Lead Vehicle Reliability Technician

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Lead Vehicle Reliability Technician in USA

Aurora
Full time
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USA
09/17/2026
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Pittsburgh, PA

Responsibilities

Serve as the senior technical escalation point for complex hardware and software issues affecting Aurora’s autonomous vehicle fleet.
Partner with onboard, platform, and cloud engineering teams to troubleshoot issues and drive them to root cause.
Design, build, deploy, own, and support internal tools and services that scale VRE troubleshooting.
Own and improve troubleshooting SOPs, runbooks, knowledge bases, triage processes, and escalation workflows.
Mentor and develop VRE engineers and technicians and set standards for troubleshooting and tooling quality.
Write incident summaries and translate engineering constraints into operational guidance for non-technical operations leads.

Requirements

5+ years of hands-on experience troubleshooting complex hardware and software systems in a live, real-time production or field support environment.
2+ years of software development experience using Python, Go, TypeScript, or C++, including end-to-end design, delivery, and maintenance of internal tools or services.
5+ years administering and troubleshooting Linux systems in a support capacity.
Experience mentoring or developing less experienced technical staff.
Strong technical writing skills and experience authoring SOPs, runbooks, design documents, or similar team documentation.
Ability to work independently and make sound engineering and operational decisions under time pressure in a safety-critical environment.
Desirable qualifications include automotive or autonomous-vehicle experience, lidar, radar, or camera sensor-system experience, monorepo or Bazel-based build systems, gRPC services, cloud-native architectures, ITIL or formal service-management frameworks, and strong computer networking knowledge.

Benefits

Hourly base pay is listed by location at $41.75-$66.75 per hour in Pittsburgh, PA and $46.25-$74.25 per hour in Mountain View, CA.
Eligible for benefits.
Hybrid work environment with employees expected to work in the office at least 3 days per week.

Aurora

Aurora builds the Aurora Driver, a self-driving system for heavy-duty trucks, and offers it as a driver-as-a-service to freight carriers. The company partners with truck OEMs and logistics networks, including Volvo Trucks, PACCAR, FedEx, Uber Freight, Werner, Schneider, and Ryder, to commercializ...

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