# Tunnel RF Instrumentation Engineer at The Boring Company

- Company: The Boring Company
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://www.boringcompany.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Bastrop, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-21
- Apply by: 2026-11-05
- Apply: https://jobs.gem.com/the-boring-company/am9icG9zdDrUPWh1vt_k30INFbMTA8JN
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/the-boring-company-tunnel-rf-instrumentation-engineer/

## 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