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 Frontend Software Engineer - Simulation.

In this role, you will

 - Be integral to the safety and validation of our vehicles and accelerating autonomy development

 - Build intuitive and interactive frontend components and user experiences for our users creating and visualizing simulation scenarios

 - Develop innovative solutions using internal/external tools to help users increase the quality, breadth, and quantity of simulations

 - Learn high level simulation domain topics

 - Collaborate with other web focused teams to share knowledge, further standards, and build shared libraries

 - Work across a diverse teams of web application engineers, product and UX designers, simulation engineers, autonomy developers, and autonomy test developers

Optionally also:

 - Build and integrate scalable services to load and process simulation, map, and autonomy data

 - Utilize and contribute to core 4D web visualization libraries to interactively create simulation scenarios

We develop and maintain interactive web applications and services for creating, visualizing, and QA’ing high quality simulation scenarios at scale. Our team plays a pivotal role in ensuring Aurora’s autonomy software can be developed safely and quickly in a broad variety of scenarios.

Required Qualifications 

 - Have a strong foundation in modern JavaScript frameworks/libraries and at least a minimal understanding of how backend technologies fit in (we use React, Mobx/MST, MUI, styled-components, TypeScript, Three.js, REST, gRPC, Python/Flask, Kubernetes, and AWS - these are not all required!)

 - Take pride in delivering a polished, intuitive, and engaging user experience and outstanding customer service

 - Use good judgment to balance speed, quality, and scalability in delivering products responsibly

 - Thrive on exploring new technologies, welcome new challenges, learn from failures, and seek out candid feedback for continuous improvement

 - Take ownership of feature development and understanding the domain they operate in

 - Contribute to maintaining and evolving our culture of engaging others with openness, patience, empathy, and mutual respect

Desirable Qualifications

Experience with the following technologies is valued, but not strictly required. We focus on growing as a team, and will help each other learn.

 - TypeScript

 - Python

 - Fullstack development and cloud infrastructure (we use Flask, NGINX, Kubernetes/Docker, and AWS)

 - Experience in UX, prototyping, design (we use Figma and Lucid)

 - Data visualization, 3D graphics, linear algebra, statistics (we use Three.js)

 - Modern C++, WebAssembly, PyBind

 - Other web communication standards/libraries like gRPC, GraphQL, WebSockets, or WebRTC

Who are we looking for?

Skilled software engineers with a passion for web development, user experience, visualizations, learning new technologies, taking on exciting challenges, and working with others. An all around good human that openly shares their knowledge and communicates clearly, concisely, and respectfully. Someone that believes in our company mission and values, and would like to play an outsized role in ensuring that our commercial launch is delivered safely and quickly.

What do we offer?

In addition to our company values and restaurant caliber lunches, we:

 - Solve interesting challenges in building and scaling sim scenario creation tools, visualizations, workflows, services, and processes

 - Have opportunities to explore beyond standard frontend single page applications with work on the backend, services, and 3D visualizations, as well as many related technologies

 - Provide a safe environment to learn and ask questions

 - Have the privilege to work closely alongside highly engaged and talented users and engineers from many domains

 - Are given the flexibility to work from home near one of our many offices

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