Aurora Innovation
Senior Software Engineer, Motion Controls
$146K–$262K
Mountain View, CA +1 · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 4, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, CA
Pittsburgh, PA - Experience
- 5+ years; no alternatives stated.
About the job
Develop, integrate, and verify motion control systems for the Aurora Driver across vehicle platforms.
What you'll do
- Develop motion control algorithms for a safety-critical system.
- Analyze control system performance in offline and on-road environments.
- Verify system robustness to disturbances, failure modes, and environmental conditions.
What they ask for
- Experience in control system design and a solid foundation in control theory.
- Experience building production-quality C++ code.
- 5+ years working on control systems for robots or vehicles in automotive, aerospace, robotics, or related fields.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with fail-safe/fail-operational control systems, safety-critical or autonomous system verification, nonlinear vehicle dynamics, or state estimation and signal processing.
- Masters or PhD in related field.
Pay
$160,000 - $262,000 per year (base salary); $146,000 - $234,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
C++
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