Software Engineer, Performance Engineering Optimization

Aurora•Mountain View, CA

2d•$116,000 - $174,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Aurora’s mission is to deliver the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly. 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 will tackle massively complex problems alongside other passionate, intelligent individuals, growing as an expert while expanding your knowledge. For the latest news from Aurora, visit aurora.tech or follow us on LinkedIn. 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 production-level 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.

Requirements

C++ or Python programming and software design skills.
Knowledge of ETL pipelines.
Ability to apply statistical and ML methods for data analysis.
Experience and knowledge of Linux fundamentals.
BS or MS in Robotics, Computer Science or a related field with 1-3 years of professional experience.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge and interest in cloud storage, cloud based data pipelines.
Experience in data science and data engineering on cloud platforms.
Familiarity with Linux OS fundamentals and basic concepts of performance optimization for soft real-time systems.

Responsibilities

Create and contribute to tooling that probes, collects & processes monumental amounts of performance data both on-vehicle & in-simulation.
Design, build, and maintain robust, cost-effective data pipelines and processing systems that ingest and transform data across sources into our warehouse, supporting downstream tools for performance visualization and analysis
Collaborate cross functionally with engineers in various domains within Aurora, including Autonomy, Sensing, Vehicle Platform Infrastructure on optimization efforts.