Director of Cloud Infrastructure - Mountain View, United States - Aurora CO

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Who We Are

Aurora (Nasdaq: AUR) is delivering the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly to make transportation safer, increasingly accessible, and more reliable and efficient than ever before. The Aurora Driver is a self-driving system designed to operate multiple vehicle types, from freight-hauling semi-trucks to ride-hailing passenger vehicles, and underpins Aurora Horizon and Aurora Connect, its driver-as-a-service products for trucking and ride-hailing. Aurora is working with industry leaders across the transportation ecosystem, including Toyota, FedEx, Volvo Trucks, PACCAR, Uber, Uber Freight, U.S. Xpress, Werner, Covenant, Schneider, and Ryder. For Auroras latest news, visit and @aurora_inno on Twitter.

Aurora hires talented people with diverse backgrounds who are ready to help build a transportation ecosystem that will make our roads safer, get crucial goods where they need to go, and make mobility more efficient and accessible for all. Were searching for a Director of Cloud Infrastructure to join Auroras Infrastructure Engineering team.

In this role, you will

• • Build a world-class infrastructure engineering team that lives and breathes Infrastructure, machine learning, GPU optimizations, performance analytics, processing pipelines, observability, and telemetry to deliver the best engineering team in the self-driving industry
  • Own the overall FinOps program, driving cloud cost awareness, cloud cost management, and modeling for the entire company
  • Own the company's overall Cloud and Computational Infrastructure, supporting use cases from hardware, software, triage, autonomy, operations, machine learning, simulation, mapping, and data labeling.
  • Create the vision and become the thought leader of our API developer experience, a critical growth area as Aurora ships our first commercial services in 2024.
  • Lead a diverse set of sub-teams, including Compute, Workflows, MLOps, Observability tools, Cloud & APIs, and enterprise systems.
  • Own the vision for the observability experience for engineers building everything from micro-services to simulations to ML training and Inference in the cloud.
  • Build reliable, production-grade systems that scale to support all hundreds of Hardware and Software engineers and thousands of operations users to enable a large, geographically dispersed workforce.
  • Attract and hire industry-leading engineers and operations staff
  • Foster a team culture of collaboration, excellence, and delivery
  
  Required Qualifications
• Significant experience leading software development teams in building scalable production-grade distributed systems or HPC environments
• Proven experience building a cloud infrastructure-focused FinOps program, supporting tooling, and promoting of engineering best practices to bring cost predictability and effeciency across the entire organization.
• Strong experience with multi-tenant workload scheduling and optimization both from performance and cost
• Deep experience on all aspects of observability (profiling, tracing, logging) and how to scale in in a distributed systems environment
• Demonstrated experience in delivering and supporting reliable APIs, Processing pipelines, Developer tools, and systems at scale
• Excellent communication and leadership skills with a product-mined approach to infrastructure and engineering experience
• Proven track record of collaboration with other teams, including the ability to resolve prioritization, experience in a leadership capacity, managing multiple software engineering teams
• Previous experience as a lead technical engineer, with a demonstrated ability to dig into complex technical challenges
• Experience building and growing world-class engineering teams

Desirable Qualifications

• Experience building a Developer Platform
• Expertise in computer vision, robotics, and self-driving
• GPU or custom ASIC optimizations used in ML Training or inference
• Experience with ML Model Training and Inference

The base salary range for this position is $247,000-$320,000 per year. Auroras pay ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, the successful candidates 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.

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Working at Aurora

At Aurora, we bring together extraordinarily talented and experienced people united by the strength of our values. We operate with integrity, set outrageous goals, and build a culture where we win together all without any jerks.

We have offices in several locations across the United States, where we encourage team and cross-functional collaboration. Aurora offers competitive medical, dental, and vision benefits, and additional healthcare support including medical transportation reimbursement, fertility, adoption, and surrogacy benefits. We empower our employees and their families with options to further their unique physical, mental, and financial well-being.

Our Learning and Development offerings include Aurora Academy, where our people learn, develop, and practice the essential skills that drive Auroras mission, continually up-leveling our team along the way. Our Careers page provides insight into career opportunities at Aurora, and you can find all the latest news on our Blog.

Safety is central to everything we do. Every employee at Aurora has a role in contributing to safety, every step of the way. We seek candidates who take active responsibility, can contribute to building an atmosphere of trust, and invest in the organization's long-term success by working safely no matter what.

We believe that self-driving technology has broad benefits including increased access to transportation. To realize those benefits, we need a workforce with diverse experiences, insights, and perspectives a workforce that reflects the communities our technology will serve.

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

At Aurora, every employee is empowered to take an active role in building an inclusive, collaborative, and unified culture that leverages our diverse strengths, perspectives, and backgrounds.

Transforming how the world moves people and goods involves seeking to understand backgrounds, insights, and lived experiences that differ from our own. One way we accomplish that is with our 15 employee-led Aurora Unified Groups, which support diverse voices and drive inclusive collaboration. We believe that teamwork, belonging, and trust motivate and support our employees to do their best work. As our team grows, we strive to attract and retain exceptional talent that adds new perspectives and experiences and continues to drive innovation. Learn more on our Culture Page.

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