Staff AI-Driven Application Security Engineer

Aurora; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); Hybrid; USD 171,000 - 273,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Annual bonus

Benefits

Job summary

Aurora is seeking a Staff Application Security Engineer to build and maintain an AI-native application security program for our driverless truck product and supporting infrastructure. This builder-first role collaborates with engineers to improve security, scale investigations with AI, and embed preventive controls across the software development lifecycle.

You will partner with engineering teams, investigate findings with evidence-based solutions, and contribute to tooling and automation to

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

Responsibilities

• 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 investigations while validating results.
• Build automation and integrate preventative controls into the SDLC to reduce recurring risks and friction.

Skills

Security engineering

Production software

Codebase investigation

Threat modeling

Developer tooling

AI for security

Programming languages: C/C++/Go/Python

Cross-team collaboration

Security tooling

Job description

Aurora is seeking a Staff Application Security Engineer to build and maintain an AI-native application security program for our driverless truck product and supporting infrastructure. This builder-first role collaborates with engineers to improve security, scale investigations with AI, and embed preventive controls across the software development lifecycle.

You will partner with engineering teams, investigate findings with evidence-based solutions, and contribute to tooling and automation to