# Senior Software Engineer, Computation at Aurora Solar

- Company: Aurora Solar
- What the company does: Residential solar design and sales solutions that are accurate at every stage, from design to signed permit, with physics-based accuracy. Backed by Pear VC, ICONIQ and Lux.
- Company website: https://aurorasolar.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: United States
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $140K to $227K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-16
- Apply by: 2026-10-31
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/aurorasolar/900df453-aa45-444e-974f-12bf2b3d3118
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/aurora-solar-senior-software-engineer-computation/

## About the role

As a Senior Software Engineer on the System Design Pod, you'll help build the next generation of PV and storage design tools at Aurora. You'll lead technical features from discovery through general release, propose new mathematical approaches to long-standing problems, and push our simulation and optimization work forward alongside a team that cares deeply about getting it right.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with a strong backend foundation
- Academic background or equivalent skillset in computational mathematics, optimization, linear algebra, control theory, or numerical algorithms
- Hands-on experience with simulation or optimization
- Experience designing and building APIs, microservices, or data pipelines at scale
- Sharp algorithmic thinking, with the ability to reason about performance, correctness, and edge cases in computational systems
- Proficiency in one or more backend languages. Our stack is C++, Python, and Ruby, and relevant experience in other languages is welcome

Tags: Engineering