Technical Lead Engineering Manager, Autonomy Integration

Aurora Innovation•Mountain View, CA

About The Position

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’re searching for a Technical Lead Engineering Manager to join our Autonomy Integration Team! The team has a wide range of responsibilities to promote product success. This includes: Working across the teams in our organization (hardware, embedded software, autonomy software, cloud services, operations) to optimize simplicity and reliability for our customer users. Being accountable for the safe and reliable deployment of the Aurora Driver on a variety of partner vehicle and compute platforms. Providing the mechanisms for remotely offering human guidance to the Aurora Driver to improve mission success outcomes and optimize road user experience. Building and maintaining the fault handling framework to deliver system redundancy and fault tolerance. Measuring the performance of the Aurora Driver product and identifying the most critical opportunities for improving our product outcomes. In this role, you will Interfacing with the ECUs that are used to report state and control the vehicle platforms we deploy the Aurora Driver on. Detecting platform error conditions and initiating any necessary behavioral responses to these conditions. Building and maintaining tests and test infrastructure to validate the integration onto target platforms Ensuring that the system integration with the base vehicle platform has complete redundancy and no single point failure modes. Mapping the Aurora Driver software components to the hardware components to ensure that the software footprint will be amenable to the hardware constraints. Monitoring onboard system performance metrics and identifying hot spots for optimization. Maintaining the onboard orchestration of launching onboard software components Optimizing the speed and reliability of primary product functions from key-on to trip launch, from trip launch to trip completion, and from trip completion to re-launch. Enhancing the speed and reliability of secondary product functions such as software upgrades, routine maintenance, and required service. Leading a team of 10-20 engineers on developing the plans necessary to achieve company objectives. Deciding on technical approaches while trading off against competing efforts and value. Directing the execution of the programs staffed by members both internal and external to the platform integration team Identifying technical and schedule risks that endanger company objectives and generating solution ideas reduce risk.

Requirements

Engineering Leadership: 8+ years of experience in autonomous vehicles, robotics, aerospace, or complex autonomy systems, with at least 3+ years in a formal management or TLM role.
Systems Integration Mastery: Proven track record of integrating complex software stacks onto diverse hardware/embedded platforms.
Validation & Testing: Experience building automated test infrastructure to validate software-in-the-loop (SIL) and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) integrations.
Cross-Functional Diplomat: A history of successfully navigating technical trade-offs between software, embedded, hardware challenges and solutions.
Problem Solving: The ability to translate vague product goals into concrete technical requirements and execution plans.

Nice To Haves

Embedded Proficiencies: Strong experience with ECU communication protocols (CAN, Ethernet, etc.) and real-time operating systems (RTOS).
Cloud-to-Vehicle Experience: Familiarity with how onboard systems interact with cloud services for remote human guidance or telemetry.
Safety-Critical Systems: Experience in redundancy patterns, and fault-tolerant architecture.
Vendor/Partner Management: Experience working directly with Tier 1 automotive suppliers or OEMs on platform-specific integration

Responsibilities

Interfacing with the ECUs that are used to report state and control the vehicle platforms we deploy the Aurora Driver on.
Detecting platform error conditions and initiating any necessary behavioral responses to these conditions.
Building and maintaining tests and test infrastructure to validate the integration onto target platforms
Ensuring that the system integration with the base vehicle platform has complete redundancy and no single point failure modes.
Mapping the Aurora Driver software components to the hardware components to ensure that the software footprint will be amenable to the hardware constraints.
Monitoring onboard system performance metrics and identifying hot spots for optimization.
Maintaining the onboard orchestration of launching onboard software components
Optimizing the speed and reliability of primary product functions from key-on to trip launch, from trip launch to trip completion, and from trip completion to re-launch.
Enhancing the speed and reliability of secondary product functions such as software upgrades, routine maintenance, and required service.
Leading a team of 10-20 engineers on developing the plans necessary to achieve company objectives.
Deciding on technical approaches while trading off against competing efforts and value.
Directing the execution of the programs staffed by members both internal and external to the platform integration team
Identifying technical and schedule risks that endanger company objectives and generating solution ideas reduce risk.