The Boring Company was founded to solve the problem of soul-destroying traffic by creating an underground network of tunnels. Today, we are creating the technology to increase tunneling speed and decrease costs by a factor of 10 or more with the ultimate goal of making Hyperloop adoption viable and enabling rapid transit across densely populated regions.
As a Senior Software Engineer you will be responsible for helping build automation and application software for the next generation of tunnel boring machines (TBM), used to build new underground transportation systems and Hyperloops. This role can be varied across Back End, Full Stack, Embedded or all of the above. You'll work on designing and implementing tools to operate, analyze and control The Boring Company's TBMs. Within this role, you will have wide exposure to the overall system architecture.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop and maintain software across multiple domains - front end, back end, or embedded
- Support software engineering & controls team writing code for tunnel boring machine.
- Design and implement tunnel boring HMIs.
- Ownership of data pipeline.
- Visualize relevant data for different stakeholders using dashboards (e.g., Grafana)
- Support and improve build pipelines
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent field.
- Strong experience in software engineering with experience developing software applications in Python or C++
- Experience building real time data pipelines, preferably pulling from machinery/robotics
- Development experience in JavaScript, CSS and HTML
- Familiar with using SQL and NoSQL (time series) databases
- Comfortable working in ambiguous, evolving environments
- Ability and motivation to learn new skills rapidly
- Capable of working with imperfect information
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills
- Experience with embedded systems, real-time software, or device interfaces
- Experience in designing and testing user interfaces
- Knowledge of the protocols HTTP and MQTT
- Experience using and configuring CI/CD pipelines and in writing unit tests
- Experience working in Windows and Linux operating systems
- Work experience in agile teams is a plus
Additional Requirements
- Ability to work long hours and weekends as necessary.
CultureWe're a team of dedicated, smart, and scrappy people. Our employees are passionate about our mission and determined to innovate at every opportunity.
Benefits We offer employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage, a 401(k) plan, paid holidays, paid vacation, and a competitive amount of equity for all permanent employees.
The Boring Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with The Boring Company is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
