Geometric Map Engineer - HD Maps & SLAM

Aurora; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 139,000 - 223,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Equity compensation

Benefits

Job summary

Aurora is hiring a Software Engineer to build the 3D spatial foundation powering the Aurora Driver. You will own algorithms processing millions of lidar logs into automated offline maps, addressing speed and scale as we expand to new routes.

Join a team that designs geometric map generation, improves runtime and collaborates across teams to define data contracts and integration needs. Senate of your expertise will drive safe, scalable autonomous mobility.

Qualifications

• BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of professional software development experience in C++.
• Hands-on experience with 3D geometry and point-cloud processing, such as registration (ICP, scan matching), pose-graph or nonlinear least-squares optimization, surface reconstruction or lidar-based SLAM/mapping.
• Strong grasp of linear algebra, spatial transforms, numerical optimization and probability.
• Experience debugging and improving data quality across large datasets or pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and own geometric map-generation algorithms, including sensor optimization, large scale pose-graph optimization and multi-modal alignment.
• Identify and build a system that will be immune to failure modes. In doing so, be expected to root cause and ship algorithmic fixes with measurable success criteria.
• Improve the runtime and scalability of large-scale distributed map-build pipeline stages.
• Collaborate with neighboring team on defining data contracts and integration requirements

Skills

C++

3D geometry

Point-cloud processing

SLAM

Linear algebra

Python

Data quality

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering or related field

Tools

AWS

Beam

Spark

Job description

Aurora is hiring a Software Engineer to build the 3D spatial foundation powering the Aurora Driver. You will own algorithms processing millions of lidar logs into automated offline maps, addressing speed and scale as we expand to new routes.

Join a team that designs geometric map generation, improves runtime and collaborates across teams to define data contracts and integration needs. Senate of your expertise will drive safe, scalable autonomous mobility.