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About the Role

Aurora's mission is to deliver the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly. We are searching for a PhD to serve as our technical pathfinder in the realm of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, identifying and rebuilding architecture from the ground up.

Responsibilities

• Architectural Exploration: Deep dive into VLM/VLA architectures to determine their viability for our specific problem sets.
• Technical Mentorship: Act as the subject matter expert and guide for an exceptionally capable engineering team eager to move into this space.
• Practical Implementation: Bridge the gap between high-level academic theory and practical, scalable applications.
• Innovation: Redesign and optimize model architectures to leverage high-performance computing environments like Aurora.

Requirements

• Recent PhD Graduate in AI, Computer Science, or Robotics (Top-tier research lab background)
• Deep expertise in Vision-Language Models (VLM) and Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models
• Hands-on experience with 'jagged edges'—knowing where current architectures fail and how to troubleshoot them
• Practical researcher: Ability to translate complex papers into production-ready code
• Collaborative Guide: Willingness to mentor existing team members and bridge the knowledge gap
• Excitement for large-scale infrastructure and supercomputing environments (e.g., Aurora)
• Architectural Creativity: Ability to rethink and redo entire model architectures rather than just fine-tuning

Skills

• Vision-Language Models (VLM)
• Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models
• Troubleshooting model architectures
• Translating academic papers to production code
• Mentoring engineering teams
• Large-scale infrastructure
• Supercomputing environments
• Model architecture redesign and optimization

Location

• Remote

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Mid-Senior
• PhD Graduate

Education Level

• PhD

About the Company

• Aurora’s mission is to deliver the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly.
• The Aurora Driver will create a new era in mobility and logistics, one that will bring a safer, more efficient, and more accessible future to everyone.
• At Aurora, you will tackle massively complex problems alongside other passionate, intelligent individuals, growing as an expert while expanding your knowledge.
• Aurora 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.
• At 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.
• Our commitment to safety is at the core of everything we do. 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.

Equal Opportunity

• Aurora 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.
• If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at careersiteaccommodations@aurora.tech.
• For California applicants, information collected and processed as part of your application and any job applications you choose to submit is subject to Aurora’s California Employment Privacy Policy.