Senior Staff Engineer, Remote Assist

Aurora hires talented people with diverse backgrounds who are excited about building the future of transportation that will make our roads safer, get crucial goods where they need to go, and make mobility more efficient & accessible for all. We are searching for an exceptional Senior Staff-level Frontend Software Engineer to join the Aurora Services Engineering team and take on a critical role in building Aurora's Remote Assist vehicle management tool.

The Aurora Services Engineering team creates full-stack solutions including backend services, web & mobile applications, and real-time onboard code that enable commercial operation of autonomous vehicle fleets at scale. Our mission is to build the software that will be used daily by human operators to coordinate the commercial side of our platform such as evaluating route feasibility, assigning work to autonomous vehicles, providing remote support, and managing a fleet of vehicles. As Aurora prepares to massively scale its fleet and integrate with partners on an API level, the tools we build are critical to the efficient daily operation of our business.

You will join a Remote Assist team that builds solutions used to manage, monitor and interact with active autonomous vehicles operating on our commercial and development routes. You will add new features to existing products and greenfield new capabilities. Your contributions will have a significant impact on the way commercial fleet operations function at Aurora.

In this role, you will

• Join a team which builds a production app and services for remote assistance software used by Aurora operations today.
• Be the Technical Lead for our Remote Assist frontend application, helping to project manage and level up the skills of junior team members.
• Design complex systems from the ground up, working closely with software, hardware, and infrastructure engineering teams along with other stakeholder teams within Aurora.
• Work with your teammates to adopt new technologies & approaches to frontend development as our stack matures.
• Establish technology and infrastructure to move our initial product to a product at scale with high availability and reliability.
• Collaborate with stakeholders including Security, Product, Design, Safety and Cloud Platform to achieve company milestones.
• Send suggestions and receive updates from vehicles in real time in order to ensure the safe operation of Aurora’s autonomous fleet.
• Contribute to and evolve our team culture around mentorship, feedback, collaboration, and engineering excellence.

You will be a good fit if you have

• Phenomenal communication skills. We build software with people and for people. You know how to write an effective technical spec, provide feedback to others, translate technical concepts into lay terms, and incorporate feedback into your efforts. You value and practice openness, empathy, kindness, and collaboration.
• A preference for action. You will use good judgment to balance speed and quality. You will deliver products that are built in a responsible and sustainable way. You will use a self-starter mentality to thrive in a growing environment where all hands are on deck, and consider no obstacle too big or too small. You will notice where there is a need and will hustle to fill it.
• The drive to make teams stronger. You're excited to work hard and fast to the finish line on new opportunities with a collaborative and integrated team. You will be proactive in engaging conflict with openness, patience and kindness in an environment where it is safe to lean on each other and learn from failures.
• Motivation to own the product lifecycle end to end. You’re happy to engage with our product and design teams and our internal customers to understand their needs and find ways to meet them. You ensure that product development stays on course all the way through release and post-release support.
• Strong frontend engineering skills. We use modern technologies to build our products including JavaScript/TypeScript, React/JS, gRPC, and three.js.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 10 or more years of industry experience.

Desirable experience

• Deep experience architecting React apps focused on visualizing streaming data, with a focus on performance and reliability.
• Strong communication/collaboration skills with leadership, peers, and team members.
• Extensive experience as a technical lead for frontend projects spanning multiple teams.
• Strong track record of effective collaboration with Product, Design, and Cloud Engineering teams.
• Fullstack experience is helpful, not required.
• Real-time systems experience: understanding of latency minimization, data consistency.
• Video streaming application experience: gracefully handling variable frame rates, multiple camera feeds, packet loss, and network degradation.
• 3D visualization using three.js
• Performance analysis and observability using tools like React Profiler, Sentry.
• Experience with fleet management solutions for robots, vehicles, or aerial drones.
• Experience with external customer facing software including production rollout.
• Preference is for candidates who are/will be based in Pittsburgh, PA. We will consider candidates based in San Francisco, CA or Mountain View, CA.

The base range for this position is $191,000 - $306,000. 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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