Blue River Technology

Sr Robotics Software Engineer

Blue River Technology · Santa Clara, CA
Santa Clara, CA $138K–$261K Posted 2026-09-29
Salary
$138K–$261K
Type
Full-time
Experience
2+ yr

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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