EXCAR doesn't have a careers page in the traditional sense — no job board, no recruiter pipeline. What we have is a working prototype, a long list of things to build next, and room for the right person to make an outsized difference early.
Right now, EXCAR is a Raspberry Pi wired into a 2015 Mazda, a codebase three people know by heart, and a roadmap that's still being shaped by what we learn from real drives. Joining now means decisions you make — about architecture, about how EXCAR sounds, about what it should never do — become part of the foundation.
It also means real constraints: limited runway, hardware that sometimes needs a hard reset, and a team small enough that "someone else will handle it" usually isn't true. If that sounds more exciting than exhausting, you might be a good fit.
These aren't formal job postings with fixed scopes — they're honest descriptions of where an extra set of hands or a different perspective would help most right now.
EXCAR runs on real hardware connected to a real car's OBD-II port. We need someone comfortable with low-level systems work — power management, hardware interfaces, and making sure a device under a dashboard survives a New England winter.
Working alongside our AI lead on quantizing and optimizing a multilingual language model to run fully offline, with latency low enough that EXCAR still feels alive without a network connection.
The companion iOS app handles onboarding, voice enrollment, memory management, and device status. There's a clear backlog of features to take it from beta to release-ready.
Expanding EXCAR's plugin system beyond Mazda — researching OBD-II quirks, dashboard integration points, and steering-wheel controls across other car manufacturers.
EXCAR needs to look like it belongs under a dashboard — compact, unobtrusive, and durable. We're looking for someone who can take it from "Raspberry Pi in a project box" to a real product.
If you read through everything above and thought "none of those quite fit, but here's what I'd bring instead" — that's a good reason to reach out. Small teams benefit from people who don't fit neatly into a box.
No resume parsing, no application tracker. Send a few lines about what you're interested in and why EXCAR caught your attention — one of us will read it and reply personally.