Senior Robotics Software Engineer - Real-Time Agriculture

Blue River Technology; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 138,000 - 261,000; Full time

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Job summary

Blue River Technology, based in Santa Clara, CA, seeks a senior engineer to design and implement scalable full‑stack solutions and to mentor junior engineers. The role focuses on real‑time C++ software for robotics, system optimization, and cross‑functional collaboration to deliver high‑quality products.

Travel up to 20% for in-field testing and deployments; remote-friendly with periodic in-office work in Santa Clara. Competitive salary with bonus eligibility.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field.
• Real-time capable software in C++ for Linux.
• Experience benchmarking and reducing jitter in end-to-end latency.
• Git and Bazel used to build, test, and deploy vehicle software.
• Develop pub-sub systems interacting with CAN and Ethernet.
• End-to-end testing: unit, integration, HIL, regression testing.
• ROS and robotics packages such as AOS, Flatbuffers, Protobufs.

Responsibilities

• Leads the design and implementation of complex full stack solutions with focus on scalability.
• Identifies system inefficiencies and drives architectural improvements.
• Mentors junior engineers through coaching, code reviews, and knowledge sharing.
• Leads cross-functional collaboration to integrate features per specs.
• Leads algorithms for intelligent agricultural robots to improve chemical application accuracy and reduce redundancy.

Skills

C++ on Linux

Latency benchmarking

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Algorithm design for robotics

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field

Tools

Git

Bazel

ROS

AOS

Flatbuffers

Protobufs

Job description

Blue River Technology, based in Santa Clara, CA, seeks a senior engineer to design and implement scalable full‑stack solutions and to mentor junior engineers. The role focuses on real‑time C++ software for robotics, system optimization, and cross‑functional collaboration to deliver high‑quality products.

Travel up to 20% for in-field testing and deployments; remote-friendly with periodic in-office work in Santa Clara. Competitive salary with bonus eligibility.