Principal Robotics Software Engineer

Blue River Technology; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue River Technology seeks a senior technologist to own the technical leadership and architectural direction for complex robotics software on autonomous platforms. The role emphasizes building safe, production-ready systems that influence vehicle behavior and data signals, while collaborating with hardware, perception, and product teams.

This is a full-time, remote role in the United States with visa sponsorship available.

Qualifications

• Principal-level experience designing and delivering software for robotics or autonomous systems.
• Strong architectural judgment across complex, distributed, or hardware-integrated software.
• Experience leading cross-disciplinary technical initiatives.
• Ability to balance autonomy with reliability, safety, and production constraints.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and delivery of complex robotics software systems.
• Set architectural direction for software that controls autonomous vehicles and changes their safety behavior.
• Build or integrate interfaces that provide access to important vehicle and system data signals.
• Make technical decisions across multiple engineering groups and maintain alignment on system design.
• Partner with hardware, perception, and product leaders to turn autonomy goals into production software.
• Mentor engineers and raise the quality, reliability, and maintainability of the robotics codebase.

Skills

Robotics software design

Autonomous vehicles

Safety-critical systems

Distributed architectures

Technical leadership

Mentoring engineers

Job description

Role overview

Own technical leadership and architectural direction for complex software running on autonomous platforms. The position focuses on building robust, safety-critical production systems that can influence vehicle safety behavior, control the vehicle, and expose valuable data signals. You will operate as a senior technical authority while partnering with hardware, perception, product, and other engineering teams to bring autonomy capabilities into reliable operation. The role is full-time and remote within the United States, with visa sponsorship available.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and delivery of complex robotics software systems.
• Set architectural direction for software that controls autonomous vehicles and changes their safety behavior.
• Build or integrate interfaces that provide access to important vehicle and system data signals.
• Make technical decisions across multiple engineering groups and maintain alignment on system design.
• Partner with hardware, perception, and product leaders to turn autonomy goals into production software.
• Mentor engineers and raise the quality, reliability, and maintainability of the robotics codebase.

Requirements

• Principal-level experience designing and delivering software for robotics, autonomous vehicles, or other safety-critical systems.
• Strong architectural judgment across complex, distributed, or hardware-integrated software systems.
• Experience leading technical initiatives that cross organizational and disciplinary boundaries.
• Ability to balance ambitious autonomy capabilities with reliability, safety, and production constraints.
• Effective communication and mentoring skills for guiding engineers and influencing system-level decisions.