Senior Software Engineer - Performance Engineering

Who We Are

Aurora (Nasdaq: AUR) is delivering the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly. Founded in 2017 by experts in the self-driving industry, Aurora is revolutionizing transportation – making it safer, increasingly accessible, and more reliable and efficient than ever before. Its flagship product, the Aurora Driver, is a platform that brings together software, hardware, and data services, to autonomously operate passenger vehicles, light commercial vehicles, and heavy-duty trucks. Aurora is partnered with industry leaders across the transportation ecosystem including Toyota, Volvo, PACCAR, Uber, Uber Freight, FedEx, and U.S. Xpress. Aurora tests its vehicles in the Bay Area, Pittsburgh, and Texas and has offices in those areas as well as in Bozeman, MT; Seattle, WA; Louisville, CO; and Detroit, MI. To learn more, visit www.aurora.tech.

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 Software Engineer for our Performance Engineering Optimization (PEO) team.

The PEO team aims to empower Aurorans to reduce onboard software latency & improve hardware utilization by:

• Building tooling & processes to ensure software performs as required.
• Provide for rapid robotic software performance experimentation through data-driven feedback loops.
• Building tooling to discover & diagnose software & hardware performance problems.
• Help autonomy engineers determine the cause and effect relationship between onboard events.

In this role, you will

• Create tooling to probe, collect & store monumental amounts of performance data both on-vehicle & in-simulation.
• Create tooling to ingest, process and efficiently visualize & compare said data.
• Create tooling that helps autonomy and ML engineers prioritize optimization efforts.
• Constantly collaborate with engineers in various domains within Aurora, including Autonomy, Sensing, Vehicle Platform Infrastructure etc.

Required Qualifications

• BS, MS or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science or a related field.
• Minimum 3-5 years of professional experience
• Strong C++ programming and software design skills
• Knowledge and interest in programming with Python and high level languages
• Knowledge and interest in cloud storage, cloud based data pipelines
• Comfortable using Linux as your primary developer environment
• Experience with modern DevOps practices

Desirable Qualifications

• Experience with x86 accelerators such as GPUs
• Experience in data science and data engineering on cloud platforms.
• Experience with frontend development technologies
  

Pay Range 

The base range for this position is $152,000 - $227,000.  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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Working at Aurora

At Aurora, we bring together people with extraordinary talent and experience united by the strength of our values. We operate with integrity, set outrageous goals, and continue to build a culture where we win together—all without any jerks.

We have offices in 8+ locations across the United States. We offer a competitive benefits package to qualifying employees. Our Career Page includes everything you need to know about working at Aurora.

At the core of everything we do is our commitment to safety. Building best-in-class self-driving technology will take time, and we believe that each employee at Aurora has a role in contributing to safety, every step of the way. Aurora expects commitment to our safety policies from every employee, and seeks candidates who take an active responsibility, can contribute to building an atmosphere of trust, and invest in the organization’s long-term success by prioritizing working safely, no matter what.

We believe that self-driving technology has broad benefits – including an increase in safety and access to transportation – and to