Staff AppSec Engineer - AI-Driven Security for Autonomy

Aurora; Livonia (MI); Hybrid; USD 171,000 - 273,000; Full time

Job summary

Aurora in Livonia, MI is seeking a Staff Application Security Engineer to help build an AI-native security program for our driverless truck product. This is a builder-first role collaborating with engineers to improve systems and security across the software stack.

You will lead fixes, threat modeling, tooling, and automation, applying your deep software engineering background to scale security and reduce risk in a fast-paced, hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

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

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

Skills

Security engineering

Threat modeling

Code reviews

AI tooling

Go

Python

JavaScript

C/C++

Job description

Aurora in Livonia, MI is seeking a Staff Application Security Engineer to help build an AI-native security program for our driverless truck product. This is a builder-first role collaborating with engineers to improve systems and security across the software stack.

You will lead fixes, threat modeling, tooling, and automation, applying your deep software engineering background to scale security and reduce risk in a fast-paced, hybrid work environment.