Senior Applications Engineer

Who we are

Auroras mission is to deliver the benefits of self-driving technology safely quickly and broadly.

The Aurora Driverwill create a new era in mobility and logistics one that will bring a safer more efficient and more accessible future to everyone.

At Aurora you will tackle massively complex problems alongside other passionate intelligent individuals growing as an expert while expanding your knowledge. For the latest news from Aurora visit follow us onLinkedIn.

What we are looking for

Aurora hires talented people with diverse backgrounds who are ready to help build a transportation ecosystem that will make our roads safer get crucial goods where they need to go and make mobility more efficient and accessible for all.

This isnt a standard administration role. We are looking for a highly technical Senior Application Engineer who deeply understands application architecture cloud infrastructure and custom application software development.

You will join a small agile team with the mandate to own our critical enterprise applications end-to-end. You dont necessarily need to know our specific vendor tools on day one; instead you need the architectural fundamentals to rapidly learn any application look under the hood and design bulletproof integrations that weave them together into a highly secure fault-tolerant digital thread.

In this role you will

• Application Architecture & Ownership: Own the end-to-end health infrastructure and deployment architecture for our mission-critical enterprise applications. You will manage the underlying stack including AWS (EC2/S3) application servers (e.g. Tomcat) and relational databases.
• Reliable Integrations & ETL: Design and build robust integrations across our ecosystem. You will build the error-handling caching and retry logic to ensure that if an API call drops or a payload fails the system recovers gracefully without data loss.
• Middleware & Automation: Leverage enterprise iPaaS middleware (like Workato) and write custom backend code (Python Java) to automate complex cross-functional workflows and replace manual data entry.
• Security & Resilience: Architect highly secure workflows manage role-based access controls and design disaster recovery (DR) and deployment strategies (like Blue-Green deployments) to ensure zero downtime.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner directly with mechanical electrical and software engineering teams to understand their workflows unblock their bottlenecks and provide creative scalable technical solutions.
• Custom Development: Write custom backend logic and scripts when out-of-the-box software configurations hit their limits and explore how to incorporate GenAI to accelerate workflows.

Required qualifications

• Experience: 8 years of experience as an Application Engineer Software Engineer or Systems Architect managing building and integrating complex enterprise applications.
• Architectural Fundamentals: Deep understanding of modern application architecture distributed systems and integration patterns (REST APIs webhooks asynchronous messaging event-driven architectures).
• Development Skills: Strong hands-on coding and scripting proficiency (Java Python or JavaScript - libraries and frameworks) with a focus on backend data processing transformations and API development.
• Infrastructure & Cloud: Solid experience managing application infrastructure on AWS navigating Linux environments managing web/app servers (e.g. Apache Tomcat) and querying relational databases (MS SQL PostgreSQL or Oracle).
• Systems Thinker: The ability to rapidly learn new highly complex vendor applications understand their underlying data models and figure out how to scale them safely.

Desirable qualifications

• Domain Knowledge: Experience integrating and managing Hardware Engineering Manufacturing QMS ERP or PLM systems (such as 3DEXPERIENCE Arena Cadence Jama or Jira).
• Data Models: Familiarity with complex engineering data structures such as multi-level BOMs (eBOM to mBOM) product lifecycles and configuration management.
• Middleware: Direct experience building custom connectors in Workato Boomi or MuleSoft and strong application integrations experience.

The base salary range for this position is $127000 - $185000 per Year. Auroras pay ranges are determined by role level and location. Within the range the successful candidates starting base pay will be determined based on factors including job-related skills experience qualifications relevant education or training and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future. The successful candidate will also be eligible for an annual bonus equity compensation and benefits.