Senior Software Engineer, Calibration

Aurora Innovation
San Francisco, California / Seattle, Washington / SEA1, Seattle, Washington, United States2026-07-14

About the job

We’re searching for a Senior Software Engineer for the calibration team. The calibration team is responsible for ensuring all sensors on all vehicles remain well aligned to support higher-level autonomy functions. Our software ranges from low-level intrinsics models for our in-house FMCW lidar to high-level continuous/online calibration.

Responsibilities

Develop efficient algorithms to process sensor data in real-time.

End to end ownership including design, implementation, testing, deployment and maintenance of online calibration software for the vehicles.

Collaborate across multidisciplinary teams such as software, hardware, manufacturing, and operations.

Qualifications

Minimum

6+ years of professional experience building software for safety critical applications.

Proficiency in modern C++ (17+), with a focus on high-performance, production quality engineering.

Professional experience with both offline and online calibration techniques and frameworks.

Preferred

Experience in sensor calibration for cameras, lidars, radars, and/or IMUs.

Prior experience within robotics or autonomous vehicle domains.

Experience with Eigen or other linear algebra libraries.

Experience with Ceres or G2O or other optimization libraries.