We are seeking a highly motivated individual to join our team as a junior/early-career Test Automation Engineer. This position supports our core engineering teams and works in a multi-disciplinary environment with the mission of building robust testing infrastructure for our systems. Our ideal candidate (you!) will play a crucial role in building hardware and software hybrid simulators, as well as developing the automation required to configure, deploy, and test systems within a Continuous Integration (CI) environment. You have strong debugging skills, a hands-on approach to problem-solving, and a drive to develop new capabilities. Your contributions will be instrumental in ensuring the reliability and success of our deployments in the field.
Employment Type: Full-Time
Work Location: Santa Clara - Flex (at least 3 days/week)
Visa Sponsorship: Not available for this role
Job Responsibilities
A combination, not necessarily all-inclusive, of the following:
- Build, maintain, and interact hands-on with hardware and software hybrid simulators.
- Develop and maintain automation to configure, deploy, and test complex systems within a CI environment.
- Proactively design and develop new testing and simulation capabilities to meet evolving engineering needs.
- Collaborate on debugging and troubleshooting complex hardware-software integration issues across various environments.
- Work on-premises to physically configure, modify, and test hardware simulators.
Required Experience and Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (CS), Computer Engineering (CE), Electrical Engineering (EE), or a related field.
- 2-5 years of relevant engineering work experience.
- Proficiency in Python and general scripting languages, experience in C++
- Comfortable working and debugging in both Windows and Linux environments.
- Strong debugging, problem-solving, and analytical skills with a keen attention to detail.
- Willingness to take ownership and develop new capabilities from the ground up.
- Proficiency in CI/CD automation toolchains (GitHub, Jenkins, Buildkite), virtualization and containers (Docker, Kubernetes) across Windows and Linux environments.
- Solid understanding of communication protocols (serial, CAN, Ethernet)
- Familiarity with real-time, distributed communication middleware (e.g., DDS standards, ROS 2, RTI Connext).
- Experience with C++ programming.
- Hands-on experience with HIL hardware and SIL plant models and development of abstraction layers.
- Hands-on electronics or automotive engineering experience.
- Experience with configuration management tools and infrastructure automation (e.g., Ansible).
- Familiarity with agricultural technology, agronomy, or farming.
Only individual applicants will be considered. We do not work with unsolicited third-party agencies or proxy interview services.
At Blue River, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package. For this position, the reasonably expected pay range is between $122,000 - $183,000/year for the level at which this job has been scoped. Your base pay will depend on several factors, including your experience, qualifications, education, location, and skills. This position is also eligible for an annual performance bonus and a competitive benefit package. During the recruitment process, we may identify an alternative role or level to which you are more suited. If your ideal role at Blue River differs from the advertised position, we will provide an updated pay range as soon as possible during the hiring process.
We’re passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. While we have more work to do to advance diversity and inclusion, we’re investing in our programs, including recruiting, mentorship, career development, and learning & development, to ensure they support our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion goals. We support each employee in living a full life, enabling a thriving career, and accomplishing a meaningful, challenging mission while collaborating with incredible people. We are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align completely with the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway.
We are an equal-opportunity employer and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
- 2-5 years of relevant engineering work experience
- Proficiency in Python and general scripting languages
- Experience with C++
- Ability to work and debug in Windows and Linux environments
- Strong debugging, problem-solving, analytical, and attention-to-detail skills
- Proficiency with CI/CD automation toolchains including GitHub, Jenkins, and Buildkite
- Experience with virtualization and containers including Docker and Kubernetes
- Understanding of serial, CAN, and Ethernet communication protocols
- Familiarity with real-time distributed communication middleware, such as DDS, ROS 2, or RTI Connext
- Experience with HIL hardware, SIL plant models, and abstraction layer development
- Hands-on electronics or automotive engineering experience
- Experience with configuration management and infrastructure automation tools such as Ansible
- Familiarity with agricultural technology, agronomy, or farming
What We Do
We’re Blue River, a team of innovators driven to radically change agriculture by creating intelligent machinery. We empower our customers – farmers - to implement more sustainable solutions: optimize chemical usage, reimagining routine processes, and improving farming yields year after year. We believe that focusing on the small stuff – pixel-by-pixel and plant-by-plant - leads to big gains. By partnering with John Deere, we are innovating computer vision, machine learning, robotics and product management to solve monumental challenges for our customers. Our people are at the heart of what we do. Through cross-discipline collaboration, this mission-driven and daring team is eager to define the new frontier of agricultural robotics. We are always asking hard questions, rapidly iterating, and getting our boots in the field to figure it out. We won’t give up until we’ve made a tangible and positive impact on agriculture.
