Jobs at Aurora

Lead Aurora's media presence in Texas by developing and executing regional media strategy, cultivating reporter relationships, managing on-site media visits, preparing spokespeople, coordinating cross-functional announcements, and creating media materials (press releases, Q&As, talking points) to drive proactive, accurate coverage.

Lead end-to-end strategic sourcing for indirect categories (software/SaaS, professional services, IT, contingent workforce). Develop global sourcing strategies, run RFx, negotiate complex contracts, manage supplier performance and risk, partner with Legal and internal stakeholders, drive procurement process improvements, and leverage ERP/procurement systems for spend management and reporting.

Lead end-to-end strategic sourcing for indirect categories (software/SaaS, IT, professional services, contingent labor). Develop global sourcing strategies, run RFx processes, negotiate complex contracts, manage supplier relationships and KPIs, partner with Legal and cross-functional stakeholders, and drive procurement process improvements and procurement technology usage.

Lead end-to-end strategic sourcing for indirect categories (software/SaaS, professional services, IT, contingent workforce). Develop global sourcing strategies, run RFx processes, negotiate complex agreements, manage supplier relationships and KPIs, partner with Legal and cross-functional stakeholders, drive procurement process improvements, and leverage ERP/procurement systems to track spend and reporting.

Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines, data lake/warehouse infrastructure, and ETL/ELT processes. Work with cloud services and IaC (Terraform), optimize performance/cost, implement monitoring, and ensure data quality, governance, and security while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines, data lake/warehouse infrastructure, and ETL/ELT processes on cloud platforms. Optimize performance, implement monitoring and governance, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to meet data needs.

The role focuses on driving operational excellence in supply chain processes, enhancing data-driven culture, overseeing compliance, and improving workflows.

Lead safety analysis and research at Aurora, applying statistical analysis, probabilistic modeling, and risk assessment to support self-driving technology safety strategies.

Develop and maintain strategies for testing Aurora's Perception subsystem, analyze results, and communicate findings to enhance system performance.

The Internal Communications Lead at Aurora develops strategies to connect employees to the company's mission, manage communication channels, and enhance engagement through internal communications programs.

Lead operational excellence in the Global Purchasing and Supply Chain organization by documenting processes, driving automation, and ensuring SOX compliance while fostering cross-functional collaboration and leveraging advanced data analytics.

The Internal Communications Lead will develop strategies to engage employees, advise stakeholders on communications, and manage internal channels, enhancing employee connection to the company's mission.

Lead development and continuous improvement of software quality processes aligned to ASPICE and ISO 26262. Plan and execute internal audits, manage audit findings and corrective actions, analyze quality issues and verification escapes, automate quality metrics reporting, and present analyses to engineering and leadership while mentoring teams.

Develop and integrate embedded software with Aurora's autonomy stack. Work on vehicle platform commands, fault and health monitoring, embedded simulation and HIL testing, and build tools to automate control-subsystem testing and analysis in Linux-based environments.

Lead coordination and delivery of quarterly software releases for the Aurora Driver. Own release planning, feature scope, cross-functional dependency management, risk escalation, and performance metrics. Communicate status and tradeoffs to senior leadership, partner with Data Science, Engineering, Product Ops, and Business teams, and champion product/program best practices while mentoring junior managers.

Design and build scalable, high-availability micro-backend services in AWS to monitor and manage an autonomous vehicle fleet. Partner with software, hardware, infra, product, and operations teams to design fleet management and vehicle communication systems, establish reliable infrastructure, and mentor peers while owning product lifecycle end-to-end.

Develop scalable backend systems for map orchestration, collaborate with teams, troubleshoot issues, and handle large-scale data pipelines.

Lead supply chain readiness for hardware programs, plan and execute purchasing, supplier quality, and supplier resilience from prototype to high-volume manufacturing. Build metrics and dashboards, run program meetings, present executive summaries, manage timelines/dependencies/risks, and drive process automation and data integrity across cross-functional teams.

Design, develop, and deploy state-of-the-art perception ML models (detection, tracking, action recognition, semantic understanding) for real-time autonomous vehicles. Optimize models for degraded sensors and long-range sensing, scale ML pipelines, and collaborate across teams to debug and productionize robust perception systems using large-scale datasets.

Design and implement scalable, highly concurrent micro-backend services in AWS to manage and monitor an autonomous vehicle fleet. Partner with product, hardware, and infrastructure teams to build fleet management, vehicle communication, and high-availability systems, while mentoring engineers and driving the product lifecycle end-to-end.