Aurora Innovation
Staff Application Security Engineer
$171K–$303K
Mountain View, CA +5 · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, CA
Livonia, MI
San Francisco, CA
Pittsburgh, PA
Dallas, TX
Seattle, WA - Experience
- 8+ years in security, application security engineering, or product security roles.
About the job
Build and maintain an application security program for Aurora’s driverless truck product and infrastructure, partnering with engineers to improve security through code, tooling, and lifecycle controls.
What you'll do
- Collaborate with engineering teams on security fixes and secure design improvements, contributing code directly.
- Investigate security findings, assess their practical impact, and communicate evidence and solutions.
- Develop security tooling and automation, including AI-assisted investigation and preventative software-development lifecycle controls.
What they ask for
- 8+ years in security, application security engineering, or product security roles.
- Substantial experience building and maintaining production software, with strong programming, debugging, and system design skills.
- Experience delivering technical work across teams in a large or complex engineering organization.
- Experience with languages in the stack: C, C++, Go, Python, JavaScript, and web frameworks.
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience building or maintaining cloud and embedded systems; safety-critical or autonomous-vehicle software experience.
- Experience with application or product security, or production AI-assisted security tooling and automation.
Pay
USD 189,000 - USD 303,000 per year (base salary); USD 171,000 - USD 273,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
C, C++, Go, Python, JavaScript
AI focus
Use AI to support security investigations and scale attention, validating results with engineering judgment; help build and maintain AI-assisted security tooling.
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