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Staff Software Engineer - Vehicle Platforms

Aurora Innovation

$162,000 - $260,000
Aug 18, 2025
Mountain View, CA, US
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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.

Requirements

  • Strong programming skills in C++
  • Ability to work across multiple programming languages and paradigms
  • Experience working with networking protocols, such as TCP, UDP, CAN bus protocols, RTP, gRPC, TFTP, HTTP
  • A passion to work at the hardware/software interface
  • Ability to navigate and work effectively in large codebases
  • Experience working with various sensors, e.g. lidars, radars, cameras, audio, etc.
  • Experience with performance evaluation and optimization.

Responsibilities

  • Define vehicle compute and network architecture
  • Perform bring up of new vehicle platforms
  • Integrate new sensors and embedded devices and build interfaces for autonomy software
  • Define network connectivity from vehicle to offboard services
  • Address vehicle-specific concerns for vehicle runtime, e.g. vehicle stack configuration, networking stack configuration, performance, hardware health monitoring, and networking monitoring
  • Evolve the fleet from a collection of individual vehicles into a full service platform with integrated metrics and monitoring
  • Optimize performance on CPU and GPU and other limited onboard hardware resources

Other

  • BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent industry experience
  • A passion for writing robust, intuitive, high-performance code, and being pragmatic about it
  • Good communication skills and the ability to work efficiently with cross functional and geographically dispersed teams
  • Experience with safety critical systems
  • Good understanding of ethernet switching and interaction between OSI layers 1, 2, 3 and 4