Software Engineer The Boring Company
Hawthorne, CA

Job Description

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.

Responsibilities

* Design and implement software for the next generation of tunnel boring operations.
* Implement software tools to assist operations and production.
* Build high-performance data visualization, processing and analysis tools that drive engineering.
* Develop and deploy safety critical embedded software and firmware for large machinery and autonomous vehicles.
* Simulate future tunnel boring machines and dramatic improvements in mining speed.

Basic Qualifications

* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent field.
* 2+ years industry experience in practical software development projects, with strong C/C++ coding skills.

Preferred Skills and Experience

* Ability to quickly adapt to new projects and learn new languages, technologies and concepts under tight time constraints.
* Extensive experience developing large software applications in C, C++ or Go with high performance requirements.
* Experience working with scripting languages: Python and/or Javascript.
* Extensive experience with Web Technologies: HTML, CSS, JS and at least one of jQuery, React, Angular, Vue or similar.
* Deep understanding of how to develop Web APIs including concepts such as REST.
* Deep understanding of networking.
* Experience writing code for safety critical real-time systems. Experience working with an RTOS is a plus.
* Experience working with embedded and automotive technologies such as CAN.
* Excellent problem solving and analytical thinking skills.

Additional Requirements

* Ability to work long hours and weekends as necessary.

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.