests its vehicles in the Bay Area, Pittsburgh, and Dallas. The company has offices in those areas as well as in Bozeman, MT; Seattle, WA; Louisville, CO; and Wixom, MI. To learn more, visit aurora.tech.
Aurora is backed by Amazon and Sequoia, among others, and has partnerships with leading transportation companies including PACCAR, Uber, FCA, and Hyundai Group. It tests its vehicles in the Bay Area, Pittsburgh, and Dallas and has offices in those cities as well as in Bozeman, Seattle, Denver, and Detroit.
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