Senior Autonomy Development Engineer

Technology, Digital and Data

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The Operator Safety Systems Senior Developer develops and delivers production-quality software that helps protect operators, personnel, and equipment in heavy equipment environments. This role applies strong software engineering practices to design, implement, integrate, validate, and support software for operator safety capabilities used in mining, construction, and other demanding applications.

Working with a high degree of independence, this developer contributes hands-on technical expertise to the Operator Safety Systems team, with responsibility for robust C++ software, sensor and camera integration, operator awareness features, machine interaction logic, diagnostics, and field-supportable software solutions. The role collaborates closely with systems, validation, product, UI/UX, hardware, and field teams to translate safety-system needs into reliable software that can be deployed and supported across machine platforms.

• Design, implement, test, and release production-quality C/C++ software for Operator Safety Systems on heavy equipment
• Develop and integrate software components that support operator awareness, personnel detection, collision mitigation support, in-cab alerts, event capture, diagnostics, and safety-oriented machine responses
• Build and maintain camera, sensor, perception, and data-processing pipelines for real-time or near-real-time safety applications
• Participate across the full software development lifecycle including design, documentation, coding, unit testing, integration, validation support, and release readiness
• Collaborate with systems engineering, validation, product, UI/UX, hardware, and field teams to translate operator safety needs into clear software requirements and implementation plans
• Support implementation of operator-facing workflows, displays, configuration screens, alerts, and user interactions in partnership with UI/UX teams
• Troubleshoot complex software and system issues using logs, traces, telemetry, sensor data, profiling tools, and field observations
• Contribute to software architecture and design trade-off discussions with a focus on reliability, maintainability, latency, diagnosability, usability, and field supportability
• Facilitate and participate in design reviews, code reviews, debugging sessions, and technical discussions across cross-functional engineering teams
• Communicate technical designs, trade-offs, risks, and status clearly to developers, systems engineers, stakeholders, and leadership
• Mentor and support other engineers through collaboration, technical guidance, and strong development practices

• Programming:
  • Advanced C/C++ development experience for production software in embedded, edge, robotics, perception, machine control, or safety-oriented systems
  • Ability to interpret system designs, software requirements, interface definitions, and test expectations for complex operator safety features
  • Strong engineering practices, including modular design, debugging, profiling, code review, static analysis, and maintainable implementation
  • Ability to apply structured software design practices in systems with real-time, reliability, usability, and field-support constraints
• Software Development Life Cycle:
  • Experience contributing across software…