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For the latest news from Aurora, visit aurora.tech or follow us on LinkedIn.\nWhat we are looking for\nWe are seeking a highly experienced and mission-driven night shift leader based in Palmer, Texas, with as-needed travel across testing locations to provide direct, night-to-night leadership for our Tactical Development (TACT DEV) Operators.\nThis role is critical to the success of our off-site and travel-based development testing. Because the TACT DEV team travels 90% of the time, this leader acts as the \"anchor,\" ensuring that geographically dispersed operators remain synchronized with Aurora’s development goals, safety protocols, and company culture.\nThe ideal candidate thrives in a high-tempo environment and is passionate about building a cohesive, high-performing team culture among individuals who rarely spend time in the same physical space. This position requires exceptional leadership, a safety-first focus, and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced environment, requiring strong coordination with stakeholders across operations, software, and hardware.\nSchedule & Location: This role operates on a dedicated Monday through Friday night shift (4:00 PM to 12:30 AM). Please note that this position requires a mandatory 4 days per week in-office, working between the Palmer, TX terminal and the Aurora Dallas office.\nIn this role, you will\nServe as the Team Lead for development testing, executing daily deployment plans to ensure scheduled timelines are met and performing in-field tasks alongside the team to maintain operational momentum.\n\nDevelop a deep understanding of Aurora’s testing requirements and software/hardware development goals to serve as the first line of support for operators, answering questions on complex test plans and ensuring data collection aligns with engineering needs.\n\nRemove road-blocks in scheduling and availability by coordinating with Maintenance and Fleet Ops cross functional stakeholders on asset availability.\n\nMaintain a willingness to travel heavily through connecting with your team in the field across a variety of working environments.\n\nStep into the vehicle as an operator SME to support our onboarding and remedial training practices, while maintaining a first-hand understanding of the required in-field workflow.\n\nProvide emergency coverage to prevent testing gaps, including supporting truck start-up/shut-down, troubleshooting, and in-vehicle testing support such as Vehicle Release Testing and Aurora Tooling Tests.\n\nBuild and maintain a positive, unified team culture for a 90% travel workforce, developing creative ways to keep remote operators engaged and aligned with Aurora’s mission.\n\nOversee the specialized requirements of a CDL-holding workforce, including monitoring Hours of Service (HOS), leading Driver Monitoring System (DMS) coaching, and facilitating internal safety event reviews.\n\nFacilitate daily handoffs and status updates between the field team and stakeholders in Engineering and Operations, ensuring all technical documentation and data are delivered accurately and on time.\n\nOversee and audit technical execution of field activities to ensure strict adherence to global SOPs and safety protocols.\n\nProvide regular, informal feedback and structured performance coaching to operators, fostering a growth mindset and driving high accountability.\n\nSupport the field team during emergent situations, providing calm and decisive guidance during operational hurdles or scheduling adjustments.\n\nRequired Qualifications\n3+ years of experience in dispatch, fleet operations, or a related high-tempo scheduling environment.\n\n1-2+ years of leadership experience (e.g., Lead, Shift Lead, or Associate Manager) with a proven ability to motivate remote or distributed teams.\n\nExceptional critical thinking and the ability to make command decisions and take initiative.\n\nStrong judgment and the ability to make \"command decisions\" when field teams face immediate blockers.\n\nConflict management and resolution experience.\n\nFlexibility for day, night, and/or weekend work, not always planned far in advance.\n\nAbility to participate in on-call response and incident management\n\nDesirable Qualifications\nExperience specifically managing traveling, team members with Commercial Driver licensing, or remote technical workforces.\n\nExperience managing in a commercial operations workforce.\n\nBackground in robotics, autonomous vehicles, or complex logistics.\n\nExperience coordinating across multiple geographies and distinct stakeholder groups.\n\nA CDL license\n\nFor roles based in Palmer, TX: The salary range for this position is $83,000 - $120,500 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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