Automation Engineer, Aurora
$104-151k
+ Annual bonus + equity
3-5 days a week in office (Mountain View, CA)
Self-driving technology company
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Self-driving technology company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$104-151k
+ Annual bonus + equity
3-5 days a week in office (Mountain View, CA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To deliver the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field and a minimum of 3 years of prior relevant experience
- Or an advanced degree in a related field and a minimum of 2 years of experience
- Proficiency in Python and/or JavaScript/TypeScript for building production automation and workflow tooling (not just scripting)
- Experience with Bash/shell scripting for systems-level automation tasks
- Experience working with event-driven architectures such as webhooks or message queues for triggering automated workflows
- Experience building LLM-driven automations that make decisions, call tools/APIs, or route work based on context rather than fixed, binary logic
- Experience designing and consuming REST and/or GraphQL APIs across multiple platforms and vendors (e.g. Okta, Slack, Google Workspace, Jira, Workday, etc.)
- Familiarity with OAuth2.0/OIDC and API authentication patterns for secure service-to-service integration
- Experience building auditable, event logged systems driven by need for compliance
- Track record of driving a defined project from requirements definition through to a fully implemented production solution
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for regular stakeholder updates to project stakeholders and management on automation build status
Desirable
- Familiarity with prompt-based orchestration frameworks/platforms
- Familiarity with identity and access management concepts including SCIM and non-SCIM provisioning
- Understanding of where agentic automation is (and is not) appropriate (e.g. structured intake/triage of novel issues vs. tasks requiring consistent, repeatable and auditable outcomes)
- Experience in an IT operations, corporate engineering, or platform engineering environment
What the job involves
- We're searching for an Automation Engineer II to join our IT Operations team. This role builds the automation pipelines that turn manual, repetitive IT work into permanent, auditable, scalable solutions, from employee/contractor lifecycle automation and identity integrations to the intelligence behind our Slack-based support bot that can resolve user-submitted issues directly in-thread
- Build automation for employee and contractor onboarding and offboarding workflows, creating repeatable, auditable processes that reduce manual touchpoints
- Build the response and task-execution logic for Aurora’s Slack-based IT support bot, interpreting user-submitted issues and triggering deterministic automations to resolve them without a ticket being assigned to a human
- Implement the logic that determines when an issue can be resolved automatically versus when it should escalate to a human under guidance from the Service Desk Lead and management
- Implement full audit logging on all automated resolutions to ensure every action taken is traceable and reviewable post-run
- Work with the Service Desk Lead to identify high-volume manual and repetitive ticket patterns and translate them into automation project requirements
- Implement governance automations that keep platforms and systems in compliance without manual intervention
- Build alerting pipelines for compliance drift, escalating to the appropriate platform owner when thresholds set by platform owners are breached
- Partner with the IAM team to build integrations for access reviews and provisioning into non-SCIM, non-Okta-managed applications
Our take
The trucking industry is facing growing pressure from driver shortages, rising delivery demand, and the need for safer, more efficient freight transport. Long highway routes are expensive and tiring for drivers, especially on repetitive trips so companies are looking for new ways to move goods faster and more reliably while keeping costs low and improving safety.
Aurora Innovations is developing self-driving technology for long-haul trucks through its "Aurora Driver" system. Already, the company is operating autonomous freight routes across Texas and nearby states, often handling the highway portion of deliveries while human drivers complete local drop-offs. On top of this, the company is partnering with major companies like McLane, Volvo Autonomous Solutions, and Hirschbach to bring autonomous trucking into real commercial use.
In an exciting move, Aurora is now going beyond testing and into large-scale operations. McLane has approved driverless freight runs between Dallas and Houston, while Volvo and Aurora have expanded autonomous deliveries into Oklahoma City. With plans to scale routes across the US and agreements for hundreds of future autonomous trucks, Aurora is gearing up to play a very powerful position in autonomous freight transport.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Dec 2020
$400m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Feb 2019
$600m
SERIES B
Total funding: $1.1bn
Company HQ
Strip District, Pittsburgh, PA
Leadership
Chris Urmson
(Co-Founder & CEO)Chris graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a PhD in Robotics. Prior to co-founding Aurora in 2017, they were the CTO of Self-Driving Cars at Google.
Drew Bagnell
(Co-Founder & Chief Scientist)Drew is a Consulting Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, where they received their PhD in Robotics. Previously, they were an Autonomy Architect & Perception Lead at Uber Advanced Technology Center.
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