Who we are

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. For the latest news from Aurora, visit aurora.tech or follow us on LinkedIn.

What we are looking for

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.

We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Security Engineering Technical Leader to lead our Security Engineering team. This role is critical to ensuring enterprise, terminal factory, and endpoint security controls are designed, implemented, and operated effectively to support Aurora’s business operations, safety objectives, and risk posture.

In this role you will

• Serves as the technical authority for Enterprise Security Engineering.

• Lead hands-on design and implementation of enterprise security solutions.

• Review and approve technical designs to ensure alignment with enterprise security standards, risk-based prioritization, and operational sustainability.

• Define and maintain security goals and requirements for enterprise, terminal, factory, and endpoint environments.

• Ensure enterprise security services, including those supporting factory and terminal environments are reliable, scalable, and supportable.

• Act as a trusted technical partner for resolving complex or ambiguous security issues.

• Translate Enterprise Security strategy into clear, executable engineering roadmaps.

• Actively contribute to annual roadmap planning, including defining scope, sequencing, and dependencies, and providing input on feasibility, tradeoffs, and delivery risk.

• Drive execution of approved initiatives through disciplined delivery.

• Balance new initiatives, technical debt, and operational commitments.

• Establish and maintain runbooks, documentation, and operational processes.

• Act as an escalation point for enterprise security incidents, investigations, and remediation.

• Provide technical input, supporting artifacts, and zonal report to meet assigned Enterprise Security claims within the Safety Case.

• Lead and manage a team of technical security engineers; provide technical coaching and mentorship.

• Set clear expectations for ownership, accountability, decision-making, and escalation.

• Participate in internal and external audits as required.

• Other duties as assigned.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in security engineering, infrastructure security, or enterprise platform security.

• Proven experience leading engineers in a technical lead and manager role.

• Demonstrated technical capability to perform complex engineering work, including design, configuration, integration, and deployment of security tools and controls.

• Strong hands-on experience with enterprise security tooling, including endpoint protection and EDR/XDR (e.g., Crowdstrike), MDM/UEM, DLP, DNS filtering, network security scanning, WAF, DDoS mitigation, IAM platforms, PAM, PKI and cert management, and SIEM.

• Familiarity with Zero Trust and identity-centric security architectures.

• Experience supporting cloud security (AWS) controls and integrations.

• Familiarity with NIST, CSF, MITRE ATT&CK, and cyber threat modeling.

• Experience operating in environments that balance delivery velocity, operational reliability, governance, risk, and safety requirements.

• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills with proven ability to communicate clearly with all leadership levels.

• Comfort leading in an ambiguous, teamwork-oriented environment.

• Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.

• Ability to work effectively under pressure in a fast-paced environment.

Desirable qualifications

• Experience securing factory, manufacturing, or other operational environments.

• Experience supporting audits, compliance activities, or Safety Case efforts.

• Background in complex, safety-critical, or regulated environments.

• Experience with Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines and DevOps principles.

• Familiarity with systems architecture, distributed systems, and microservices.

• Professional security certifications such as CISSP, CISA, or CISM are preferred but not required.

The base salary range for this position is**$171,000 - $247,000** per** Year. Aurora’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.

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Working at Aurora:

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.

We believe in-person work increases collaboration, empathy and our ability to lead effectively. As a result, we operate in a hybrid work environment where Aurorans are in office at least 3 days per week.

Our Careers page provides insight into what it is like to work at Aurora, and you can find all the latest updates in our Newsroom.

Our commitment to safety

At 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.

Our commitment to inclusion

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.

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