Aurora
Senior Software Engineer, Motion Controls
$146K–$262K
Mountain View, CA +1 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 14, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, CA
Pittsburgh, PA - Experience
- 5+ years working on control systems for robots or vehicles in automotive, aerospace, robotics, or related fields.
About the job
Develop, integrate, analyze, 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 offline and on-road.
- 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 systems verification, nonlinear vehicle dynamics, or state estimation and signal processing.
- Masters or PhD in a 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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