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

Optimus Ride software engineers create the software at the heart of our vehicles and systems. Our software needs to process complex dataflows and make decisions with real world consequences. We are looking for engineers who bring deep expertise in enabling vehicles and robots to move through and interact with the world around them.

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 our engineers to be versatile, have leadership qualities, and be enthusiastic about tackling problems across the full range of our systems. Your peers will cumulatively have decades of experience from places like Google X, SpaceX, iRobot, Rethink Robotics, and Draper Laboratories, and have built self-driving vehicles, electric vehicles, manufacturing robots, surgical robots, autonomous drones, and more. You will be creating new technologies through software development that integrates your areas of expertise to enable self-driving systems to be possible today.

Responsibilities

• Design and build embedded systems for real-time control of self-driving vehicles
• Hands-on bring-up, debugging, and optimization of production systems
• System level root cause analysis and solving of component and vehicle issues
• Unit test, component test, debug, and maintain safe production code
• Learn additional skills and technologies as required

Requirements

• BS, MS or PhD in computer science, electrical engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Excellent software development skills in C/C++
• Experience with ARM based microcontrollers
• RTOS development experience
• Experience with communications protocols such as I2C, UART, SPI, USB, MIPI, CAN, etc
• Experience with board bring up and systems debugging
• Significant experience writing production quality code

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with safety-critical applications
• Experience in automotive, aerospace engineering, or robotics
• Experience developing bootloaders and in-field update systems
• Experience with STM32 and NXP microcontrollers
• Experience with protocol design, specification, and implementation
• Experience with standards such as ISO26262 and DO-178C
• Familiarity with automotive ECUs

(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.)

Coding assessment: N 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.