Aurora's mission is to deliver the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly. The Autonomy Action: Behavior Engine team builds tools, data pipelines, infrastructures and ML classifiers to empower the data-driven processes for all Motion Planner's behavior development and validation. We are looking for an exceptional Software Engineer to join the team to help build automated, human-in-the loop pipelines and tools that generate data to validate and optimize the Aurora Driver planning behavior. Our work is on the critical path to scale the Aurora Driver.
Requirements
- Experience with modern programming languages such as Python or C++
- Experience with developing in a Linux or Unix environment.
- Experience with developing data pipelines such as Airflow, Buildkite or Step Functions.
- Experience with cloud offerings such as AWS or GCP.
- Experience with cloud storages such as S3, Postgres and Redis.
- Experience with communication protocols such as HTTP and gRPC.
- Experience in Self Driving / Autonomy Driving.
- Experience in Robotics / Mappings / Motion Planning is a plus.
- Experience in Distributed Systems and Concurrency.
- Experience in Scaling Data Pipelines through Observability and Traceability.
- Experience in Event Queues such as Kafka, SQS or SNS.
- Experience in Cloud Security Concepts such as JWT and mTLS.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop and maintain the Motion Planner behavior validation data creation and evaluation pipeline.
- Develop tools for increasing the development speed of building and evaluating autonomy software.
- Develop tools for introspection, visualization and performance analysis.
- Improve the performance of the autonomy system through validation optimizations.
- Collaborate with stakeholders including Autonomy Engineers, Test Engineers, Product, Cloud Platform and Safety to ensure timely delivery of validation data set.
Other
- 2+ years of software engineering experience.
- A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field.
- We operate with integrity, set outrageous goals, and build a culture where we win together — all without any jerks.
- Aurora considers candidates without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy status, parent or caregiver status, ancestry, political affiliation, veteran and/or military status, physical or mental disability, or any other status protected by federal or state law.
- We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures.
