Full Stack Engineer, Perception: Performance & Coverage

Who We Are

Aurora (Nasdaq: AUR) is delivering 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 is a self-driving system designed to operate multiple vehicle types, from freight-hauling semi-trucks to ride-hailing passenger vehicles, and underpins Aurora Horizon and Aurora Connect, its driver-as-a-service products for trucking and ride-hailing. Aurora is working with industry leaders across the transportation ecosystem, including Toyota, FedEx, Volvo Trucks, PACCAR, Uber, Uber Freight, U.S. Xpress, Werner, Covenant, Schneider, and Ryder. For Aurora’s latest news, visit aurora.tech and @aurora_inno on Twitter.

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 Full Stack Engineer to join Aurora’s Perception Performance and Coverage team. The team is responsible for metrics for evaluating the performance of the Perception subsystem, infrastructure for the evaluation pipelines, tools to introspect results and building a diverse dataset on which to measure performance.

In this role, you will

• Build backend and frontend components for a set of key services used on the Perception team, with interactive reports, plots, and insights into our autonomy systems
• Build out and integrate internal large-scale data generation systems that track and highlight changes in our self-driving system behavior
• Utilize and contribute to core web visualization libraries to enable annotation and visualization of interesting actors and scenarios used to evaluate our systems
• Work across a diverse team of backend engineers, product designers, autonomy developers, and other internal customers

Required Qualifications

• Excellent programming and design skills for backend (Python or C++) and frontend (React.js and JavaScript/Typescript)
• Proficient with databases or storage systems
• Web service experience
• Customer focused mindset

Desirable Qualifications

• Experience with 3D tempo-spatial renderers and tools

The base salary range for this position is $152K-$227K per year.  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 extraordinarily talented and experienced people united by the strength of our values. We operate with integrity, set outrageous goals, and build a culture where we win together — all without any jerks.

We have offices in several locations across the United States, where we encourage team and cross-functional collaboration. Aurora offers competitive medical, dental, and vision benefits, and additional healthcare support including medical transportation reimbursement, fertility, adoption, and surrogacy benefits. We empower our employees and their families with options to further their unique physical, mental, and financial well-being.

Our Learning and Development offerings include Aurora Academy, where our people learn, develop, and practice the essential skills that drive Aurora’s mission, continually up-leveling our team along the way. Our Careers page provides insight into career opportunities at Aurora, and you can find all the latest news on our Blog. 

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