Staff Software Engineer - Vehicle Data Management

Aurora Innovation • Pittsburgh, PA

84d • $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. We’re searching for a Staff 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.

Requirements

• BS/MS or PhD in Computer Science or a related field
• Minimum 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
• Knowledge about workflow orchestration pipeline - Kubernetes, CI/CD tooling
• Comfortable working with Cloud Native services
• Comfortable with Linux/other unix environments

Nice To Haves

• 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

Responsibilities

• Lead design and scaling of various data systems (both on- and offline) dealing with hundreds of petabytes of multimodal sensor collections, autonomy simulations, and ML datasets
• Help improve the discoverability, throughput, and latency of our multi-modal offline data
• Create internal products and best practices to help become more efficient, transparent and innovative as we launch our commercial Aurora Driver product
• Mentor and grow our engineering team with new perspectives, technologies and designs
• Be a force multiplier across a diverse set of hardware and software engineers and proactively work together with stakeholders to achieve cross-departmental goals and satisfy company OKR

Benefits

• Annual bonus
• Equity compensation
• Comprehensive benefits package

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree