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

At Optimus Ride, software engineers create the software at the heart of our vehicles and systems. Software engineering managers not only have the ability to roll up their sleeves and contribute to the code, but also manage and lead a team of engineers to build software for self-driving vehicles. You will manage your team's project goals, contribute to overall strategy, and help develop your team. The software your team builds will enable cars to drive themselves and provide people with new forms of mobility.

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

• Build software for self-driving cars by leading and managing a team of software engineers
• Take responsibility for the overall planning, execution and success of complex technical projects
• Provide the team with technical leadership and contribute technically to projects
• Work closely with other teams, especially within engineering and product development

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, or equivalent practical experience
• 3 years of hands-on technical leadership and people management experience
• Excellent software development skills using C++ or a JVM language (e.g., Java)

Bonus

• MS or PhD in computer science or a related degree
• Experience with robotics or AI applications (self-driving cars, real-time hardware-software systems, etc)

Domain expertise in one or more of the following

• Full stack web development
• Mobile application development
• Desktop application development
• Large scale data processing (ingest, storage, and processing)
• Real-time software systems
• Network and systems-level programming

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.