Remote Lead Autonomous Systems Architect

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

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.