Software Data Engineer, See & Spray

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 create technical breakthroughs in industries like agriculture and construction.

Summary

We are seeking a data-obsessed, solutions-oriented Software Engineer to join our team. This person will collaborate with multiple teams within BRT. They will be customer-oriented and will work with both internal and external customers. This team is core to the See and Spray strategy. We collect and upload petabytes of data every day, which we then use to train our models, improve our systems, and provide insights to our end customers. See and Spray is core to Deere's SaaS based growth strategy.

This person will help deliver the promise of Precision Agriculture to the world's farm fields. In this role, you will collaborate with our team to optimize image-processing systems for computer vision and machine learning using large datasets from our agricultural robotic systems. We tackle our objectives with multi-functional engineering teams of systems and embedded software, test and QA, mechatronics, computer vision, and machine learning engineers. Our team is empowered to figure out ho...