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Software Engineer (Planning)

Sabanto · Greater Chicago, IL · On-site

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About Sabanto

Sabanto develops autonomous technology that enables existing agricultural tractors to perform field operations with minimal on-site operator involvement. Backed by DCVC (Data Collective).

About the role

We believe the agriculture industry’s lack of labor will drive the adoption of Farming-as-a-Service companies using autonomous equipment. It’s this very spirit that drives us to build a robotic machinery platform, delivering a service that brings unprecedented efficiency, productivity, and cost to farmers. Join our fast-growing, industrious, and passionate team of innovators as we continue to disrupt the multi-billion-dollar agriculture industry.

What they're looking for

  • Bachelor’s in computer science or a related field
  • Strong quantitative, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with comfort reasoning about geometry and spatial data
  • An entrepreneurial attitude with a keen eye for detail
  • Organized, disciplined, and can manage multiple priorities simultaneously
  • Industrious – ideally can drive, or willing to learn to drive, tractors, and anything with four wheels
  • Ag-gnostic – can walk up to a farmer, talk the talk, walk the walk, i.e. not intimidated
More about this role

Sabanto is a venture-backed, Illinois-based technology company on a mission to drive autonomy into agriculture.

We believe the agriculture industry’s lack of labor will drive the adoption of Farming-as-a-Service companies using autonomous equipment. It’s this very spirit that drives us to build a robotic machinery platform, delivering a service that brings unprecedented efficiency, productivity, and cost to farmers. Join our fast-growing, industrious, and passionate team of innovators as we continue to disrupt the multi-billion-dollar agriculture industry.

As a Full Stack Engineer at Sabanto, you will be building the web and api platform that powers the orchestration of vehicle configuration, data pipeline processing and the interfaces that our customers use day-to-day when operating their vehicles.

  • Maintain and extend the cloud path planning engine — coverage paths, headland generation, turn optimization, and safe traversals — for autonomous agricultural robots operating in the field
  • Diagnose and resolve issues seen by customers related to field coverage in complex, real-world field geometries (holes, waterways, irrigation systems)
  • Build and harden geospatial data pipelines...

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