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Senior Software Engineer, Behavior Simulation

Aurora
Mountain View, California
Full Time
Posted October 14, 2025
$139k - $223k
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Job Description

The Senior Software Engineer at Aurora will develop and maintain simulation engines and tools for autonomous vehicle systems, focusing on realistic behavior modeling, motion planning, and offline testing across various components of the autonomy system.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop simulation software using C 17 and Python following modern best practices.
  • Design and implement simulation and offline testing engines and tools.
  • Create and extend software components related to world entities, behavior modeling, pathfinding, road networks, collision detection, vehicle control, and dynamics.
  • Contribute to engineering best practices within a large and complex codebase.
  • Tackle end-to-end simulation and behavior evaluation challenges across various autonomy system areas such as motion planning, mapping, and localization.

Requirements

  • Develop software in standard C (including modern C 11, 14, 17, 20) and Python, using modern best practices.
  • Have good development skills in C, including modern C 11, 14, 17, 20.
  • Possess a BS or higher degree in robotics, computer science, software development, mathematics, or a similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Contribute to engineering best practices on a large and complex code base.
  • Design and develop critical simulation and offline testing engines and tools related to autonomous systems.
  • Create and extend software for world entities, adaptive behavior, pathfinding, road networks, computational mathematics, spatial queries, collision detection, vehicle control, and vehicle dynamics.
  • Understand common software performance issues and design tradeoffs.

Benefits & Perks

Compensation/salary range: $139,000 - $223,000 per year
Annual bonus
Equity compensation
Benefits (unspecified)

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