Autonomy Engineering Specialist - Operator Safety Systems

Technology, Digital and Data

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The Operator Safety Systems Senior Developer uses their experience to provide technical contribution in the design, development, integration, and deployment of production software that helps protect operators, personnel, and equipment in heavy equipment environments. Working with a high degree of independence, this role develops robust C++ software for perception-enabled safety features, operator awareness, and related safety-system capabilities used in mining, construction, and other demanding applications.

This individual serves as a hands‑on technical leader within an operator safety systems team that supports projects such as Collision Mitigation, Camera/Radar/Sensor Integration, Machine Vision and Perception Pipelines, and Embedded Edge Software for Heavy Equipment. In doing so, this person would be responsible for influencing software architecture, implementation quality, system integration practices, and engineering decisions while mentoring other developers and partnering closely with systems, validation, product, and field teams.

• Design, implement, test, and release production-quality C++ software for operator safety systems on heavy equipment
• Develop and integrate software components that support operator awareness, personnel detection, collision mitigation, and safety-oriented machine responses
• Build and maintain camera, sensor, and perception data pipelines for real-time or near-real-time safety applications
• Lead software architecture and design trade-off discussions with a focus on reliability, maintainability, latency, diagnosability, and field supportability
• Collaborate with systems engineering, validation, product, and field teams to translate safety-system needs into clear software requirements and implementation plans
• Troubleshoot complex software and system issues using logs, traces, telemetry, sensor data, profiling tools, and field observations
• Facilitate design reviews, code reviews, debugging sessions, and technical discussions across cross-functional engineering teams
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to developers, systems engineers, stakeholders, and leadership
• Mentor engineers and improve team execution through strong development practices, technical guidance, and example

• Programming:
  • Advanced C++ development experience for production software in embedded, edge, robotics, perception, or safety-oriented systems
  • Interprets system designs, software requirements, interface definitions, and test expectations for complex safety-system features
  • Strong engineering practices, debugging/profiling skills.
  • Applies structured, maintainable software design practices in systems with real-time, reliability, and field-support constraints
• Software Product Design/Architecture:
  • Demonstrates experience designing software for complex systems involving sensors, perception, edge processing, machine interfaces, and safety-oriented behavior
  • Describes major software architecture alternatives and considerations.
  • Displays experience in estimating the time to develop a specific design of a proposed product.
  • Facilitates design reviews and walkthroughs.
  • Analyzes benefits and drawbacks of specific software designs and architecture.
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