Sr Robotics Engineer at Blue River Technology

<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Summary</strong></span></p> <p>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.&nbsp;</p> <p>Blue River Technology is based in Santa Clara, CA.&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Job Responsibilities</strong></span></p> <ul> <li>Develop simulation infrastructure in support of digital-twin simulation efforts, enabling testing and fast debug cycles.</li> <li>Define job site mapping workflow and develop tools to map job sites</li> <li>Work with related engineering teams to shape tool development for production or raw or semi-raw sensor inputs appropriate for simulation use cases</li> <li>Support and contribute to the development of C++ and Python robotics software.</li> <li>Design and support tools to visualize camera geometry, fields of view, and overlaps within multi-camera systems.</li> </ul> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Requirements</strong></span></p> <ul> <li>Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline<strong> </strong>plus 5 years of related experience.</li> <li>Required skills: <ul> <li>Develop camera visibility models incorporating camera intrinsics, distortion correction, extrinsics, and mechanical tolerances using Blender and OpenCV (4 yrs).</li> <li>Design and deploy distributed simulation systems using AWS cloud-based web services to enable scalable digital-twin environments with remote sensor data ingestion and real-time visualization (any amount of experience).</li> <li>Define and extend onboard and machine-to-machine communications using MQTT and DDS middleware and Protobuf and OMGIDL message schemas for publish-subscribe and request-reply communication models (1 yr, 6 mos).</li> <li>Develop real-time simulation tools utilizing ray tracing-based software to drive perception inputs (1 yr).</li> <li>Create and maintain relevant Bazel build targets to support scalable, reproducible, and efficient builds for multiple compute architectures across complex codebases (1 yr)</li> <li>100% remote working allowed; can live anywhere in the US; periodic visits to the office required. Up to 10% domestic travel required for engineering testing.</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p>The US annual base salary range for this position is $187,762 - $228,000, along with eligibility for Blue River’s bonus and benefit programs. Please visit https://bluerivertechnology.com/join-us/ to apply.&nbsp;</p> <p>#LI-DNI</p>