Aurora Innovation
Robotics · Autonomous trucks
- HQ
- Palo Alto, US
- Founded
- 2016
- Website
- aurora.tech
Robotics · Autonomous trucks
Aurora Innovation currently has 19 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles, 53%, are focused on agents, with post-training and application roles also present. The company is primarily hiring for engineering positions. Recent hiring activity shows a significant increase, with 7 new AI roles posted in the last 30 days, a 133% rise compared to the previous 30-day period.
Currently tracking 10 active AI roles, down 36% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $112k–$303k (avg $201k).
Aurora Innovation currently has 20 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Staff Product Program Manager (6), Applied Researcher (4), Staff Software Engineer, Deep Learning Acceleration (3), Machine Learning Engineering TL, Behavior Planning (2), Behavior Planning Software Engineer. Most positions are in Engineering and Research.
Aurora Innovation's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (45%), post-training (25%), serving infrastructure (15%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Aurora Innovation is hiring AI talent in: United States (13 roles).
Job postings at Aurora Innovation most frequently mention: Machine Learning, Autonomous Driving, Planning & Reasoning, Foundation Models, System Design.
In the past 30 days, Aurora Innovation has posted 6 new AI-related roles. That is a -25% change versus the prior 30 days (8 → 6).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Applied Researcher Research role focused on Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, exploring and rebuilding architectures to address failure points in current state-of-the-art models for robotics applications. Requires PhD and expertise in VLM/VLA, with a focus on practical implementation and architectural creativity. | Post-train | 9 |
| Applied Researcher Research role focused on Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, exploring and rebuilding architectures to address failure points in current state-of-the-art models for robotics applications. Requires PhD and expertise in VLM/VLA, with a focus on practical implementation and architectural creativity. | Post-train | 9 |
| Applied Researcher Research role focused on Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, exploring and rebuilding architectures to address failure points in current state-of-the-art models for robotics applications. Requires PhD and expertise in VLM/VLA, with a focus on practical implementation and architectural creativity. | Post-train | 9 |
| Applied Researcher Research role focused on Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, exploring and rebuilding architectures to address failure points in current state-of-the-art models for robotics applications. Requires PhD and expertise in VLM/VLA, with a focus on practical implementation and architectural creativity. | Post-train | 9 |
| Machine Learning Engineering TL, Behavior Planning Machine Learning Engineering TL for Behavior Planning at Aurora Innovation. This role involves defining the architecture of onboard planning models using Imitation Learning and Reinforcement Learning, building a next-generation simulation engine with foundation models, and developing critic models for evaluating driving behavior. The position requires bridging research and production by deploying models on real vehicles and mentoring junior engineers. Requires MS/PhD or equivalent experience, 8+ years in ML, hands-on IL/RL experience, distributed training, Python, and PyTorch/ML frameworks with Transformers/Diffusion Models. | AgentData | 9 |
| Machine Learning Engineering TL, Behavior Planning Machine Learning Engineering TL for Behavior Planning at Aurora Innovation. This role involves defining the architecture of onboard planning models using Imitation Learning and Reinforcement Learning, building a next-generation simulation engine with foundation models, and developing critic models for evaluating driving behavior. The position requires bridging research and production by deploying models on real vehicles and mentoring junior engineers. Requires MS/PhD or equivalent experience, 8+ years in ML, hands-on IL/RL experience, distributed training, Python, and PyTorch/ML frameworks with Transformers/Diffusion Models. | AgentData | 9 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Online Maps Staff Software Engineer for Online Maps at Aurora Innovation, focusing on developing and implementing perception algorithms and deep learning models to improve the Aurora Driver's ability to navigate in real-time world changes. The role involves building infrastructure and tests for production deployment and ensuring map data is ready for operation without a vehicle operator. | Post-train | 8 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Deep Learning Acceleration Staff Software Engineer focused on Deep Learning Acceleration for Aurora's Autonomous Vehicle (AV) systems. The role involves performance analysis and optimization of deep learning networks for both onboard vehicle deployment and large-scale data center training. Responsibilities include optimizing software architecture, system performance, and latency, troubleshooting using profiling and roofline models, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Requires strong CUDA, C++, Python skills, high-performance computing experience, and proficiency with deep learning frameworks and performance analysis tools. | Serve | 7 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Deep Learning Acceleration Staff Software Engineer focused on Deep Learning Acceleration for Aurora's Autonomous Vehicle (AV) systems. The role involves performance analysis and optimization of deep learning networks for both onboard vehicle deployment and large-scale data center training. Responsibilities include optimizing software architecture, system performance, and latency, troubleshooting using profiling and roofline models, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Requires strong CUDA, C++, Python skills, high-performance computing experience, and proficiency with deep learning frameworks and performance analysis tools. | Serve | 7 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Deep Learning Acceleration Staff Software Engineer focused on Deep Learning Acceleration for Aurora's Autonomous Vehicle (AV) systems. Responsibilities include performance analysis and optimization of deep learning networks for both onboard vehicle deployment and large-scale data center training, troubleshooting performance issues using profiling and roofline model techniques, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance self-driving technology efficiency. | Serve | 7 |
| Staff Product Program Manager Staff Product Program Manager for Aurora's Behavior Planning team, focusing on developing algorithms for safe and comfortable trajectories for autonomous vehicles. This role involves deep partnership with engineering leads, planning and prioritizing development, managing complex projects, and understanding technical implementations at an architectural level. | Agent | 7 |
| Staff Product Program Manager Staff Product Program Manager for Aurora's Behavior Planning team, focusing on developing algorithms for safe and comfortable trajectories for autonomous vehicles. This role involves deep partnership with engineering leads, planning and prioritizing development, managing complex projects, and understanding technical implementations at an architectural level. | Agent | 7 |
| Behavior Planning Software Engineer Software Engineer for the Behavior Planning Team at Aurora Innovation, focusing on developing real-time algorithms for self-driving vehicle trajectories, integrating motion planning with machine learning for verifiable AI systems, and implementing production-grade software. Requires strong programming skills in Python/C++ and experience with motion planning algorithms. | Agent | 7 |
| Staff Safety Data Scientist, Safety Analysis Staff Safety Data Scientist role at Aurora Innovation focused on leading critical safety research for autonomous vehicles. The role involves applying advanced statistical and probabilistic modeling to analyze safety data, inform hardware/software decisions, and develop leading indicators for future performance. Responsibilities include developing quantitative data analytics, authoring technical analyses, designing data collection, and mentoring junior team members. Requires a strong background in risk and hazard assessment, data science techniques, and excellent communication skills. | Ship | 7 |
| Senior IT Applications Engineer This role focuses on managing and automating Aurora's core SaaS ecosystem, including collaboration and incident management platforms. It involves setting technical strategy, building integrations, and driving the adoption of Enterprise AI tools. The role requires strong scripting, API integration, and identity management experience, with a focus on improving operational efficiency and unlocking new capabilities through technology. | — | 5 |
| Senior IT Applications Engineer This role focuses on managing and automating Aurora's core SaaS ecosystem, including collaboration and incident management platforms. It involves setting technical strategy, building integrations, and driving the adoption of Enterprise AI tools to improve operational efficiency and unlock new capabilities. The role requires strong skills in IT applications, integrations, automation, and scripting, with a focus on enterprise-level solutions. | — | 5 |
| Senior Data Analyst, Operations Workforce Strategy This role focuses on workforce strategy within operations, involving forecasting, allocation, and optimization of headcount. It requires building financial and operational models, creating dashboards, and analyzing large datasets to identify trends in labor productivity and attrition. The role also involves applying probabilistic modeling, Python-based simulation, and AI to optimize resources and simulate trade-offs. While AI tools are used, the core function is data analysis and modeling for operational planning, not direct AI/ML model development. | — | 5 |
| Senior Staff Product Designer - Customer Experience Senior Staff Product Designer focused on the customer experience for Aurora's autonomous freight operations. This role involves designing digital tools for trucking and logistics companies, managing a product designer, and ensuring intuitive user experiences for high-stakes operational systems. The role emphasizes end-to-end customer journey design and integration into existing ecosystems. | — | 5 |
| Senior Staff Product Designer - Customer Experience Senior Staff Product Designer focused on the customer experience for Aurora's autonomous freight operations. This role involves designing digital tools for trucking and logistics companies, managing one Product Designer, and ensuring the user experience is intuitive and integrated into existing ecosystems. The role requires a strong background in product design, UX research, and managing design teams, with a focus on delivering business impact. | — | 5 |
| Staff Product Program Manager Product Program Manager to define strategy and roadmap for internal applications supporting autonomous vehicle development, focusing on AI/agentic tools to accelerate engineering and operations workflows. | Agent | 5 |
| Staff Product Program Manager Product Program Manager to define strategy and lifecycle for internal applications supporting Autonomy development, focusing on AI/agentic tools and workflows to accelerate engineering and operations. | Agent | 5 |
| Staff Product Program Manager Product Program Manager to define strategy and lifecycle for internal applications supporting Autonomy development, focusing on AI/agentic tools and workflows to accelerate engineering and operations. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior TLM, Test Triage & Analysis Senior Technical Lead Manager (TLM) for Test Triage & Analysis at Aurora Innovation, a self-driving technology company. This role involves managing and scaling a team of triage analysts, defining and improving team processes, and driving the strategy for AI-augmented triage. The goal is to transform reactive manual analysis into a scalable, proactive response framework by implementing automated root cause synthesis and intelligent anomaly detection. The role requires strong leadership, technical depth in complex autonomous or robotics systems, data acumen, process ownership, and cross-functional collaboration. | Eval Gate | 5 |
| Staff Product Program Manager Technical Product/Program Manager to join Aurora’s Product & Program Management team, partnering closely with the Behavior Planning team as well as Software development teams (i.e., Data Engine, Controls, etc.) broadly. The Behavior Planning team is an integral part of Aurora’s Driver team and is responsible for developing the algorithms for selecting safe and comfortable trajectories for the Aurora Driver. | Ship | 5 |
| Staff Digital & Social Media Marketing Manager This role is for a Staff Digital & Social Media Marketing Manager at Aurora Innovation, a self-driving technology company. The manager will lead digital marketing strategies, oversee organic and paid channels, manage social media presence, and utilize AI tools to scale marketing efforts. The role requires extensive experience in digital and social media marketing, strong analytical skills, and the ability to manage cross-functional teams. | — | 5 |
| Director of Product & Engineering Finance This role is for a Director of Product & Engineering Finance at Aurora Innovation, a self-driving technology company. The position focuses on financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and business analytics for software, hardware, supply chain, and manufacturing functions. The ideal candidate will partner with senior leadership, drive strategic initiatives, develop financial models, and optimize capital deployment. While the company works with AI and physical AI, this role is primarily a finance function, with a requirement to drive adoption of AI to enhance FP&A workstreams. | — | 5 |
| Director of Product & Engineering Finance Director of Product & Engineering Finance at Aurora Innovation, a self-driving technology company. This role focuses on financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and business analytics for software, hardware, supply chain, and manufacturing functions. The position requires partnering with senior leadership, driving strategic initiatives, optimizing capital deployment, and improving financial discipline. Experience with AI adoption to enhance FP&A workstreams is desired. | — | 5 |
| Staff Technical Product Operations Manager Staff Technical Product Operations Manager at Aurora Innovation, focused on optimizing Mapping operations and technology for self-driving vehicles. This role involves driving operational alignment, translating inefficiencies into product requirements, leading strategic initiatives, and partnering with engineering on product roadmaps to ensure operational readiness for software development and productionization. Experience with ML or data labeling pipelines is desirable. | — | 5 |
| Staff Software Engineer Staff Backend Software Engineer to join the Aurora Services Engineering team to build and scale fleet management tools for autonomous vehicles. This role involves designing and building backend services for monitoring and managing the fleet, ensuring high availability and reliability, and enabling commercial operations. The engineer will also collaborate with various teams and contribute to team culture. | — | 5 |
| Staff Software Engineer Staff Backend Software Engineer to join the Aurora Services Engineering team to build and scale fleet management tools for autonomous vehicles. This role involves designing and building backend services for terminal operations, fleet monitoring, and real-time vehicle communication, leveraging AI tools for efficiency and feature enhancement. Requires strong backend engineering skills, experience with cloud services, and a focus on high availability and reliability. | — | 5 |
| Strategic Workforce Planning Lead This role focuses on strategic workforce planning, analyzing current capabilities, and forecasting future talent needs based on business strategy. It involves demand and supply forecasting, gap identification (including how AI might change future employee profiles), and partnering with various departments like Finance and Talent Acquisition. The role also includes predictive modeling for business scenarios, developing key workforce metrics, aligning hiring plans with budgets, optimizing resource mix, and identifying critical talent gaps and skill adjacencies, with a specific mention of prioritizing 'emerging' skills like AI proficiency. | — | 5 |
| Strategic Workforce Planning Lead This role focuses on strategic workforce planning, analyzing current capabilities, and forecasting future talent needs based on business strategy. It involves demand and supply forecasting, gap identification (including how AI might change future employee profiles), and partnering with various departments like Finance and Talent Acquisition. The role also includes predictive modeling for business scenarios, developing key workforce metrics, aligning hiring plans with budgets, optimizing resource mix, and identifying critical talent gaps and skill adjacencies, with a specific mention of prioritizing 'emerging' skills like AI proficiency. | — | 5 |
| Strategic Workforce Planning Lead This role focuses on strategic workforce planning, analyzing current capabilities, and forecasting future talent needs based on business strategy. It involves demand and supply forecasting, gap identification (including how AI might change future employee profiles), and partnering with various departments like Finance and Talent Acquisition. The role also includes predictive modeling for business scenarios, developing key workforce metrics, aligning hiring plans with budgets, optimizing resource mix, and identifying critical talent gaps and skill adjacencies, with a specific mention of prioritizing 'emerging' skills like AI proficiency. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Behavior Planning Software Engineer for Behavior Planning team at Aurora, focusing on developing real-time algorithms for self-driving vehicle trajectories, production-grade software, and analyzing data to train/evaluate ML models and improve data pipelines. Requires C++ experience and motion planning or state estimation algorithm design. | Agent | 5 |
| Staff Product Designer, Aurora Ops Experience Staff Product Designer for Aurora's Operations Experience Product Design Team, focusing on the Command Center overseer experience for monitoring and managing autonomous truck activity. The role involves end-to-end design, identifying pain points, creating prototypes, and collaborating with engineering and product teams to ship solutions. Desirable qualifications include experience in high-stakes environments and with generative AI tools. | — | 5 |
| Staff Product Designer, Aurora Ops Experience Staff Product Designer for Aurora's Operations Experience Product Design Team, focusing on the Command Center overseer experience for monitoring and managing autonomous truck activity. The role involves end-to-end design, identifying pain points, creating prototypes, and collaborating with engineering and product teams to ship solutions. Desirable qualifications include experience in high-stakes environments and with generative AI tools. | — | 5 |
| Staff Technical Product & Program Manager, Architecture & Fallback Strategy Technical Product & Program Manager for Architecture & Fallback Strategy at Aurora Innovation, focusing on defining and executing architectural proposals for future hardware platforms and planning delivery of future fallback systems for autonomous driving technology. Requires experience in autonomous systems, robotics, or embedded systems, with a strong technical aptitude and project management skills. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer II, Pipeline Automation & Acceleration Software Engineer II focused on pipeline automation and acceleration for onboard and off-board autonomy software. The role involves developing tools for development speed, introspection, visualization, performance analysis, and optimizing autonomy systems. Requires experience with cloud automation, data/test automation, Python/C++, Linux, and cloud platforms/storages. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer Staff Software Engineer to join the Core Services team at Aurora, focusing on building a new asset management solution to scale the autonomous vehicle fleet. The role involves designing and implementing complex backend microservices for fleet management, vehicle communication, and operational support within an AWS cloud environment. This position requires extensive experience in backend service development, web communication protocols, and building safety-critical systems. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Maps Infra Software Engineer role focused on building and maintaining scalable backend infrastructure and data processing pipelines for a mapping system (Aurora Atlas). The role involves designing, developing, and maintaining systems for storing and serving map data, establishing testing and performance optimization practices, and collaborating with internal/external customers. Requires strong C++ and distributed systems experience, with cloud-native technologies knowledge. Geospatial data or mapping systems experience is desirable. | — | 0 |
| Staff Security Engineer, Enterprise Security Staff Security Engineer focused on defining and championing enterprise security architecture strategy, roadmap, and operating models. The role involves developing reference architectures, technical standards, and guiding secure solution design across various domains, including endpoint, network, infrastructure, and data protection, with a focus on Zero Trust principles. Key responsibilities include translating governance and business priorities into scalable technical guidance, participating in architecture reviews, and advising on long-term strategy for enterprise security capabilities, including emerging needs in AI security and automation. | — | 0 |
| Staff Security Engineer, Enterprise Security Staff Security Engineer focused on defining and championing enterprise security architecture strategy, roadmap, and target-state operating model. This role involves developing reference architectures, technical standards, and guiding secure solutions for workforce platforms, enterprise systems, and internal infrastructure using Zero Trust principles. The engineer will also provide architectural oversight for major initiatives, identify gaps, and shape long-term strategy including emerging needs related to AI security. | — | 0 |
| Staff Security Engineer, Enterprise Security This role focuses on defining and championing enterprise security architecture strategy, roadmap, and operating models. The Staff Security Engineer will develop reference architectures, technical standards, and guidance for various security domains, including endpoint, network, infrastructure, data protection, and security tooling. They will translate security strategy and governance requirements into scalable technical architecture, participate in architecture review boards, and guide secure solution design using Zero Trust principles. The role also involves identifying architectural gaps, shaping long-term strategy for enterprise security capabilities (including AI security), and supporting security tooling strategy. Collaboration with various security and IT teams is crucial, as is establishing and maintaining design documentation and aligning architecture to frameworks like NIST CSF and SOC 2. The position requires extensive experience in information security and enterprise architecture, with a strong strategic mindset and problem-solving abilities. | — | 0 |
| Truck Operations Specialist This role involves piloting autonomous semi-trucks for testing and providing real-time feedback to engineers to improve the self-driving technology. It requires commercial driving experience, a Class A CDL, and the ability to monitor the autonomous system during operation. | — | 0 |
| Director - Security Product Management - One Tech Director of Product Management for IT and Security products at Aurora Innovation, focusing on building and maintaining product roadmaps, managing requirements, and ensuring alignment with IT accuracy, speed, and security standards throughout product lifecycles. The role involves managing an internal team, influencing cross-functional initiatives, and supporting Aurora Driver, Cloud, and Enterprise systems. Requires strong understanding of automotive cybersecurity standards and experience in product management for complex systems. | — | 0 |
| Senior Staff Lidar Systems Architect Senior Staff Lidar Systems Architect responsible for defining the next-generation architecture of high-performance lidar systems, bridging high-level requirements and hardware implementation. Focus on electrical and firmware partitioning, interfaces between photonic modules and supporting systems, optimizing for performance, scalability, and automotive reliability. | — | 0 |
| Senior Staff Lidar Systems Architect Senior Staff Lidar Systems Architect role focused on defining the next-generation architecture of high-performance lidar systems, bridging high-level requirements with hardware implementation. Responsibilities include electrical and firmware partitioning, defining interfaces between photonic modules and supporting systems, and optimizing for performance, scalability, and automotive reliability. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Connectivity (C++) Staff Software Engineer focused on the vehicle connectivity stack for Aurora's self-driving vehicles, ensuring reliable, observable, and secure communication between vehicles and the cloud. This role involves defining architecture, implementing low-latency frameworks, and supporting field operations, with a strong emphasis on C++ and networking protocols. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Connectivity Staff Software Engineer focused on vehicle connectivity and communication architecture for self-driving vehicles, ensuring reliable, observable, and secure vehicle-to-cloud communications. This role involves designing and implementing low-latency communication frameworks, addressing runtime concerns, and supporting field testing. | — | 0 |
| Staff Security Technical Program Manager Staff Technical Program Manager to lead complex security initiatives across multiple engineering teams and security pillars, focusing on program governance, execution, and cross-team coordination for Aurora's self-driving technology. | — | 0 |