Staff Software Engineer - Vehicle Platforms

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Job Summary:

Aurora is on a mission to deliver the benefits of self-driving technology safely and efficiently. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer - Vehicle Platforms to define vehicle architectures, integrate sensors, and optimize performance for their autonomous vehicle systems.

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

• Work with autonomy engineers to meet latency requirements for sensor data

• Utilize HIL (hardware-in-the-loop) test infrastructure to automatically verify onboard code changes and profile performance

• Provide engineering support for field testing and fleet operations

Qualifications:

Required:

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent industry experience

• 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 for writing robust, intuitive, high-performance code, and being pragmatic about it

• A passion to work at the hardware/software interface

• Ability to navigate and work effectively in large codebases

• Good communication skills and the ability to work efficiently with cross functional and geographically dispersed teams

Preferred:

• Experience working with various sensors, e.g. lidars, radars, cameras, audio, etc.

• Experience with performance evaluation and optimization.

• Hardware health monitoring frameworks

• Designing and understanding complex software systems and interplay between system components

• Time sensitive networking protocols, e.g. PTP, gPTP, etc.

• Experience with safety critical systems

• CCNA/CCNP/JNCIP or equivalent networking industry experience

• Good understanding of ethernet switching and interaction between OSI layers 1, 2, 3 and 4

• Linux network configuration and troubleshooting

Company:

Aurora is building self-driving technology to operate multiple vehicle types, from freight-hauling trucks to ride-hailing passenger ones. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Public Company. Aurora has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.