Duties and Responsibilities
- Design and develop mechanical systems for self-driving vehicles, ensuring reliability, efficiency, and safety.
- Conduct detailed studies on the motion of various components and systems within the autonomous driving context.
- Employ rapid prototyping techniques to quickly iterate and refine mechanical designs.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including software engineers, to integrate mechanical systems with autonomous driving software.
- Conduct simulations and real-world testing to validate designs and systems.
- Stay abreast of the latest advancements in self-driving technologies and incorporate them into design and development processes.
- Troubleshoot and resolve mechanical issues in existing and new self-driving vehicle systems.
- Document design processes, analyses, and test results for knowledge sharing and future reference.
Qualifications and Experience
- Familiarity with interfacing sensors (cameras, lidars, radars, IMU, GPS), electronic control systems (DbW systems), and other components used in automated systems with unix-based systems.
- Familiarity with programming with C++/python on unix based platform.
- Working knowledge to troubleshoot and program for CAN and ethernet-based communications with sensors.
- Proficient with using lab equipment for designing, building, and testing.
- Ability to troubleshoot and improve existing equipment, design new equipment solutions, and ensure seamless integration of sensors and electronic control systems with software.
- Ability to program necessary tooling software to troubleshoot interfacing issues with next-gen sensors and electronic control units.
- Proficiency with 3D modeling CAD software (SolidWorks or Fusion360)
- B.S/ Master’s degree in computer science, Mechanical Engineering, with a focus on mechanics, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent.
Extra Credit
- Experience with robotic middleware like ROS1.0, ROS2.0, rqt, rviz
- Experience deploying software for unix-based prototyping boards (e.g.. NVIDIA Jetson, DRIVE PX, AGX platforms, etc.)
- Experience developing software on Real Time Operating Systems (QNX, RTLinux, VxWorks, etc.)
- Development of controls algorithms on unix-based platforms
- Time synchronization in a distributed architecture (PTP, NTP, etc.)
Top Skills
What We Do
BlueSpace.ai is a software company that was founded to solve the “black box” problem of perception and prediction in autonomous driving. Our team consists of AV industry veterans with an average 10+ years of experience each working in OEMs, world class research institutions, and autonomous driving companies. Collectively, we’ve had successful AV service launches in California, Texas, and Florida. Our software uses an innovative approach to perception and prediction that captures the full motion of any object. BlueSpace's revolutionary technology enables verifiable safety, high performance, and scalable deployment of any autonomous driving system that exists today








