Staff Software Engineer, Datasets and ML infrastructure

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 Staff Software Engineer on the ML Data Engine org: Datasets and Pipelines team. The ideal candidate will have a passion for diving into our datasets to help keep it interesting, clean, and diverse, and work with our Autonomy model developer partners as if you were on the same team. You’ll develop tools, data pipelines & APIs to accelerate data consumption, model training & landing workflows. 

In this role, you will

• Support feature development and for our labeling applications and data access
• Collaborate with autonomy engineers to improve the quality and composition of our datasets
• Leverage production best practices to guarantee a reliable platform for labeling operations and model training workflows
• Optimize data pipelines handling sensor data from millions of miles of on-road
• driving and richly-structured label data
• Collaborate across teams and functions (product, program, operations, data science) to drive projects from inception to delivery
• Depending on the project, you might
• Design and develop new features for a variety of labeling applications
• Leverage production best practices to guarantee a reliable platform for thousands of labeling operators
• Leverage MLOps best practices to design and develop scalable model training, evaluation and landing workflows

Required Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science, or a related field
• Excellent Python / Basic C++ programming and software design skills
• Experience with storage and database management systems (e.g., one of SQL, no-SQL, protobuf, parquet, HDFS)
• Experience working in a cloud environment (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure, etc)
• Knowledge and experience in at least one of Perception, 3D geometry, autonomous driving, 3D computer vision, robotics, mapping, 3D labeling

 

Desirable Qualifications

• Excellent C++ programming and software design skills
• Distributed System design patterns (high availability, scaling, load balancing, caching, sharding etc.)
• Experience with Web frameworks and frontend development in React.js and JavaScript/TypeScript (not a primary focus of this role, but a very nice to have)

 

The base salary range for this position is $168,000-$252,000 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