Software Engineer, Behavior Planning

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Aurora's mission is to deliver the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly.

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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 Software Engineer to join our Behavior Planning Team

In this role, you will

• Develop real-time algorithms for selecting safe and comfortable trajectories for a self-driving vehicle
• Design and implement production-grade software for the Aurora Driver
• Analyze large-scale real-world data to train and evaluate machine learning models and improve data pipelines supporting algorithm development.
• Design metric suites and testing workflows for rapid iteration on algorithms

 Required Qualifications

• BS, MS, or PhD in Robotics, Machine Learning, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science or related field
• 4+ years of applied industry experience programming and designing software in C++, especially in low latency or real-time environments
• Experience in designing, building, and productionizing motion planning algorithms (cost function design, optimization and sampling-based techniques) or state estimation algorithms

Desirable Qualifications

• Expertise with GPU or ML toolkits such as CUDA, PyTorch, TensorFlow, and/or  TensorRT
• Experience delivering solutions in robotics applications to production.

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