[Hiring] Director, Software Engineering @Blue River Technology

Role Description

As Director of Software Engineering, your mission is to:

• Drive additional value for our customers.
• Scale the reach of our technology.

You will lead the transition from a specialized high-tech feature to a global standard, ensuring our software architecture can support tens of thousands of machines operating simultaneously across diverse crops, continents, and climates.

Job Responsibilities

• Architectural Ownership: Ensure our software architecture scales to enhance maintainability and developer velocity. You will ensure the codebase is modular, intuitive, and effective for hundreds of engineers to contribute to simultaneously.
• Virtualization & Simulation: Drastically reduce the cost and cycle time of on-machine testing. You will champion robust simulation environments and Hardware/Software-in-the-loop (HIL and SIL) testing to ensure code is field-ready before it ever touches a sprayer.
• Strategic Product Partnership: Work hand-in-hand with Product Management to deliver high-impact customer value while maintaining a healthy balance of engineering excellence. You will navigate the trade-offs between rapid feature delivery and long-term architectural health.
• Team Leadership & Growth: Recruit, mentor, and scale a world-class software engineering organization. You aren't just managing tasks; you are building a culture of empowerment, technical curiosity, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software engineering.
• At least 5 years of experience in technical team management.
• Proven track record of managing large-scale, complex distributed systems (ideally involving hardware/robotics).
• A passion for building software that engineers love to work on.
• Experience building sophisticated simulation environments to reduce reliance on physical prototyping.
• Deep familiarity with C, C++, Python, Linux-based computing, CAN & Ethernet-based networks, as well as GPU, CPU and AI/ML architecture fundamentals and low-level performance optimizations.

Requirements

• The ability to distill complex architectural challenges into clear, actionable narratives for non-technical stakeholders and executive leadership.
• Provide direct, empathetic feedback to your team and challenge the status quo to protect engineering integrity.
• Excel at building bridges among hardware, software, and operational teams.
• Represent See & Spray’s technical vision at conferences, recruiting events, and internal town halls.
• A history of scaling products while increasing delivery speed.
• A drive to use your technical expertise to drive positive environmental impact through large-Ag systems.

Preferred Experience and Skills

• Experience developing on ARM-based NVIDIA platforms.
• Proven experience managing geographically distributed teams.
• Startup experience.

Benefits

• US annual base salary range for this position is $200,000 - $352,000.
• Eligibility for Blue River’s bonus and benefit programs.