Aurora's mission is to deliver the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly. The Autonomy Data team needs to build automated, human-in-the loop pipelines and tools to generate data for validating and optimizing the Aurora Driver planning behavior, which is critical for scaling the Aurora Driver.
Requirements
- Experience with modern programming languages such as Python, C++ or Java.
- 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
- The base salary range for this position is $162,000-$260,000 per year.
- The successful candidate will also be eligible for an annual bonus, equity compensation, and benefits.
- 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.
- 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.
