About the position
Aurora's mission is to deliver the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly to make transportation safer, increasingly accessible, and more reliable and efficient than ever before. 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. At Aurora, you'll solve massively complex problems alongside other passionate, smart people, growing as an expert while broadening your field of knowledge. For Aurora's latest news, visit aurora.tech or follow us on LinkedIn. 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 Motion Planning Software Engineer to support and scale efforts for our Behavior Planning Team.
Responsibilities
- Develop real-time algorithms for selecting safe and comfortable trajectories for a self-driving vehicle
- Design and implement production-grade software for the Aurora Driver
- Design metric suites and testing workflows for rapid iteration on algorithms
- Provide technical leadership for the architectural elements of online and offline systems for evaluating good trajectories.
Requirements
- BS, MS, or PhD in Robotics, Machine Learning, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science or related field
- 3+ years of applied industry experience demonstrating strong programming and software design skills in C++, especially in low latency or real-time environments
- Experience in designing, building, and productionizing motion planning algorithms (cost function design, optimization and sampling-based techniques), state estimation algorithms, or statistical techniques
Nice-to-haves
- Expertise with GPU or ML toolkits such as CUDA, PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, and/or TensorRT
Benefits
- Annual bonus
- Equity compensation
- Health benefits
