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Staff Software Engineer - Onboard Networking

Aurora
Mountain View, California
Full Time
Posted December 11, 2025
$189k - $303k
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Job Description

The role involves integrating and optimizing hardware and software components for Aurora's self-driving vehicle platforms, including sensor integration, network architecture, performance tuning, and supporting fleet operations to advance autonomous mobility technology.

Key Responsibilities

  • Perform bring-up of new vehicle platforms and define vehicle compute and network architecture
  • Integrate new sensors and embedded devices, building interfaces for autonomy software
  • Address vehicle-specific concerns related to runtime, hardware health, and networking
  • Evolve fleet into a full service platform with integrated metrics and monitoring
  • Optimize performance of onboard hardware resources such as Network, CPU, and GPU
  • Define and implement precision time protocol architecture across the network
  • Collaborate with autonomy engineers to meet security, integrity, and latency requirements for sensor data
  • Utilize hardware-in-the-loop testing infrastructure to verify onboard code and profile performance
  • Provide engineering support for field testing and fleet operations

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree, Master's degree, or PhD in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.
  • Strong programming skills in C.
  • Experience working with networking protocols, such as TCP, UDP, CAN bus protocols, RTP, gRPC, TFTP, HTTP, 802.1Q VLANs, Linux networking, and troubleshooting.
  • Ability to write robust, intuitive, high-performance code and be pragmatic about it.
  • Ability 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.
  • Experience with performing bring-up of new vehicle platforms, including defining vehicle compute and network architecture, integrating new sensors and embedded devices, and building interfaces for autonomy software.
  • Experience addressing vehicle-specific concerns such as vehicle stack configuration, networking stack configuration, performance optimization, hardware health monitoring, and networking security.
  • Experience evolving a fleet of vehicles into a full service platform with integrated metrics and monitoring.
  • Experience optimizing performance on Network, CPU, GPU, and other limited onboard hardware resources.
  • Experience working with HIL hardware-in-the-loop test infrastructure to automatically verify onboard code changes and profile performance.
  • Providing engineering support for field testing and fleet operations.

Benefits & Perks

Compensation/salary range: $189,000 - $303,000
Annual bonus
Equity compensation
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