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Planning & Controls Engineer Aurora
San Francisco, CA

<p>Aurora is a company developing software and hardware for the self-driving vehicle industry.

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Job Description

Aurora Overview

Bringing self-driving vehicles to our roads is the most transformative opportunity of our generation. Aurora is taking a fresh start with the development of self-driving technology, combining excellence in AI, rigorous engineering, and a team with decades of experience building robots that work.

Led by a team of seasoned experts, including three of the world's leaders of self-driving technology, our mission is to deliver the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly. We are designing the software and hardware to power the transportation of our future that will make our roads safer, give more people access to mobility, and reduce congestion and pollution in cities - improving the quality of life for all. The challenge in what we are endeavoring to achieve is transcendent; we are developing perhaps the world's most complex computing system and asking it to perform the task of transporting and keeping safe our most precious asset: human life.

We're looking for people who are as excited as we are to solve these complex problems and make this tremendous impact on our future, and who want to be surrounded by great people while we do it. We are searching for Planning & Controls engineers. He/She will help develop and implement core algorithms for making intelligent driving decisions in complex environments.

Responsibilities

* Develop motion planning algorithms for comfortable and safe trajectories for a self-driving vehicle
* Develop policies and plans to manage multi-actor interactions and plans under uncertainty
* Model vehicle and controller dynamics and use these models to characterize and accelerate controller improvements
* Develop and implement production-grade algorithms.
* Build learning approaches that adapt the above algorithms in the presence of data

Essential

* BS, MS, or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science or related field
* Strong C++ programming and software design skills
* Familiarity with modern planning approaches including randomized search methods and trajectory optimization and modern model predictive control and other advanced control techniques
* Knowledge of machine learning and the interplay between learning and decision making

Desirable

* Experience in designing and building state of the art machine learning algorithms
* Experience with adaptive control, system identification, and statistical and machine learning methods
* Experience with embedded Linux and real-time systems

Working at Aurora

Our work has real purpose. Delivering self-driving will improve lives around the world, expanding access to transportation, revitalizing cities, giving people more time back every day.

We're one team. We're inspired by the challenge of what we're solving and the impact our work will have on society. Our camaraderie is built on respect for our work and the fundamental belief our success will be a result of working together.

The Founding Team

Aurora has assembled the most experienced leadership team in the space. Chris Urmson helped lead Carnegie Mellon's efforts in Darpa's Grand Challenges, then was a founding member of Google's self-driving team. Sterling Anderson worked on the tech at MIT before leading Tesla's Autopilot system. Drew Bagnell, also a Carnegie Mellon alum, is a machine learning expert who helped build Uber's autonomy effort. At Aurora, these three continue to bring experts from all areas of the industry to the team. We are funded by some of Silicon Valley's best venture capital firms, including Greylock and Index Ventures.

About Aurora

<p>Aurora is a company developing software and hardware for the self-driving vehicle industry.

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1880 embarcadero road

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