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Staff Security Software Engineer

Aurora Innovation

$220,000 - $350,000
Aug 20, 2025
San Francisco, CA, US
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Aurora's mission is to deliver the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly. The Security Software Engineering team's mission is to design, implement, and evaluate security components across Aurora's software, hardware, and services, with a focus on the design and development of new security frameworks and technologies for their autonomous vehicle platform.

Requirements

  • Familiar with C++17 and STL/golang
  • Understand and explain autonomous vehicle security concepts
  • Able to learn and create new C++ frameworks
  • Translate product requirements into code independently
  • Able to write high quality production code, unit tests, integration tests
  • Able to debug across module boundaries
  • Familiarity with automotive protocols and security standards
  • Experience building and evaluating threat models
  • Familiarity with and Ability to implement best practices related to cryptographic protocols, infrastructure and network security
  • Ability to translate company goals into product requirements
  • Familiarity with cloud security (AWS) and infrastructure-as-code
  • Familiarity with Trusted Platform Modules, HSMs, and trusted boot

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop new security components for our autonomous vehicle platform
  • Build and embed security components within autonomy frameworks and infrastructure frameworks
  • Work with partner teams to perform architectural design reviews of software, hardware, and services
  • Lead successful integration of security capabilities and components with partner teams
  • Work with Vehicle Platform partners and OEMs and ensure successful security integration into the Aurora Driver platform
  • Guide and mentor both security and non-security engineers

Other

  • Able to lead a team and organize projects in order to deliver desired outcome
  • Able to work cross functionally with other teams
  • Minimum 5 years of experience in a security-specific or security-adjacent industry
  • Minimum 2 years of experience in the robotics or automotive industry or equivalent
  • A history of giving back to the security industry via open source contributions, published papers, or conference presentations