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The role focuses on enabling future business goals by partnering with senior engineering leaders to craft coherent architectures for future hardware platforms and planning & executing on the delivery of future fallback systems.\r\nResponsibilities\r\nPartner closely with senior executives and engineering leaders to drive the development of architectural proposals, evaluate new technologies, and execute efforts to de-risk architectural decisions across hardware and software systems.\r\nCoordinate with various engineering teams/departments to ensure that the architecture meets business objectives and enables transitions through various generations of hardware.\r\nWork with a team of experts from across Aurora to take complex, highly ambiguous challenges and transform them into actionable architectural solutions and improvements that can be implemented by teams across Aurora.\r\nDrive successful definitions, recommendations, decisions, execution, and delivery of major architectural initiatives, including:\r\nFoundational toolchain and performance efforts for Automotive SoC-based compute platforms\r\nOptimizing the Aurora Driver Architecture for our scale-generation vehicle platform and Aurora Driver Hardware Kit\r\nFirst and third-party fallback systems that enable safe, capable, and cost-effective system architectures.\r\nDriving architectural improvements to Autonomy stacks to enable more efficient onboard execution at scale\r\nServe as a go-to resource for information and up-to-date status for relevant programs, facilitating regular executive program reviews and ensuring agenda alignment with the acting chair.\r\nDevelop detailed and credible engineering plans for architectural projects.\r\nPartner with stakeholders across hardware and software to understand the company product roadmap and how architectural changes will support future products.\r\nProactively identify and remove obstacles to unblock team execution and balance competing priorities, escalating when necessary to maintain momentum and clear roadblocks.\r\nLead evaluation and integration of vendor-supplied fallback systems.\r\nRequired Qualifications\r\nMinimum of 5 years experience as a Technical Program Manager, Product Manager, or Engineering Manager in autonomous systems, robotics, embedded systems, or software development, with an architecture focus.\r\nBachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Math, Information Systems, or a related area.\r\nStrong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to adjust communication based on audience, including senior executives.\r\nStrong technical aptitude and an ability to understand complex technical designs, software development lifecycle, challenges, and risks; ability to work closely with engineers.\r\nStrong experience in project management; practical familiarity with both Agile and Waterfall methodologies and flexibility to adapt and apply them when appropriate to improve and not hinder team execution velocity, quality, and efficacy.\r\nAbility to work in MountainView, CA, with occasional travel expected to support vendor conversations and cross-functional team alignment.\r\nDesirable Qualifications\r\nA graduate degree in a related field (or equivalent experience).\r\nExperience with Pytorch, Tensorrt, CUDA, and/or DRIVEOS.\r\nExperience with big software platform migrations or optimizing hardware resources (data, memory, compute).\r\nExperience with complex autonomous systems, functional safety, system safety, or safety engineering.\r\nExperience with managing programs with a mix of internal and external (third party) stakeholders.\r\nCompensation & Benefits\r\nThe base salary range for this position is $181,000–$262,000 per year. Aurora's pay ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, the successful candidate's starting base pay will be determined based on factors including job-related skills, experience, qualifications, relevant education or training, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future. The successful candidate will also be eligible for an annual bonus, equity compensation, and benefits.\r\nEqual Employment Opportunity\r\nAurora considers candidates without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy status, parent or caregiver status, ancestry, political affiliation, veteran/military status, physical or mental disability, or any other status protected by federal or state law. Aurora also considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. 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The role focuses on enabling future business goals by partnering with senior engineering leaders to craft coherent architectures for future hardware platforms and planning & executing on the delivery of future fallback systems.\r\nResponsibilities\r\nPartner closely with senior executives and engineering leaders to drive the development of architectural proposals, evaluate new technologies, and execute efforts to de-risk architectural decisions across hardware and software systems.\r\nCoordinate with various engineering teams/departments to ensure that the architecture meets business objectives and enables transitions through various generations of hardware.\r\nWork with a team of experts from across Aurora to take complex, highly ambiguous challenges and transform them into actionable architectural solutions and improvements that can be implemented by teams across Aurora.\r\nDrive successful definitions, recommendations, decisions, execution, and delivery of major architectural initiatives, including:\r\nFoundational toolchain and performance efforts for Automotive SoC-based compute platforms\r\nOptimizing the Aurora Driver Architecture for our scale-generation vehicle platform and Aurora Driver Hardware Kit\r\nFirst and third-party fallback systems that enable safe, capable, and cost-effective system architectures.\r\nDriving architectural improvements to Autonomy stacks to enable more efficient onboard execution at scale\r\nServe as a go-to resource for information and up-to-date status for relevant programs, facilitating regular executive program reviews and ensuring agenda alignment with the acting chair.\r\nDevelop detailed and credible engineering plans for architectural projects.\r\nPartner with stakeholders across hardware and software to understand the company product roadmap and how architectural changes will support future products.\r\nProactively identify and remove obstacles to unblock team execution and balance competing priorities, escalating when necessary to maintain momentum and clear roadblocks.\r\nLead evaluation and integration of vendor-supplied fallback systems.\r\nRequired Qualifications\r\nMinimum of 5 years experience as a Technical Program Manager, Product Manager, or Engineering Manager in autonomous systems, robotics, embedded systems, or software development, with an architecture focus.\r\nBachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Math, Information Systems, or a related area.\r\nStrong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to adjust communication based on audience, including senior executives.\r\nStrong technical aptitude and an ability to understand complex technical designs, software development lifecycle, challenges, and risks; ability to work closely with engineers.\r\nStrong experience in project management; practical familiarity with both Agile and Waterfall methodologies and flexibility to adapt and apply them when appropriate to improve and not hinder team execution velocity, quality, and efficacy.\r\nAbility to work in MountainView, CA, with occasional travel expected to support vendor conversations and cross-functional team alignment.\r\nDesirable Qualifications\r\nA graduate degree in a related field (or equivalent experience).\r\nExperience with Pytorch, Tensorrt, CUDA, and/or DRIVEOS.\r\nExperience with big software platform migrations or optimizing hardware resources (data, memory, compute).\r\nExperience with complex autonomous systems, functional safety, system safety, or safety engineering.\r\nExperience with managing programs with a mix of internal and external (third party) stakeholders.\r\nCompensation & Benefits\r\nThe base salary range for this position is $181,000–$262,000 per year. 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