Aurora Innovation · 16 hours ago
VP - Tech Foundations
Mountain View, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
$350K/yr - $400K/yrAurora Innovation is dedicated to delivering the benefits of self-driving technology. They are seeking a VP - Tech Foundations to own the core technology infrastructure, build modern AI infrastructure, and drive technical excellence while collaborating across various departments.
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Responsibilities
Own the core technology infrastructure of Aurora, encompassing the platforms & tooling used in design, implementation, and management of systems and infrastructure used to build Aurora Driver with a Petabyte-scale Data Platform, MLOps Infrastructure, the Aurora Developer Experience pipeline (code, build, test, and deploy) and underpinning Aurora Connected Services
Partner closely with the Software Engineering teams that develop Aurora Driver, Aurora Connected Services, Aurora Maps, to help shape the strategic vision and deliver the technical roadmap for Aurora's Infrastructure
Build & maintain a modern cloud-based AI infrastructure, ensuring maximizing throughput on development pipelines, whilst minimizing cost-of-operations and time-taken to drive iterations of Aurora development processes
Drive technical excellence and innovation, championing best practices in software development, architecture, system efficiency and reliability
Combine technical leadership with organizational strategy to ensure Infrastructure empowers every part of Aurora - from product innovation to operational excellence
Lead a highly cross-functional environment, collaborating closely with SW Engineering, Product Management, CyberSecurity, Legal and Finance
Attract, hire and develop industry-leading Software, Data and ML engineers, leaders and operations staff (think DevOps, DataOps, MLOps, Cloud SRE)
Foster a team culture of collaboration, excellence, and delivery
Drive effective partnerships internally and externally with senior executives
Qualification
Required
Engineering Leadership experience at a company operating at scale that is dealing with mission critical systems (safety critical experience a bonus)
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence and align senior leaders and stakeholders across the company as well as external partners
Strong business acumen and the ability to make strategic decisions that balance technical trade-offs with business needs
Exceptional strategic thinking with the ability to align technical solutions with organizational goals
Demonstrated success in building and leading teams responsible for large-scale infrastructure and/or developer/data platforms
Demonstrated experience recruiting, building, structuring, scaling technical organizations, including performance management
Proven track record of delivering significant performance and efficiency improvements in large-scale systems
Experience in Distributed Systems, Data Infrastructure, ML Frameworks/Platforms, and Cloud native technologies (e.g. Kubernetes, AWS etc)
Demonstrated experience in building & managing highly-available cloud-services and infrastructure for business continuity and mission critical services
Preferred
Experience with Machine Learning infrastructure and tools
Experience working on large scale infrastructure
Experience in transitioning growing startups as they scale to market-leading enterprises
Benefits
Annual bonus
Equity compensation
Benefits
Company
Aurora Innovation
Aurora Innovation helps companies, businesses and organisations with many incoming calls, high availability requirements as well as service.
Founded in 1996
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
Aurora Innovation has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$3.11M2017-04-05Series Unknown· $3.11M
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