Transportant

Transportant provides hardware and software to make k12 student transportation transparent, safe, and efficient for students, parents, bus drivers, teachers and administrators. This includes providing high speed on bus wifi for students, bus status notifications to parents and students via mobile apps, cameras with live streaming audio and video, turn-by-turn directions for substitute drivers, ridership tracking and management, and added safety sensors. Started by 20 year veterans of the software security, supply chain, and mobile industries, Transportant is a small but senior technical team. Our customers are school systems across USA and Canada and are overjoyed with modern UX for transportation. We're hoping to meet an electrical engineer to review and help iterate our hardware. This role could be full time or contract. Responsibilities: - Assisting in physical product life cycle of our hardware (currently designing v4 hardware): - Architecture & design (including component selection, board layout, enclosure, cabling, and connections) - Testing & Manufacturing (working with partners to improve manufacturability, inspecting and critiquing test runs) - Troubleshooting (identifying problems, down to the component level) - Monitor, evaluate, and improve production & vehicle installation processes Requirements: - Have been involved with product development cycles of semi complex electronics with deployment at scale - Proficient use of common electronics tools and diagnostic instrumentation - Clear written documentation skills - Non-required bonus: skill with embedded development Application process is fast and simple: initial video conf with founders -> small work sample test or discussion of related previous projects -> offer/decline. No whiteboard tests! Please send an email to build@transportant.com to start the conversation.