Staff Application Security Engineer

Who we are

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

The Aurora Driver will 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 or follow us on LinkedIn.

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.

Were looking for a Staff Application Security Engineer with a strong software engineering background to help build and maintain an AI-native application security program for our driverless truck product and supporting infrastructure. This is a builder-first role for someone who enjoys understanding complex systems and working alongside engineers to improve them. Youll collaborate on fixes and design-level improvements build automation and make security a low-friction part of the software development lifecycle. Youll use AI thoughtfully to scale your attention while applying your own engineering judgment.

In this role you will

• Partner with engineering teams on fixes and secure design improvements contributing code directly.

• Investigate findings and their practical impact bringing clear evidence and possible solutions when engaging the responsible teams.

• Help build and maintain the application security program and its tooling using AI to scale investigation while validating results.

• Build automation and integrate preventative controls into the software development lifecycle to reduce recurring risks and friction.

Required qualifications

• 8 years of experience in security applications security engineering or product security roles

• Substantial experience building and maintaining production software with strong programming debugging and system design skills.

• Ability to investigate unfamiliar codebases understand system behavior and reason about potential misuse.

• Experience delivering technical work across teams in a large or complex engineering organization.

• Demonstrated ability to threat model systems explain technical risks and tradeoffs clearly and collaborate with engineers on practical solutions.

• Experience building developer tooling automation or software development lifecycle integrations.

• Practical experience using AI to support technical work with the judgment to validate its output and explain the underlying reasoning.

• Experience with languages in our stack: C C Go Python JavaScript and web frameworks.

Desirable qualifications

• Hands-on experience building or maintaining both cloud and embedded systems ideally with deep technical knowledge of each.

• Experience developing software for safety-critical products or their supporting infrastructure particularly autonomous vehicle technology.

• Application or product security experience including in-depth code audits secure design reviews threat modeling or vulnerability investigation.

• Experience building and maintaining production AI-assisted security tooling or automation.

For roles based in San Francisco CA Mountain View CA and Seattle WA: The salary range for this position is $189000 - $303000 per year.

For roles based in Pittsburgh PA Livonia MI and Dallas TX: The salary range for this position is $171000 - $273000 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.

Working at Aurora

At Aurora we bring together extraordinarily talented and experienced people united by the strength of our values. We operate with integrity set outrageous goals and build a culture where we win together all without any jerks.

We believe in-person work increases collaboration empathy and our ability to lead effectively. As a result Aurorans are expected to work from the office at least 3 days per week with some roles requiring more frequent in-office presence up to 5 days per week based on operational needs.

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Our commitment to safety

At the core of everything we do is our commitment to safety. Building best-in-class self-driving technology will take time and we believe that each employee at Aurora has a role in contributing to safety every step of the way. Aurora expects commitment to our safety policies from every employee and seeks candidates who take an active responsibility can contribute to building an atmosphere of trust and invest in the organizations long-term success by prioritizing working safely no matter what.

Our commitment to inclusion

Aurora considers candidates without regard to their race color religion national origin age sex gender gender identity gender expression sexual orientation marital status pregnancy status parent or caregiver status ancestry political affiliation veteran and/or military status physical or mental disability or any other status protected by federal or state law. Aurora considers qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal state and local law. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability you may contact us at .

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