Staff Application Security Engineer

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., Hands-on experience building or maintaining both cloud and embedded systems, ideally with deep technical knowledge of each.
• Experience developing software for safety-critical products or their supporting infrastructure, particularly autonomous vehicle technology.
• Application or product security experience, including in-depth code audits, secure design reviews, threat modeling, or vulnerability investigation.
• Experience building and maintaining production AI-assisted security tooling or automation.

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

For roles based in San Francisco, CA, Mountain View, CA, and Seattle, WA: The salary range for this position is $189,000 - $303,000 per year.

For roles based in Pittsburgh, PA, Livonia, MI, and Dallas, TX: The salary range for this position is $171,000 - $273,000 per year.

Aurora’s mission is to deliver the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly.

The Aurora Driver will create a new era in mobility and logistics, one that will bring a safer, more efficient, and more accessible future to everyone.

At Aurora, you will tackle massively complex problems alongside other passionate, intelligent individuals, growing as an expert while expanding your knowledge. For the latest news from Aurora, visit aurora.tech or follow us on LinkedIn.

What we are looking for

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., 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 believe in-person work increases collaboration, empathy and our ability to lead effectively. As a result, we operate in a hybrid work environment where Aurorans are in office at least 3 days per week.

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Our commitment to safety

At the core of everything we do is our commitment to safety. Building best-in-class self-driving technology will take time, and we believe that each employee at Aurora has a role in contributing to safety, every step of the way. Aurora expects commitment to our safety policies from every employee, and seeks candidates who take an active responsibility, can contribute to building an atmosphere of trust, and invest in the organization’s long-term success by prioritizing working safely, no matter what.

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