Senior Software Engineer, Geometric HD Mapping

Aurora; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Equity compensation

Benefits

Job summary

Aurora in San Francisco is seeking a Software Engineer to join Map Build's Geometric Generation team. You will own 3D map-generation algorithms, process millions of lidar logs, and advance offline maps for Aurora Driver at scale.

You will lead multi-quarter C++ projects, optimize large-scale geometry pipelines, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to define data contracts and integration requirements.

Qualifications

• BS, MS or PhD in CS, robotics, electrical engineering or related field.
• 6+ years of professional C++ software development, leading multi-quarter projects.
• Hands-on experience with 3D geometry and point-cloud processing (ICP, scan matching, SLAM).
• Strong background in linear algebra, spatial transforms, numerical optimization and probability.
• Experience debugging 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 immune to failure modes 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

ICP / scan matching

SLAM / mapping

Linear algebra

Python

Education

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

Tools

AWS

Spark

Beam

Python

Job description

Aurora in San Francisco is seeking a Software Engineer to join Map Build's Geometric Generation team. You will own 3D map-generation algorithms, process millions of lidar logs, and advance offline maps for Aurora Driver at scale.

You will lead multi-quarter C++ projects, optimize large-scale geometry pipelines, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to define data contracts and integration requirements.