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. Aurora is delivering 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 is a self-driving system designed to operate multiple vehicle types, from freight-hauling semi-trucks to ride-hailing passenger vehicles, and underpins Aurora Horizon and Aurora Connect, its driver-as-a-service products for trucking and ride-hailing. Aurora is working with industry leaders across the transportation ecosystem, including Toyota, FedEx, Volvo Trucks, PACCAR, Uber, Uber Freight, U.S. Xpress, Werner, Covenant, Schneider, and Ryder. We are searching for a Staff Software Engineer in the Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) Platform team. The team is responsible for designing and maintaining the HIL infrastructure to accelerate development, automated testing and deployment of Aurora software.
Responsibilities
- Write high-quality, highly testable code in a fast-paced environment using Modern C++
- Create real-time software modules to induce and verify fault conditions in software modules
- Implement high-throughput, real-time sensor playback mechanisms to reproduce complex real-world scenarios
- Contribute to the development of scalable and robust automated testing framework
- Contribute to engineering best practices in a large and complex code base
- Support the overall V&V of the Aurora Driver
- Collaborate with internal teams such as Deployment, Embedded, Perception and vehicle subsystems
- Contribute to the strategy of hardware-based testing of the Aurora Driver software
Requirements
- Strong software development skills using modern C++ (11, 14, 17, 20)
- Experience writing high-quality, highly testable code in a fast-paced environment
- Experience working with any one of the following - Camera systems, Lidar or Radar
- Experience debugging complex hardware/software systems and interactions
- Experience designing high performance software infrastructure
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field
- Minimum 5+ years of professional experience
- C++ development in large codebases
- Real-time software development
- Linux fundamentals and system architecture knowledge
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with CANBus architecture
- Experience working on Sensor drivers
- Experience with real-time simulation
- Experience with the Go Programming language
Benefits
- Annual bonus
- Equity compensation
- Comprehensive benefits package
