Senior Robotics Software Engineer

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.

• Work on real-time robotics software to automate agricultural equipment
• Run and refine complex agricultural machines that unite vision-based deep learning, distributed computing, and precise sensing and actuation to reliably execute operations in the field
• Investigate and solve difficult, unsolved challenges in sensing, actuation, and autonomous operations to push machine performance forward
• Integrate a wide variety of sensing, computing, actuation, and user interface hardware and software to achieve machine performance goals.

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field plus 3 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 (2 yrs)
  • Use git and Bazel to build, test, and deploy vehicle software and firmware (2 yrs)
  • Develop pub-sub systems that interact with sensors and actuators on robotics systems via CAN and Ethernet (2 yrs)
  • Experience building end-to-end testing solutions for data-driven software, including unit, integration, HIL, and regression testing (2 yrs)
  • Implement vehicle software utilizing ROS, and robotics software packages such as AOS, Flat buffers, Protobufs (3 yrs).
  • May work remotely; periodic time in office required; must live within commuting distance of office. Up to 20% domestic and international travel required.

The US annual base salary range for this position is $158,621 - $261,000, along with eligibility for Blue River’s bonus and benefit programs.