Senior Software Engineer - Visualization Applications

 

Who We Are

Aurora (Nasdaq: AUR) is delivering the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly. Founded in 2017 by experts in the self-driving industry, Aurora is revolutionizing transportation – making it safer, increasingly accessible, and more reliable and efficient than ever before. Its flagship product, the Aurora Driver, is a platform that brings together software, hardware, and data services, to autonomously operate passenger vehicles, light commercial vehicles, and heavy-duty trucks. Aurora is partnered with industry leaders across the transportation ecosystem including Toyota, Volvo, PACCAR, Uber, Uber Freight, FedEx, and U.S. Express. Aurora tests its vehicles in the Bay Area, Pittsburgh, and Texas and has offices in those areas as well as in Bozeman, MT; Seattle, WA; Louisville, CO; and Wixom, MI. To learn more, visit www.aurora.tech.

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 Senior Frontend Engineer to join Aurora’s Simulation Apps team to build cutting-edge web applications and services for creating, visualizing, and editing simulation scenarios.

The Role

We develop and maintain interactive web applications and services for creating, visualizing, and QA’ing high quality simulation scenarios at scale. Our team plays a pivotal role in ensuring Aurora’s autonomy software can be developed safely and quickly in a broad variety of scenarios.

In this role you will

• Be integral to the safety and validation of our vehicles and accelerating autonomy development
• Build intuitive and interactive frontend components and user experiences for creating and visualizing simulation scenarios
• Own large cross functional feature development
• Develop innovative solutions and employ internal/external tools to help users increase the quality, quantity, and breadth of simulations
• Collaborate with other web focused teams to share knowledge, further standards, and build shared libraries
• Work across diverse teams of web application engineers, product and UX designers, simulation engineers, autonomy developers, and autonomy test developers
• Learn high level simulation domain topics
• Build and integrate scalable services to load and process simulation, map, and autonomy data
• Utilize and contribute to core 4D web visualization libraries to interactively create simulation scenarios

Who are we looking for?

Skilled software engineers with a passion for web development, user experience, visualizations, learning new technologies, taking on exciting challenges, and working with others. An all around good human that openly shares their knowledge and communicates clearly, concisely, and respectfully. Someone that believes in our company mission and values, and would like to play an outsized role in ensuring that our commercial launch is delivered safely and quickly.

Required Qualifications 

• 5+ years of industry experience with a degree in computer science (or equivalent working experience)
• Strong foundation in modern JavaScript frameworks/libraries (we use Typescript, React, Mobx/MST, MUI, Emotion, ReactQuery, WebgRPC - these are not all required but should have experience with similar frameworks and libraries)
• At least a minimal understanding of how backend technologies fit in (we use REST, gRPC, Python/Flask, Kubernetes, and AWS - these are not all required!)
• Experience fully owning large cross functional feature development from building knowledge of the domain, to requirements and design, through implementation and maintenance.
• Take pride in delivering a reliable, polished, intuitive, and engaging user experience and outstanding customer service
• Excellent judgment in making tradeoffs to balance speed, quality, and scalability while delivering products responsibly. Value iterative development and unit/integration testing.
• Must thrive on stepping outside your comfort zone and exploring new technologies, welcome new challenges, learn from failures, and seek out candid feedback for continuous improvement
• Contribute to maintaining and evolving culture of engaging others with openness, patience, empathy, and mutual respect

Desirable Qualifications

• TypeScript, Modern C++, WebAssembly, PyBind, Python
• Fullstack development and cloud infrastructure (we use Flask, NGINX, Kubernetes/Docker, and AWS)
• Experience in UX, prototyping, design (we use Figma and Lucid)
• Data visualization, 3D graphics, linear algebra, statistics (we use Three.js)
• Other web communication standards/libraries like gRPC, GraphQL, WebSockets, or WebRTC

What do we offer?

In addition to our company values and restaurant caliber lunches, we:

• Solve interesting challenges in building and scaling sim scenario creation tools, visualizations, workflows, services, and processes
• Have opportunities to explore beyond standard frontend single page applications with work on the backend, services, and 3D visualizations, as well as many related technologies
• Provide a safe environment to learn and ask questions
• Have the privilege to work closely alongside highly engaged and talented users and engineers from many domains

Pay Range 

The base range for this position is $168,000 - $252,000.  Aurora’s pay ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, the successful candidate’s starting base pay will be determined based on factors including job-related skills, experience, qualifications, relevant education or training, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future. The successful candidate will also be eligible for an annual bonus, equity compensation, and benefits.

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