Leads the design and implementation of scalable full-stack software and algorithms for intelligent agricultural robots. Improves system architecture, performance, latency, reliability, and chemical application accuracy. Develops real-time C++ software for Linux, robotics communication systems, vehicle software, and testing solutions. Mentors engineers, leads cross-functional collaboration, and supports field testing, data collection, research, and customer deployments.
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.
Job 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.
The US annual base salary range for this position is $138,237 - $261,000, along with eligibility for Blue River’s bonus and benefit programs.
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