Staff Software Engineer - Onboard Networking

Aurora Innovation•Pittsburgh, PA

27d•$171,000 - $273,000

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. 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 Vehicle Platforms team is responsible for bringing up Aurora’s self-driving vehicle platforms and integrating their core hardware components such as compute, base vehicle, embedded devices and sensors into the onboard software, creation of tools to support fleet operations and monitor hardware health, performance optimization, onboard networking architecture and monitoring.

Requirements

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent industry experience
Strong programming skills in C++
Experience working with networking protocols, such as TCP, UDP, CAN bus protocols, RTP, gRPC, TFTP, HTTP, 802.1Q/VLANs
Linux networking and troubleshooting
A passion for writing robust, intuitive, high-performance code, and being pragmatic about it
A passion to work at the hardware/software interface
Ability to navigate and work effectively in large codebases
Good communication skills and the ability to work efficiently with cross functional and geographically dispersed teams

Nice To Haves

Experience with Linux Kernel Networking, BGP routing protocol
Experience working with various sensors, e.g. lidars, radars, cameras, audio, etc.
Experience with system performance evaluation and optimization.
Experience with IP tables or Nftables
Experience with Base-T1 automotive ethernet
Automotive networking and protocols; SOME/IP, UDS, CANbus
Experience with Network Monitoring and SNMP, gNMI or any monitoring protocol
Hardware health monitoring frameworks
Designing and understanding complex software systems and interplay between system components
Time sensitive networking protocols, e.g. PTP, gPTP, etc.
Experience with safety critical systems
Good understanding of ethernet switching and interaction between OSI layers 1, 2, 3 and 4

Responsibilities

Perform bring up of new vehicle platforms
Define vehicle compute and network architecture
Integrate new sensors and embedded devices and build interfaces for autonomy software
Address vehicle-specific concerns for vehicle runtime, e.g. vehicle stack configuration, networking stack configuration, performance, hardware health monitoring, and networking monitoring and security
Evolve the fleet from a collection of individual vehicles into a full service platform with integrated metrics and monitoring
Optimize performance on Network, CPU and GPU and other limited onboard hardware resources
Help define precision time protocol architecture across the network
Work with autonomy engineers to meet security, integrity and latency requirements for sensor data
Utilize HIL (hardware-in-the-loop) test infrastructure to automatically verify onboard code changes and profile performance
Provide engineering support for field testing and fleet operations