Backed by Khosla.
About the role
15+ years of professional experience in software engineering, data engineering, machine learning, robotics, or related technical disciplines. Deep experience building and operating large-scale data platforms, machine learning infrastructure, or cloud-native distributed systems.
What they're looking for
- Drive Platform & Product Delivery: Own the end-to-end software development lifecycle, ensuring scalable infrastructure, reliable deployments, operational excellence, and rapid delivery of customer-facing capabilities
- Scale for the Future: Build platforms capable of supporting Blue River's long-term "Individual Plant" vision by solving large-scale data management, cloud processing, edge computing, and machine learning challenges
- Provide Technical Leadership: Lead technical strategy through architecture reviews, design discussions, and engineering decision-making while balancing long-term platform investments with short-term product delivery
- Drive Customer Impact: Translate customer and grower needs into scalable platform capabilities that generate actionable insights from real-world agricultural data
- Influence Across Blue River & John Deere: Build strong partnerships across organizations, align stakeholders around technical strategy, and help drive adoption of shared platform capabilities
- Leadership & Organizational Experience
More about this role
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 aligns with John Deere’s vision to “innovate on behalf of humanity” by quickly identifying and solving high-value, high-uncertainty challenges in AI, machine learning, computer vision, and robotics. BRT acts as a research and development flywheel, building not only new products but also new platforms that reliably create value for both Deere and its customers. From fully autonomous machines to highly precise farming equipment, BRT and Deere are partnering to deliver technical breakthroughs across industries such as agriculture and construction.
Our people are at the heart of what we do. Through cross-disciplinary collaboration, this mission-driven team is eager to define the new frontier of robotics. We are always asking hard questions, rapidly...
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