Software Engineer, Performance Engineering Optimization

Aurora•Mountain View, CA

20h•Hybrid

About The Position

Aurora is seeking a Software Engineer to join its Performance Engineering Optimization (PEO) team. The team empowers engineers to reduce onboard software latency and improve hardware utilization by building production-level performance tooling and processes, enabling rapid, data-driven performance experimentation, and helping discover and diagnose software and hardware performance problems. It also helps autonomy engineers understand cause-and-effect relationships between onboard events. In this role, you will contribute to tooling that probes, collects, and processes large volumes of performance data from vehicles and simulations. You will design, build, and maintain robust, cost-effective data pipelines and processing systems that ingest and transform data from multiple sources into a warehouse, supporting downstream performance visualization and analysis tools. You will collaborate with engineers across Autonomy, Sensing, and Vehicle Platform Infrastructure on optimization efforts.

Requirements

C++ or Python programming and software design skills.
Knowledge of ETL pipelines.
Ability to apply statistical and machine learning methods for data analysis.
Experience and knowledge of Linux fundamentals.
Bachelor's or master's degree in Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field.
1–3 years of professional experience.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

Create and contribute to tooling that probes, collects, and processes performance data from vehicles and simulations.
Design, build, and maintain robust, cost-effective data pipelines and processing systems.
Ingest and transform data from multiple sources into a data warehouse to support performance visualization and analysis tools.
Collaborate with engineers in Autonomy, Sensing, and Vehicle Platform Infrastructure on optimization efforts.