Principal Robotics Engineer, Autonomous Systems

🕒 August 20

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $174k - $305k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🤖 Robotics

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Blue River Technology

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2011

🌾 Agriculture

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🔧 Hardware

Agriculture • Artificial Intelligence • Hardware

Blue River Technology is at the forefront of agricultural innovation, developing intelligent machinery designed to improve farming yields and reduce environmental impacts. By integrating robotics, computer vision, and machine learning, the company is revolutionizing agriculture through a unique blend of Silicon Valley tech and hands-on fieldwork. Their purpose is to tackle significant challenges in agriculture, optimize chemical usage, and drive global sustainability, all while fostering an engaged and collaborative company culture.

📋 Description

• Define the engineering strategy and technical roadmap for the robotics stack for Blue River's autonomous construction program • Make build-vs-reuse-vs-buy decisions on critical subsystems and drive them to execution • Design safeguarding systems and safety architectures for heavy autonomous equipment • Work with mechatronics, platform, and field operations teams on system integration, bring-up, and field validation • Mentor and elevate engineers • Own architecture across localization, planning, controls, and safeguarding • Identify shared approaches across autonomy programs, improve code reuse, and increase company-wide engineering velocity • Shape foundational architecture decisions for autonomous construction systems

🎯 Requirements

• Architected and shipped autonomous systems, making structural decisions on robotics or autonomous vehicle programs through production • Deep, broad technical judgment across the robotics technical stack • Track record of making technical decisions across team boundaries and building consensus • Ability to operate in ambiguity and drive ill-defined problems to results • Strong software skills, including production code and code review in compiled languages • Strong opinions about software architecture, testing, and code quality • 10+ years in robotics, autonomous vehicles, or related industries, or equivalent depth with fewer years and a graduate degree • Experience with off-highway, construction, or agriculture autonomy preferred • Familiarity with autonomous vehicle safety practices, including hazard analysis, safe behavior design, and runtime monitoring preferred • Experience building and scaling robotics teams and codebases from early-stage to production preferred • Open to visa sponsorship

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual performance bonus • Competitive benefit package • Recruiting, mentorship, career development, and learning & development programs • Reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities • Inclusive workplace supporting a thriving career and meaningful, challenging mission