Senior Software Engineer

TOMRA; Auckland; On-site; NZD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

TOMRA is seeking a Senior Software Developer to innovate and develop software for high-performance sorting applications using computer vision and AI. This R&D role involves collaborating with application engineers, guiding the team towards excellence, and ensuring the delivery of reliable solutions.

Benefits

Birthday leave

Onsite car parking

Professional training and development

Kiwisaver employer contribution

Qualifications

• 5+ years in industry automation, machinery, or engineering sectors.
• Fluent in spoken and written English.
• Experience with frameworks and libraries like .NET, MFC, WPF, and others.

Responsibilities

• Architect and develop high-performance software for optical sorting.
• Engage in design reviews and provide peer feedback.
• Ensure compliance with cybersecurity standards.

Skills

Problem Solving

Software Development

C++

C#

Agile

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

.NET

Azure DevOps

OpenCV

Qt

Job description

TOMRA Food is a multinational organization and a leading provider of sensor-based sorting, peeling and integrated post-harvest solution for the food industries. Transforming global food production to maximize food safety and minimize food loss by making sureEvery Resource Counts, has been our strength for over 50 years.

At TOMRA , we want people toinnovate, showpassionin their work and beresponsible. We encourage the freedom to innovate and take risks that result in breakthroughs that challenge the status quo. We value passion that focuses and commits to meeting success. We believe in a responsible and safe mindset that takes care of our customers, products, and fellow employees.

Join the resource revolution !

Job Description

As a Senior Software Developer, you will play a key role in architecting and developing the software that powers our flagship optical sorting application, which sorts tens of thousands of fruit per minute in a real-time industrial setting using computer vision and AI. Your technical expertise will drive innovation and ensure the delivery of high-performance, reliable solutions. Reporting to the Software & AI Lead, you will collaborate closely with our Application Engineers—professionals who work directly with customers to validate software changes and ensure our solutions address real-world needs. In this global R&D role, you will also support our regional service teams by equipping them with the tools and knowledge required to maintain and optimize systems in the field.

About the role

Technical Leadership

• Encourage values of innovation, passion and responsibility within the team to build a healthy and high-performance environment.
• Peer review team members work and provide constructive feedback.
• Engage constructively in design reviews.

Development

• Write consistently great code.
• Produce appropriately detailed designs that achieve the requirements.
• Create tools when necessary to instrument and monitor systems.
• Provide technical advice and contribute to technical decisions and requirements.
• Make accurate time estimates and deliver on those estimates.
• Develop customer knowledge and understand industry trends.
• Cross functional engineering awareness to support project work.
• Ensure compliance with cybersecurity standards and best practices to protect ICS from vulnerabilities and threats.
• Design and implement comprehensive testing plans to assess and improve product developments.
• Follow our software development processes.
• Continuous improvement of existing products and finding ways to improve work and cost efficiency.
• Provide technical support for customers and TOMRA employees, working constructively with customers directly, as well as service departments and other design teams
• Occasional site visits domestically and internationally to support and test, new and existing products or designs

Software Technical

• Design and develop software for our high-performance fruit grading products, primarily using C++ and C#.
• Create and enhance software applications for our high-performance machines, including dashboards, reports, and other customer-centric tools.
• Maintain and optimize tooling such as CI/CD infrastructure and code repositories to ensure efficient development workflows.

Qualifications

About you

We're looking for someone who enjoys solving difficult problems and has the ability to learn and adapt to the different technologies we use as needed. The below list provides a flavour of some current technologies we use.

• 5+ years, preferably in the industry automation, machinery, or engineering sectors.
• Fluent in spoken and written English; proficiency in other languages is a plus.
• Frameworks and Libraries: .NET, MFC, WPF, Blazor, Qt, PyTorch, React, OpenCV.
• Project Management: Targetprocess, Azure Devops, Agile, NPD and Stage gate.
• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science or a related field

Travel:

• Ability to work in an open office environment as well as industrial customer worksites.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally, 1 – 4 weeks a year.

Additional Information

Why work for us:

• Birthday leave - have a day off on us!
• Onsite car parking
• We love innovation, so we offer a collaborative environment where idea sharing and thinking outside the box is encouraged
• You may also know us as an award-winning Kiwi success story — a company that continually strives for greatness, with a proud history and an ambitious vision for the future as TOMRA
• Global career opportunities with a strong record for promoting internally
• Professional training and development: We are passionate about people and seeing them succeed.
• We care for the planet and want to make a difference for the future
• Kiwisaver employer contribution paid on top of base salary

At TOMRA we proudly recognise cultural diversity, inclusiveness of thought and individuals to create a great working environment for our employees. So, even if you don’t think you tick all the boxes and the requirements, but you have what it takes, we would still like to hear from you.