Data Engineer (Contractor, PST)

Santa Clara County, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About Blue River Technology

Were 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 wont give up until weve made a tangible and positive impact on agriculture.

We build the data backbone behind machines that are transforming agriculture.
Blue River Technology the team behind John Deeres See & Spray uses computer vision and machine learning to help farmers reduce herbicide use and grow smarter. Our ML Platform team needs a Data Engineer to keep that intelligence flowing.

Why Blue River
Youll work at the intersection of robotics ML and sustainability backed by the scale of John Deere. This isnt data engineering in a vacuum. The pipelines you build directly power machines working in real fields solving real problems.

What youll do

Own data pipelines end-to-end ingestion quality performance and reliability
Optimise queries and shape data architecture across the ML development lifecycle
Build and maintain ETL workflows that feed annotation exploration and model training
Support infrastructure scalability across AWS (S3 DynamoDB Lambda SQS and more)
Improve code quality through automation testing and peer reviews
Collaborate directly with roboticists backend engineers and platform teams

What you bring

2 years in backend engineering / data infrastructure
Strong Python skills
Hands-on experience with ETL pipelines and data architecture
Solid grasp of relational and non-relational databases
AWS services (S3 DynamoDB EC2 Lambda ECR SQS SNS)
Docker CI/CD (GitHub Actions or Jenkins)
Clear communicator who documents well and works cross-functionally
BS or MS Computer Science

Bonus points

Databricks / Apache Spark
Kubernetes in production
Terraform or CloudFormation

Compensation and Perks

This is a contractor role working with a small collaborative team of 5
Location preference is North America Pacific time zone
Hourly Rate starting at $70/hour

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About Blue River TechnologyWere 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 ye...