About Optimus Ride

Optimus Ride is a self-driving technology company working to enable safe, sustainable, and equitable mobility solutions. We aim to transform cities and lead the way for a more sustainable future through the introduction of self-driving technologies.

Optimus Ride is based in the Boston Seaport District. Our team hails from a diverse set of backgrounds, and cumulatively has decades of experience building self-driving vehicles, electric vehicles, manufacturing robots, surgical robots, autonomous drones, and more. We aim for a highly collaborative, hands-on, and open environment where peers learn from each other while building technologies for real-world environments.

The Role

We are looking for software engineers to lead the technical implementation of our autonomous vehicle fleets at our deployment sites. You will be engaging customers who are eager to be first adopters of cutting-edge technologies, and enabling self-driving systems to be possible today.

Working at Optimus Ride, you will innovate with engineers and designers who cumulatively have decades of experience in computer vision, machine learning, sensing and actuation, human-machine interface, and design. You will work with peers who cumulatively have decades of experience from places like Google X, SpaceX, iRobot, Rethink Robotics, Draper Laboratories, Zipcar, and have built self-driving vehicles, electric vehicles, manufacturing robots, surgical robots, autonomous drones, and more.

Our team is focused on a rapid path to market, in order to maximize the benefits of self-driving technologies for all. To do this, we need team members to be versatile, have leadership qualities, and be enthusiastic about tackling problems across the full range of our systems.

Responsibilities

• Build software for a self-driving vehicle
• Deploy autonomous vehicle fleets to pilot and deployment locations on-site
• Work with testing team to conduct on-site integration and test activities
• Ensure that vehicle software and systems fulfill product requirements
• Analyze logs and translate issues into software and hardware bugs
• Translate external stakeholder product requests into technical specifications and project plans

Requirements

• BS in computer science, robotics or a related field, or equivalent work experience
• Experience with software engineering using C++
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong interest in self-driving vehicles
• Interest and ability to learn additional skills and technologies as required

Bonus

• Experience with robotics, autonomous vehicles, AI or other complex software / hardware systems
• Experience with project management tools like Asana, JIRA, YouTrackMe, etc.
• Experience writing production quality code
• Experience shipping products to customers

(We are open to reviewing resumes of candidates who may not have these qualities yet, but demonstrate the potential to learn them on the job)

Benefits and Working EnvironmentAt Optimus Ride, we strive to support our employees by offering competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits and a world class working environment that is centered around the team. We nurture creativity and provide expansive opportunities for growth and development.