2 months ago
Base Salary
$171k - $303k/yr
Responsibilities
- Partner with engineering teams on security fixes and secure design improvements while contributing code directly.
- Investigate findings, assess their practical impact, and provide evidence and potential solutions to responsible teams.
- Build and maintain the application security program and its tooling, using AI to scale investigations while validating results.
- Develop automation and integrate preventative security controls into the software development lifecycle.
- Threat model systems, explain technical risks and tradeoffs, and collaborate with engineers on practical solutions.
Requirements
- Substantial experience building and maintaining production software with strong programming, debugging, and system design skills.
- Ability to investigate unfamiliar codebases, understand system behavior, and reason about potential misuse.
- Experience delivering technical work across teams in a large or complex engineering organization.
- Experience building developer tooling, automation, or software development lifecycle integrations.
- Practical experience using AI for technical work, with the judgment to validate outputs and explain the reasoning behind them.
- Experience with C, C++, Go, Python, JavaScript, and web frameworks.
- Preferred experience with application or product security, including code audits, secure design reviews, threat modeling, or vulnerability investigation.
- Preferred experience building or maintaining cloud and embedded systems, safety-critical or autonomous vehicle software, or production AI-assisted security tooling.
Benefits
- Hybrid work environment requiring at least three days per week in the office.
- Eligibility for an annual bonus, equity compensation, and benefits.
Tech Stack
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About Aurora
Aurora builds the Aurora Driver, a self-driving system for heavy-duty trucks, and offers it as a driver-as-a-service to freight carriers. The company partners with truck OEMs and logistics networks, including Volvo Trucks, PACCAR, FedEx, Uber Freight, Werner, Schneider, and Ryder, to commercialize autonomous freight hauling. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Aurora is a public company trading on Nasdaq under the symbol AUR.