The Boring Company builds safe, fast-to-dig, low-cost transportation, utility and freight tunnels — solving traffic with Loop, powered by the Prufrock tunnel boring machine. Backed by Sequoia.
About the role
This role will own the design and development of RF systems for our tunnel boring machines and supporting equipment. Key applications include underground utility detection, geotechnical remote sensing, and localization of underground structures and vehicles. You will work directly with manufacturing, mechanical, controls, and field teams to design RF systems that are practical to build, operate, troubleshoot, and continuously improve.
What they're looking for
- Own the electrical and software design of RF and wave-physics systems for tunnel boring machines, including radar, sonar, seismic, magnetic, and other advanced imaging and detection systems
- Perform first-principles analysis and physics simulations to drive component selection and overall system feasibility to the desired performance
- Develop and execute test campaigns in the lab and the field to de-risk and qualify designs for production
- Drive rapid iteration and deployment in a vertically integrated team, turning concepts into operational hardware-software solutions
- Bachelor’s degree in Software, Electrical, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical discipline
- Experience designing and building RF sensing systems, preferably radar/tracking systems or systems operating in challenging propagation, low-SNR, or underground VLF/ULF environments
More about this role
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.
This role will own the design and development of RF systems for our tunnel boring machines and supporting equipment. Key applications include underground utility detection, geotechnical remote sensing, and localization of underground structures and vehicles. You will work directly with manufacturing, mechanical, controls, and field teams to design RF systems that are practical to build, operate, troubleshoot, and continuously improve.
Responsibilities
- Own the electrical and software design of RF and wave-physics systems for tunnel boring machines, including radar, sonar, seismic, magnetic, and other advanced imaging and detection systems
- Perform first-principles analysis and physics simulations to drive component selection and overall system feasibility to the desired performance
- Develop and execute test campaigns in the lab...
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