Drimva

Aurora

Staff Software Engineer, Deep Learning Acceleration

$171K–$274K

Mountain View, CA +2 · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 3, 2026

Location
Mountain View, CA
San Francisco, CA
Pittsburgh, PA
Experience
Minimum 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
Education
BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related field.

About the job

Optimize deep learning networks and their deployment for Aurora’s autonomous vehicles and large-scale training infrastructure.

What you'll do

  • Analyze and optimize deep learning network performance, including GPU memory use, latency, and throughput.
  • Improve software architecture and deploy deep learning models on vehicles and in data centers; troubleshoot bottlenecks using profiling and roofline models.
  • Collaborate with engineers and researchers to improve self-driving technology efficiency and reliability.

What they ask for

  • At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience.
  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related field.
  • Strong programming skills in CUDA, C++, and Python, with extensive high-performance computing and parallel programming experience.
  • Hands-on framework-level DL/ML workload optimization experience and proficiency with performance analysis tools such as NVIDIA Nsight Systems and Nsight Compute.

Nice to have

  • Hands-on experience in motion planning, robotics, autonomous systems, systems software, or computer vision.
  • Experience with TensorRT, OpenAI Triton, Mojo, or other inference acceleration tools.

Pay

$189,000 - $274,000 per year (base salary; Mountain View, CA and San Francisco, CA); $171,000 - $247,000 per year (base salary; Pittsburgh, PA)

Tools

CUDA, C++, Python, NVIDIA Nsight Systems, Nsight Compute, PyTorch, TensorFlow, TensorRT

AI focus

Accelerate and optimize deep learning models for autonomous vehicle deployment and large-scale data-center training.

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