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For the latest news from Aurora, visit aurora.tech or follow us on LinkedIn.\nWhat we are looking for\nAurora 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.\nWe’re looking for a Staff Application Security Engineer with a strong software engineering background to help build and maintain an AI-native application security program for our driverless truck product and supporting infrastructure. This is a builder-first role for someone who enjoys understanding complex systems and working alongside engineers to improve them. You’ll collaborate on fixes and design-level improvements, build automation, and make security a low-friction part of the software development lifecycle. You’ll use AI thoughtfully to scale your attention while applying your own engineering judgment.\nIn this role you will\nPartner with engineering teams on fixes and secure design improvements, contributing code directly.\n\nInvestigate findings and their practical impact, bringing clear evidence and possible solutions when engaging the responsible teams.\n\nHelp build and maintain the application security program and its tooling, using AI to scale investigation while validating results.\n\nBuild automation and integrate preventative controls into the software development lifecycle to reduce recurring risks and friction.\n\nRequired qualifications\n8+ years of experience in security , applications security engineering, or product security roles\n\nSubstantial experience building and maintaining production software, with strong programming, debugging, and system design skills.\n\nAbility to investigate unfamiliar codebases, understand system behavior, and reason about potential misuse.\n\nExperience delivering technical work across teams in a large or complex engineering organization.\n\nDemonstrated ability to threat model systems, explain technical risks, and tradeoffs clearly and collaborate with engineers on practical solutions.\n\nExperience building developer tooling, automation, or software development lifecycle integrations.\n\nPractical experience using AI to support technical work, with the judgment to validate its output and explain the underlying reasoning.\n\nExperience with languages in our stack: C, C++, Go, Python, JavaScript, and web frameworks.\n\nDesirable qualifications\nHands-on experience building or maintaining both cloud and embedded systems, ideally with deep technical knowledge of each.\n\nExperience developing software for safety-critical products or their supporting infrastructure, particularly autonomous vehicle technology.\n\nApplication or product security experience, including in-depth code audits, secure design reviews, threat modeling, or vulnerability investigation.\n\nExperience building and maintaining production AI-assisted security tooling or automation.\n\nFor 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.\nFor roles based in Pittsburgh, PA, Livonia, MI, and Dallas, TX: The salary range for this position is $171,000 - $273,000 per year. \nAurora’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.\nWorking at Aurora\nAt 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.\nWe believe in-person work increases collaboration, empathy, and our ability to lead effectively. As a result, Aurorans are expected to work from the office at least 3 days per week, with some roles requiring more frequent in-office presence, up to 5 days per week, based on operational needs.\nOurCareers page provides insight into what it is like to work at Aurora, and you can find all the latest updates in our Newsroom.\nOur commitment to safety\nAt 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.\nOur commitment to inclusion\nAurora considers candidates without regard to their 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 and/or military status, physical or mental disability, or any other status protected by federal or state law. Aurora considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. 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