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 Systems Engineer to join Aurora’s Software Systems, Safety, and Test Engineering team. Systems, Safety, and Test Engineering is responsible for the engineering work to verify and validate Aurora’s self-driving technology - an unsolved problem for the industry and one of the most difficult challenges in the history of systems engineering. The System Test team is responsible for supporting system-level autonomy development, verification, and validation by delivering decision-quality information via test and evaluation of the Aurora Driver.

In this role, you will

• Work alongside leadership in developing strategies for testing the Aurora Driver
• Leverage diverse testing methods including simulation, Hardware-In-Loop (HIL), track, and road testing in support of autonomy development and system verification and validation
• Plan and execute tests, analyze results, and identify defects or anomalies in system behavior
• Work closely with development teams to investigate root causes and drive resolution of issues
• Provide frequent, simple, and clear written and verbal communication of complex ideas to external teams, peers, and stakeholders
• Design, develop, execute, and train others in processes that embody test engineering best practice

Required Qualifications

• BS degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or another relevant engineering field
• 8+ years of highly relevant industry experience
• Proven experience in test and evaluation of complex systems
• Experience with test methods, tools, and frameworks
• Ability to synthesize data into meaningful information to support decision making
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail

 Desirable Qualifications 

• Experience in testing high-risk and safety critical products
• Application of engineering and/or operational risk assessment methodologies
• Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g. Python, bash) with an emphasis around data management for test reports
• Previous experience with autonomous systems (particularly automotive-based)
• Proficiency in JAMA for requirements management and testing
• Knowledge of automotive safety standards (e.g. ASPICE, ISO 26262, SOTIF) and familiarity with regulatory requirements or evaluation standards for autonomous vehicles (e.g. UL4600, Euro NCAP)
• Prior experience with sophisticated, mission-critical hardware and/or software within a safety critical industry (e.g. aerospace, defense, medical, transportation)
• Familiarity with software development methodologies, version control systems (e.g. Git and continuous integration (CI) pipelines

The base salary range for this position is  $135,000 - $216,000 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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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. 

The journey to developing our cutting-edge self-driving truck Driver software requires a massive and continuous computational effort. Every day, Aurora's engineers initiate and manage millions of compute tasks, systematically processing and analyzing petabytes of critical data. This colossal computational workload spans various essential domains, including raw and derived data processing pipelines, large-scale simulations to test and validate the software in countless scenarios, and the intensive machine learning training jobs that are the core of our autonomous system's intelligence.

At the heart of orchestrating this monumental compute infrastructure is the Compute team. This team is dedicated to building and maintaining the foundational technology that solves the fundamental challenges of resource scheduling, task isolation, and distributed state consistency across our massive batch compute fleet. At our scale, traditional off-the-shelf orchestrators break. The Compute team builds the custom engine - BatchAPI - that manages the lifecycle of millions of tasks - built on top of K8s primitives but implements our own custom scheduler.

We deal with the 'unsolved' problems of distributed computing: maximizing hardware utilization while ensuring that a failure in one node doesn't cascade across the entire cluster. This engine is engineered to handle massive scale, ensuring reliability, efficiency, and rapid turnaround for our engineers.

Furthermore, the Compute team empowers engineers across the company to effectively harness this compute power. They develop and maintain the Batch Workflows Python SDK. This framework provides an intuitive, high-level interface that allows engineers to programmatically define, construct, deploy, monitor, and manage their complex computational workloads. The SDK abstracts away the complexities of the underlying infrastructure, enabling engineers to focus purely on the logic and goals of their data processing, simulation, or training tasks, thus accelerating the entire development cycle for the Aurora Driver.

In this role you will

• Design, implement, and maintain core components of the high-performance, large-scale distributed batch compute engine (BatchAPI). Architect and optimize the scheduler, resource allocator, and execution engine of BatchAPI to handle bursty, heterogeneous workloads with minimal overhead.
• Design low-latency APIs and resilient communication protocols that bridge our Python SDK with the Golang-based core engine.
• Develop high-level workflow abstractions, enabling engineers across the company to programmatically define, deploy, and manage complex data processing, simulation, and ML training pipelines. 
• Solve complex problems in distributed locking, throttling, and fair-share scheduling to ensure multi-tenant stability.
• Drive continuous improvements in the performance, scalability, and resilience of the entire compute infrastructure, implementing robust monitoring and alerting systems to maintain operational excellence for critical workflows.
• Collaborate closely with infrastructure and product engineering teams (e.g., Autonomy, Data, Simulation, Machine Learning) to gather requirements, provide expert consultation, and integrate compute workflows with key company systems.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Deep expertise in Golang (for core systems) and Python (for SDK/API layering).
• Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals (e.g., CAP theorem, consensus algorithms, or gossip protocols).
• Experience with performance profiling and tuning (e.g., memory management, I/O bottlenecks, or network latency optimization).
• Specialized knowledge of container orchestration systems like Kubernetes.
• Proven track record of driving continuous performance, scalability, and resilience improvements in production environments managing critical data.
• Familiarity with cloud provider compute and data services (e.g., AWS EKS, S3, RDS).

Desirable qualifications

• Experience working with computational workloads specific to the autonomous vehicle, robotics, or large-scale machine learning domains (e.g., data processing for perception, simulation, or model training).
• Demonstrated ability in creating and refining user-facing tools, including adeptness at incorporating user feedback, managing expectations, and effectively prioritizing development based on user needs.
• Web UI development experience (Typescript, React)

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The base salary range for this position is  $146,000 - $234,000 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.

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 the Autonomy Integration Team (Functional Architecture)!

In this role, you will

• Work within our Autonomy Integration team to develop infrastructure and integrate software with a modern C++ autonomy stack.
• Interact with autonomy planning and control software, remote assist software, and vehicle platform commands and monitoring.
• Develop fault monitoring of autonomy subsystems. 
• Develop software that will directly influence on-road behavior of autonomous vehicles including mode of operation, fault management, and health monitoring.
• Work with software/hardware interfaces including embedded system simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, and vehicle system level testing.
• Build tools to automate testing and analysis of the motion planning subsystem to assist in verification to safety-critical coverage standards.
• Development in Linux-based environments or embedded platform.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of applied industry experience in software development using modern robotics frameworks
• Proficient in C++ and C code, including experience with distributed or embedded applications
• Knowledge of software architecture design best practices
• Familiarity with modern communication technologies and networking protocols (CAN, TCP and UDP)
• Working knowledge of software analysis, linting, and testing tools

Desirable Qualifications

• Experience in a regulated, safety critical, or quality managed environment
• Experience with autonomous vehicles or related robotics fields
• Familiarity with Motion Planning algorithms or control systems of automotive, aerospace, robotics, or similar systems

The base salary range for this position is $126K - $181.5K 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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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 to join Aurora’s Behavior Planning ML Platform team.  Our team is responsible for building both the offline pipelines to train and evaluate models and the infrastructure to efficiently run these models onboard the vehicle. On the offboard side, we build and support  the large scale distributed pipelines that model developers rely on to source data at scale, train, and evaluate machine learning models. On the onboard side, we build and maintain the on-vehicle infrastructure required to deploy these models and run inference in a soft real-time system.

In this role, you will

• Develop large scale pipelines for data extraction, model training and model evaluation
• Build and optimize onboard ML infrastructure used to deploy models and run inference onboard the vehicle
• Collaborate closely with motion planning, systems engineering, and other autonomy groups to define and develop critical ML workflow requirements.

Required Qualifications

• BS or higher degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related fields. > 6 months of experience
• Strong programming skills in C++ or Python, ideally both
• Experience with machine learning frameworks (PyTorch or TensorFlow)
• Solid foundation in computer science fundamentals - especially operating system concepts including concurrency, memory management and process scheduling.

Desirable Qualifications (this section is optional)

• Experience with GPU programming and Nvidia profiling tools - CUDA, NSight Systems, Nsight Compute
• Experience working in cloud compute (AWS, Azure, GCP) ideally with batch processing or other large-scale workflow management platforms. 
• Experience profiling and optimizing software on Linux

The base salary range for this position is $126,000 - $181,000 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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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 are seeking a ML Engineering TL to join the Behavior Planning Team. This is a high-impact role where you will sit at the frontier of autonomous vehicle technology. You won't just be applying AI and ML methods; you will be advancing the state-of-the-art for how a self-driving system reasons about the world, interacts with humans on the road, and masters complex, high-dimensional decision-making.

In this role, you will

• Define the architecture of our onboard planning models: Develop and deploy large-scale models trained with Imitation Learning and Reinforcement Learning that enable the Aurora Driver to navigate complex environments with human-like fluidity and superhuman safety.
• Build our next-generation simulation engine: Architect cutting-edge offboard foundation models that power our simulation engine, creating realistic "world models" to test the Aurora Driver against an infinite variety of edge cases.
• Revolutionize evaluation: Develop powerful offboard critic models that can evaluate driving behavior at scale, identifying subtle nuances in comfort, progress, and safety that traditional heuristics miss.
• Bridge research and production: Reach new frontiers of autonomous driving technology by pushing forward the state-of-the-art, but also deploy your models on real production vehicles that drive on public roads and must meet the highest standards of safety. 
• Mentor and lead: Serve as a technical lead, guiding junior engineers and shaping the long-term roadmap for ML-based planning at Aurora, including the onboard and off-board ecosystem that is needed to support it.

Required Qualifications

• MS or PhD in Robotics, Machine Learning, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 + years of experience developing state-of-the-art ML models, either in a research or production setting.
• Hands-on experience working on Imitation Learning or Reinforcement Learning applied to physical or simulated agents.
• Experience training large models on massive datasets using distributed computing.
• Fluency in Python, with a focus on writing high-performance, maintainable code.
• Deep experience with PyTorch (preferred) or another modern ML framework, and a mastery of modern ML architectures including Transformers and Diffusion Models.

Desirable Qualifications

• A track record of publications in top-tier ML conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, CoRL, CVPR, AAAI).
• Experience deploying complex ML systems in production environments.
• Experience in developing generative models or neural simulators for synthetic data generation.
• Experience leading small or large teams to execute highly technical projects.

The base salary range for this position is $171K - $247K 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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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 II, Test Drive.

Role/Team overview:

Test Drive team as a Software Engineer and play a pivotal role in the development and validation of autonomous driving technology. Our team is at the forefront of building the critical tools, robust data pipelines, and scalable infrastructure. This role will be measured by how productive our entire organization is. You straddle the line between front-end and back-end development with advanced knowledge in multiple frameworks and languages.

In this role, you will be instrumental in designing and implementing a robust, integrated, and user-friendly platform that serves as the backbone of Aurora’s offline testing workflows. This challenging and rewarding work is absolutely essential for generating the high-quality, diverse data needed to thoroughly validate and continuously optimize the Aurora Driver's planning behavior. Your contributions will directly impact our ability to scale the Aurora Driver safely and efficiently, bringing the future of autonomous transportation closer to reality. 

We are looking for passionate and skilled software engineers who are eager to tackle complex problems and contribute to a mission-critical component of Aurora's success. Success in this role requires a value for design, a commitment to fast learning, and strong teamwork. You will be expected to quickly adapt to new technologies, understand the full web stack, and take ownership of shipping impactful results.

In this role, you will

• Design, develop a platform for validating off-board autonomy software.
• Develop tools for increasing the development speed of building and evaluating autonomy software.
• Build highly scalable, robust, and fault-tolerant services that support our unique rate-of-growth requirements
• Develop tools for introspection, visualization, and performance analysis of autonomy systems.
• Improve the performance of autonomy systems through architectural and algorithmic optimizations
• Collaborate with stakeholders including Autonomy Engineers, Test Engineers, Product, Cloud Platform and Safety to ensure timely delivery of validation data set.

Required Qualifications

• Experience with cloud automation, data and test automation
• Experience with modern programming languages such as Python, Golang, or Typescript.
• Experience with cloud offerings such as AWS or GCP.
• Experience with cloud storages such as S3, Postgres and Redis.

Desirable Experience

• Experience in Distributed Systems and Concurrency.
• Experience in Scaling Data Pipelines through Observability and Traceability.
• Experience in Self Driving / Autonomy Driving.

The base salary range for this position is $126,000-$181,500 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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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 are seeking a ML Engineering TL to join the Behavior Planning Team. This is a high-impact role where you will sit at the frontier of autonomous vehicle technology. You won't just be applying AI and ML methods; you will be advancing the state-of-the-art for how a self-driving system reasons about the world, interacts with humans on the road, and masters complex, high-dimensional decision-making.

In this role, you will

• Define the architecture of our onboard planning models: Develop and deploy large-scale models trained with Imitation Learning and Reinforcement Learning that enable the Aurora Driver to navigate complex environments with human-like fluidity and superhuman safety.
• Build our next-generation simulation engine: Architect cutting-edge offboard foundation models that power our simulation engine, creating realistic "world models" to test the Aurora Driver against an infinite variety of edge cases.
• Revolutionize evaluation: Develop powerful offboard critic models that can evaluate driving behavior at scale, identifying subtle nuances in comfort, progress, and safety that traditional heuristics miss.
• Bridge research and production: Reach new frontiers of autonomous driving technology by pushing forward the state-of-the-art, but also deploy your models on real production vehicles that drive on public roads and must meet the highest standards of safety. 
• Mentor and lead: Serve as a technical lead, guiding junior engineers and shaping the long-term roadmap for ML-based planning at Aurora, including the onboard and off-board ecosystem that is needed to support it.

Required Qualifications

• MS or PhD in Robotics, Machine Learning, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 + years of experience developing state-of-the-art ML models, either in a research or production setting.
• Hands-on experience working on Imitation Learning or Reinforcement Learning applied to physical or simulated agents.
• Experience training large models on massive datasets using distributed computing.
• Fluency in Python, with a focus on writing high-performance, maintainable code.
• Deep experience with PyTorch (preferred) or another modern ML framework, and a mastery of modern ML architectures including Transformers and Diffusion Models.

Desirable Qualifications

• A track record of publications in top-tier ML conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, CoRL, CVPR, AAAI).
• Experience deploying complex ML systems in production environments.
• Experience in developing generative models or neural simulators for synthetic data generation.
• Experience leading small or large teams to execute highly technical projects.

The base salary range for this position is $171K - $247K 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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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 Vehicle Data Management team. The Vehicle Data Management Team is responsible for offloading, ingesting and scaling data through various pipelines, including autonomy sensor data, vehicle logs, sims, models, and training sets. The ideal candidate will design and implement systems that efficiently work for both physical offloaders and cloud, and also be an effective liaison between onboard system to cloud system.

In this role, you will

• Architect and implement on-vehicle/offload + cloud data systems that scale to hundreds of PB of multimodal data (sensor/log/sim/ML datasets).
• Improve reliability and performance of offline data workflows: throughput, latency, and discoverability (indexing/metadata/search).
• Build internal tooling, libraries, and operational patterns that make data pipelines  evolve and scale.
• Own key services end-to-end (design, implementation, rollout, on-call/operations, observability, and incident response).
• Partner directly with stakeholders across onboard systems, autonomy, ML, and infrastructure to deliver pragmatic solutions.

Required Qualifications

• BS/MS or PhD in Computer Science or a related field
• Minimum 3-5 years related experience
• Required programming skills: GoLang/Python
• General knowledge of backend software systems networking, load balancing, API gateways, system security, gRPC services.
• AWS infrastructure experience, including S3 and DynamoDB in a production commercial system
• Knowledge of database design, database management and database scalability.

Desirable Qualifications

• Proficiencies with coding in C++ 
• Proficiencies with Linux system 
• Experience with large scale distributed systems or microservice architectures
• A passion for writing robust, intuitive, high-performance code, and being pragmatic about it
• Ability to navigate and work efficiently in large codebase 
• Strong software development background demonstrated by industry experience in building platforms that serve AV development and commercialization.

The base salary range for this position is  $162,000 - $260,000 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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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 Vehicle Data Management team. The Vehicle Data Management Team is responsible for offloading, ingesting and scaling data through various pipelines, including autonomy sensor data, vehicle logs, sims, models, and training sets. The ideal candidate will design and implement systems that efficiently work for both physical offloaders and cloud, and also be an effective liaison between onboard system to cloud system.

In this role, you will

• Architect and implement on-vehicle/offload + cloud data systems that scale to hundreds of PB of multimodal data (sensor/log/sim/ML datasets).
• Improve reliability and performance of offline data workflows: throughput, latency, and discoverability (indexing/metadata/search).
• Build internal tooling, libraries, and operational patterns that make data pipelines  evolve and scale.
• Own key services end-to-end (design, implementation, rollout, on-call/operations, observability, and incident response).
• Partner directly with stakeholders across onboard systems, autonomy, ML, and infrastructure to deliver pragmatic solutions.

Required Qualifications

• BS/MS or PhD in Computer Science or a related field
• Minimum 3-5 years related experience
• Required programming skills: GoLang/Python
• General knowledge of backend software systems networking, load balancing, API gateways, system security, gRPC services.
• AWS infrastructure experience, including S3 and DynamoDB in a production commercial system
• Knowledge of database design, database management and database scalability.

Desirable Qualifications

• Proficiencies with coding in C++ 
• Proficiencies with Linux system 
• Experience with large scale distributed systems or microservice architectures
• A passion for writing robust, intuitive, high-performance code, and being pragmatic about it
• Ability to navigate and work efficiently in large codebase 
• Strong software development background demonstrated by industry experience in building platforms that serve AV development and commercialization.

The base salary range for this position is  $146,000 - $234,000 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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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 to join Aurora’s Data Platform. The Data Platform Team is responsible for offloading, ingesting and scaling data through various pipelines, including autonomy sensor data, vehicle logs, sims, models, and training sets, along with their life cycle management. The ideal candidate will design and implement systems that efficiently work for both physical offloaders and cloud, and also be an effective liaison between onboard system to cloud system.

In this role, you will

• Contribute to the development of internal products and following best practices to simplify data retention. 
• Work on tasks to improve the log data availability, discoverability and end to end  lifecycle.
• Design efficient AV Log storage patterns that balance performance and affordability. Help drive the system efficiency by improving data hygiene across Aurora to deliver cost efficiency.
• Support software engineers across different teams and proactively working together with stakeholders on tasks to satisfy company OKR.

Required Qualifications

• BS/MS or PhD in Computer Science or a related field
• Minimum 1 year related experience
• Required programming skills: GoLang/Python
• General knowledge of backend software systems networking, load balancing, API gateways, system security, gRPC services.
• AWS infrastructure experience, including S3 and DynamoDB in a production commercial system
• Knowledge of database design, database management and database scalability.

Desirable Qualifications 

• Proficiencies with coding in C++ 
• Proficiencies with Linux system 
• Experience with large scale distributed systems or microservice architectures
• Experience with DynamoDB / AWS Glue Catalog / AWS Athena
• A passion for writing robust, intuitive, high-performance code, and being pragmatic about it
• Ability to navigate and work efficiently in large codebase 
• Strong software development background demonstrated by industry experience in building platforms that serve AV development and commercialization.

The base salary range for this position is  $105,000 - $157,000 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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What we are looking for

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 II to join the Control Simulation team and help transform how we validate and improve the safety and performance of the Aurora Driver.

In this role, you will operate at the intersection of Machine Learning, Software Engineering, Data Science, and Vehicle Dynamics. You will contribute to the development of our next-generation data driven vehicle simulator, build data pipelines that source critical scenarios from our fleet and generate simulations from logs, and analyze data to prove the safety of our motion control software.

This is a high-impact role for an engineer who enjoys a mix of model development, infrastructure building, and data analysis.

In This Role You Will:

• Develop Vehicle Models: Help design and implement our next-generation differentiable vehicle dynamics simulator for controls V&V.
• Build Simulation Pipelines: Design and maintain the software pipelines required to generate "Sim-from-Log" scenarios. You will ensure that high-value on-road events are systematically converted into reproducible simulation tests.
• Implement Control Scenario Taxonomies & Curate Data: Build the data structures and algorithms to categorize complex control scenarios (e.g., maneuvers, environments) and use this framework to source balanced datasets from on-road logs, ensuring comprehensive ODD coverage for model training.

Required Qualifications:

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Robotics, Data Science, or a related engineering field.
• 2+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on data-intensive applications or machine learning.
• Strong proficiency in Python (including libraries like Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn).
• Hands-on experience with PyTorch or similar machine learning frameworks.
• Experience working with large datasets, SQL, and data processing pipelines.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate complex data into actionable engineering insights.
• Background or interest in Control Theory or Vehicle Dynamics (understanding of kinematics, kinetics, and actuation).

Desirable Qualifications:

• Experience with machine learning or system identification for physics based-models.
• Familiarity with V&V methodologies, simulation frameworks, or log analysis tools.
• Experience building data visualization tools or dashboards to track software quality and coverage.
• Proficiency in C++ (necessary for integrating with on-vehicle or production codebases).

The base salary range for this position is $126,000-$181,000 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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#Associate

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 System Test Engineer to join Aurora’s Sensing Subsystem Test Team. In support of Aurora’s Safety Case, the Sensing Subsystem Test Team is responsible for supporting subsystem-level autonomy test development, verification, and validation by delivering decision-quality performance information via test and evaluation of the Aurora Driver.

In this role, you will

• Develop and maintain test strategies, plans, and procedures for the Perception subsystem of the Aurora Driver
• Serves as SME for specific sub-system/capability/item in the Perception Subsystem and operates independently with customers (including Autonomy, Systems, Safety Engineering) to understand requirements and proactively define novel approaches to understand and improve performance
• Proactively drive and design testing coverage strategies by defining test dimensions that align with the product milestones.
• Implement, coordinate, and design diverse testing methods including simulation, track, and road testing in support of autonomy development and system verification and validation
• Execute tests, analyze results, and identify defects or anomalies in subsystem behavior
• Work closely with development teams to drive continuous performance assessment, investigate root causes, and drive resolution/risk acceptance of issues, before release
• Provide frequent, simple, and clear written and verbal communication of complex ideas to external teams, peers, and stakeholders
• Design, develop, execute, and train others in processes that embody test engineering best practice
• Provides guidance and support to junior engineers and analysts
• Establishes new test & evaluation processes at the project level, and/or develops new tooling and methods.

Required Qualifications

• Degree in, or highly relevant experience in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or another relevant engineering field
• 6 - 8 years of relevant industry experience
• Proven experience in test and evaluation of complex systems
• Demonstrated understanding of the interdependency of Requirements Decomposition, Test Coverage, and Deficiency Resolution
• Experience with test methods, tools, and frameworks
• Ability to synthesize data into meaningful information to support decision making
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Desirable Qualifications

• Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g. Python, bash) and query languages (e.g. SQL) with an emphasis around data management for test reports
• Previous experience with autonomous systems (particularly automotive-based)
• Previous experience specifically with Perception testing
• Familiarity with software development methodologies, version control systems (e.g., Git), and continuous integration (CI) pipelines

The base salary range for this position is $115K - $166.5K 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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