Aurora Innovation is hiring a Technical Lead Engineering Manager to join our Autonomy Integration Team. You will be responsible for deploying the Aurora Driver on partner vehicle platforms, ensuring system safety and reliability, and leading a team of engineers.
What You'll Do
- Interface with ECUs to report state and control vehicle platforms, detect error conditions, and initiate behavioral responses.
- Build and maintain tests and test infrastructure to validate integration onto target platforms.
- Ensure system integration with the base vehicle platform has complete redundancy and no single point failure modes.
- Map Aurora Driver software components to hardware components to meet hardware constraints.
- Monitor onboard system performance metrics and identify optimization hot spots.
- Maintain onboard orchestration of launching software components.
- Optimize speed and reliability of primary product functions from key-on to trip launch, completion, and re-launch.
- Enhance speed and reliability of secondary product functions like software upgrades and maintenance.
- Lead a team of 10-20 engineers to develop plans achieving company objectives.
- Decide on technical approaches while trading off against competing efforts and value.
- Direct execution of programs staffed by internal and external team members.
- Identify technical and schedule risks and generate solution ideas to reduce risk.
What We're Looking For
- 8+ years experience in autonomous vehicles, robotics, aerospace, or complex autonomy systems.
- 3+ years in a formal management or TLM role.
- Proven track record integrating complex software stacks onto diverse hardware/embedded platforms.
- Experience building automated test infrastructure for software-in-the-loop (SIL) and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) integrations.
- History of successfully navigating technical trade-offs between software, embedded, and hardware challenges.
- Ability to translate vague product goals into concrete technical requirements and execution plans.
Nice to Have
- Strong experience with ECU communication protocols (CAN, Ethernet, etc.) and real-time operating systems (RTOS).
- Familiarity with how onboard systems interact with cloud services for remote human guidance or telemetry.
- Experience in redundancy patterns and fault-tolerant architecture for safety-critical systems.
- Experience working directly with Tier 1 automotive suppliers or OEMs on platform-specific integration.
Team & Environment
You will lead the Autonomy Integration Team, a group of 10-20 engineers. Our culture is built on operating with integrity, setting ambitious goals, and building a collaborative environment where we win together.
Benefits & Compensation
- Salary range: $171k - $247k per year.
- Equity compensation.
- Commitment to safety and inclusion.
Work Mode
This position operates on a hybrid work model.
Aurora considers candidates without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy status, parent or caregiver status, ancestry, political affiliation, veteran and/or military status, physical or mental disability, or any other status protected by federal or state law.
