Senior Software Engineer

About the position

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. At Aurora, you'll solve massively complex problems alongside other passionate, smart people, growing as an expert while broadening your field of knowledge. For Aurora’s latest news, visit aurora.tech or follow us on LinkedIn. 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 searching for a Backend Software Engineer to join Aurora's Aurora Services Engineering team and take on a critical role in building Aurora's suite of fleet management tools. The Aurora Services Engineering team creates services and web applications that enable commercial operation of autonomous vehicle fleets at scale. Our mission is to build the software that will be used daily by human operators to coordinate the business side of our platform - evaluating route feasibility, assigning work to autonomous vehicles, and managing a fleet of vehicles. As Aurora prepares to massively scale its fleet and integrate with partners on an API level, the tools we build will be critical to the efficient daily operation of our business.

Responsibilities

• Join a team which builds both product services for fleet assistance and fleet intelligence and core services to enable reliable/robust vehicle to cloud communication.
• Build onboard software running on Aurora vehicles which communicate with the AWS cloud over mobile data networks to enable monitoring and managing the location and activity of our entire autonomous fleet.
• Build systems for fleet intelligence and solve challenging problems around vehicle - cloud communications.
• Optimize real-time streaming data sent to the cloud from autonomous vehicles.
• Work with teammates to establish new technologies and approaches to onboard and backend development as our stack matures.
• Contribute to and evolve team culture around mentorship, feedback, collaboration, and engineering excellence.
• Collaborate with product and design stakeholders to plan features and build high-quality, extensible, and polished experiences.

Requirements

• Phenomenal communication skills.
• A preference for action and good judgment to balance speed and quality.
• The drive to make teams stronger and engage conflict with openness, patience, and kindness.
• Motivation to own the product lifecycle end to end.
• Experience developing onboard software in a robotics system such as ROS.
• Backend service engineering skills to complement onboard development.
• Experience working with real-time streaming data in bandwidth-constrained environments.
• A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 10 or more years of industry experience.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience building gRPC clients/services with C++.
• Experience developing performance-sensitive C++ software.
• Deep understanding of modern C++ development best practices.

Benefits

• Annual bonus
• Equity compensation
• Health benefits