Tag: aurora
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Hiring leaders at Rivian, Tesla, and Amazon’s self-driving startup reveal their top tips for landing a job
Rivian executives described their hiring priorities in an interview with Insider. Jeff Johnson/Rivian Insider has interviewed hiring leaders at auto-tech firms like Rivian, Waymo, and Amazon-owned Zoox. They've described the details they care most about when reading résumés and conducting interviews. And they've shared the red flags that will hurt a job candidate's chances of…
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The Station: Rivian rolls towards an IPO and Quantumscape makes a big battery hire
The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox. Hello and welcome back to The Station, a weekly newsletter dedicated to all the ways people and packages move (today and in the future) from Point A to…
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Aurora VP Jinnah Hosein is coming to TC Sessions: Robotics + AI
TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics + AI is tomorrow and we have one more exciting speaker statement to talk about. Jinnah Hosein, the vice president of applications technology in self-driving automobile startup Aurora, is coming to TC Sessions: Robotics AI in UC Berkeley on March 3. Hosein will combine Ike Robotics CTO and co-founder Jur van den Berg…
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Fresh off a $530M round, Aurora acquires lidar startup Blackmore
Aurora, the self-driving Automobile startup backed by Sequoia Capital and Amazon, is in an acquiring mood. The company, founded in early 2017 by Chris Urmson, Sterling Anderson and Drew Bagnell, announced Thursday that it acquired lidar company Blackmore. The Blackmore purchase follows a second smaller, and previously unknown, acquisition of 7D Labs that occurred earlier…