Abhishek Mohta is a Staff Software Engineer at Aurora, focusing on building self-driving trucks and passenger vehicles. He specializes in sensor fusion, object detection, and tracking within Aurora's Perception team. Previously, he worked at Uber ATG, which later merged with Aurora. Abhishek holds an MS in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and dual bachelor's degrees in Economics and Computer Science from BITS Pilani, India.

The Pop in Your Job – What drives you? Why do you love your job?
One of my greatest driving forces is to enhance human efficiency. I'm passionate about using technology to automate repetitive tasks, enabling people to focus on upskilling and using their time effectively. We're witnessing a transformative era with robots, chatbots, and self-driving cars becoming reality. Imagine the collective potential of humanity freed from driving millions of cars. I love my job because I contribute daily to this progress, collaborating with brilliant minds to solve challenging, unsolved problems—it's incredibly motivating and fulfilling.

Aurora is delivering the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly. Founded in 2017 by experts in the self-driving industry, Aurora is revolutionizing transportation – making it safer, increasingly accessible, and more reliable and efficient than ever before. Its flagship product, the Aurora Driver, is a platform that brings together software, hardware, and data services, to autonomously operate passenger vehicles, light commercial vehicles, and heavy-duty trucks. Aurora is partnered with industry leaders across the transportation ecosystem.