Sr Robotics Software Engineer

Role Summary

We’re Blue River, a team of innovators driven to create intelligent machinery that solves monumental problems for our customers. We empower our customers – farmers, construction crews, and foresters - to implement safer and more sustainable solutions, driving increased profitability with less reliance on scarce labor. We believe that focusing on the small stuff – pixel-by-pixel and task-by-task - leads to big gains.

Blue River Technology is based in Santa Clara, CA.

Responsibilities

• Leads the design and implementation of complex full stack solutions, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability.
• Identifies system inefficiencies and drives architectural improvements, ensuring high-quality deliverables across projects.
• Mentors junior engineers, providing technical guidance and support through coaching, code reviews, and knowledge sharing.
• Leads cross-functional collaboration efforts, ensuring seamless integration of features and adherence to product specifications.
• The employee participates in, and often leads, the design and development of software algorithms for intelligent agricultural robots/machines. Specifically, efforts are focused on improving the accuracy of and reducing the redundancy of commercial agricultural chemical applications used in the growing and cultivating of large-scale crops.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field plus 2 years of related experience.
• Required skills:
• Develop real-time capable software in C++ for Linux.
• Experience with benchmarking and improving jitter in end-to-end latency (1 yr).
• Use git and Bazel to build, test, and deploy vehicle software and firmware (1 yr).
• Develop pub-sub systems that interact with sensors and actuators on robotics systems via CAN and Ethernet (1 yr).
• Experience building end-to-end testing solutions for data-driven software, including unit, integration, HIL, and regression testing (1 yr).
• Implement vehicle software utilizing ROS and robotics software packages such as AOS, Flatbuffers, Protobufs (1 yr).
• May work remotely; periodic time in office required; must live within commuting distance of office.
• Up to 20% domestic and international travel required for in-field testing, data collection, R&D, and system deployments at customer sites.