Central DevOps Specialist — 4x10 Schedule

Aurora; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 78,799,000 - 95,991,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Equity compensation

Benefits

In-office 3 days per week

Job summary

Aurora is seeking a Central Development Operations Specialist in Pittsburgh, PA to safely monitor and execute development-focused missions for our autonomous vehicle fleet. You will work on closed-course tracks and public roads, translating test observations into actionable feedback for engineering and product teams.

The role emphasizes safety, organization, and strong communication as you support new tooling, coordinate withTesting teams, and help scale workflows toward Commercial operations.

Qualifications

• Ability to read and accurately execute technical test procedures.
• Ability to monitor proprietary tooling on a laptop for extended periods.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of the self-driving stack and daily software changes.
• Proactively surface questions when procedures or tooling change; avoid unnecessary escalation.
• Valid U.S. driver's license, 5+ years driving history, clean MVR.
• Must pass initial and random drug/alcohol screenings.
• Flexibility for day/night/weekend work on a 4x10 schedule.
• Up to 30% travel.
• 100% in-office presence (with travel as needed).

Responsibilities

• Send out scheduled test assignments to the field testing team and provide remote support.
• Read test procedures and translate observations into feedback for Testing PMs.
• Onboard into commercial command-center practices for development use cases.
• Provide structured feedback on feature/tool performance to Testing PMs.
• Respond to trigger requests and safely send remote commands.
• Contribute to cross-functional projects and continuous improvement efforts.
• Escalate complex issues with complete documentation to Vehicle Reliability Engineering.
• Escalate blockers with solutions to close the loop with cross-functional teams.
• Collaborate as a team and represent Aurora with the public.

Skills

Technical test procedures

Laptop monitoring

Self-driving stack knowledge

Issue triage

Strong communication

Safety focus

Willingness to travel

Tools

G-Suite

Command line

Jira

Slack

Job description

Aurora is seeking a Central Development Operations Specialist in Pittsburgh, PA to safely monitor and execute development-focused missions for our autonomous vehicle fleet. You will work on closed-course tracks and public roads, translating test observations into actionable feedback for engineering and product teams.

The role emphasizes safety, organization, and strong communication as you support new tooling, coordinate withTesting teams, and help scale workflows toward Commercial operations.