Staff Security Software Engineer
$220k/y-$350k/y
a day ago
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OnsiteFull-timeSenior
Summary
Aurora is seeking a Staff Security Software Engineer to join their team in San Francisco, CA. The role involves designing and developing security components for their autonomous vehicle platform.
About the Role
As a Staff Security Software Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and developing new security components, embedding security within autonomy frameworks, and leading integration efforts with partner teams. You will also guide and mentor engineers while ensuring successful security integration into the Aurora Driver platform.
About You
Required:
- Familiar with C++17 and STL/golang.
- Understand and explain autonomous vehicle security concepts.
- Able to learn and create new C++ frameworks.
- Translate product requirements into code independently.
- Able to write high quality production code, unit tests, integration tests.
- Able to debug across module boundaries.
- Familiarity with automotive protocols and security standards.
- Experience building and evaluating threat models.
- Familiarity with and ability to implement best practices related to cryptographic protocols, infrastructure and network security.
- Ability to translate company goals into product requirements.
- Able to lead a team and organize projects in order to deliver desired outcomes.
- Able to work cross-functionally with other teams.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in a security-specific or security-adjacent industry.
- Minimum 2 years of experience in the robotics or automotive industry or equivalent.
Preferred:
- Experience evaluating the security of software and services.
- Foundational knowledge of embedded firmware security and hardware security, preferably in the robotics or automotive space.
- Familiarity working with or developing fuzzers.
- Familiarity with cloud security (AWS) and infrastructure-as-code.
- Familiarity with Trusted Platform Modules, HSMs, and trusted boot.
- A history of giving back to the security industry via open source contributions, published papers, or conference presentations.
Benefits
- Base salary range of $220k–$350k.
- Eligibility for an annual bonus and equity compensation.
- Comprehensive benefits package.
Aurora
Aurora (Nasdaq: AUR) is delivering the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly to make transportation safer, more reliable, and more efficient than ever before. The Aurora Driver is a self-driving system, initially designed to operate freight-hauling trucks. Aurora is partnering with industry leaders across the freight and logistics ecosystem, including FedEx, Volvo Trucks, PACCAR, Uber Freight, Werner, Schneider, and Ryder. For Aurora’s latest news, visit aurora.tech.
San Francisco, CA