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Senior Robotics Software Engineer

Blue River Technology
Posted onFeb 14, 2026
LocationSanta Clara, California, United States (Hybrid)
Employment typeFull-time
Salary$158.6k – $261k Yearly

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

  • Work on real-time robotics software to automate agricultural equipment
  • Run and refine complex agricultural machines that unite vision-based deep learning, distributed computing, and precise sensing and actuation to reliably execute operations in the field
  • Investigate and solve difficult, unsolved challenges in sensing, actuation, and autonomous operations to push machine performance forward
  • Integrate a wide variety of sensing, computing, actuation, and user interface hardware and software to achieve machine performance goals.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field plus 3 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 (2 yrs)
    • Use git and Bazel to build, test, and deploy vehicle software and firmware (2 yrs)
    • Develop pub-sub systems that interact with sensors and actuators on robotics systems via CAN and Ethernet (2 yrs)
    • Experience building end-to-end testing solutions for data-driven software, including unit, integration, HIL, and regression testing (2 yrs)
    • Implement vehicle software utilizing ROS, and robotics software packages such as AOS, Flatbuffers, Protobufs (3 yrs).
    • May work remotely; periodic time in office required; must live within commuting distance of office. Up to 20% domestic and international travel required.

The US annual base salary range for this position is $158,621 - $261,000, along with eligibility for Blue River’s bonus and benefit programs. Please visit https://bluerivertechnology.com/join-us/ to apply. 

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Blue River Technology is an agricultural robotics company that builds intelligent machinery using computer vision, machine learning, and robotics to help farmers optimize chemical usage and improve sustainability.

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