Robotics Software Engineer at BudBreak Innovations

• Budbreak Innovations builds autonomous ground robots for commercial vineyards, berry farms, and
• orchards. Our platform captures high-resolution imagery, GNSS tracks, and LiDAR data across
• thousands of acres per season, powering crop scouting today and full field automation tomorrow. We
• are a Cornell spinout with active deployments across California and New York, and we are growing
• fast.
• As a one of the first engineers in the team, you will have a seat at the table on architecture decisions,
• technology selection, and how we scale our robotics platform from a single robot to a commercial fleet.
• This is not a feature-execution role. We are looking for someone who wants to own systems end to
• end, push back when the design is wrong, and carry work from prototype to production in the field.
• What you build will ship to real farms, affect real growers, and define the technical foundation of the
• company.
• **What you will work on:**

• Developing and maintaining software for GNSS, camera, IMU, and LiDAR sensor integration on our

edge computing platform

• Improving robot autonomy for vineyard row navigation including localization, row-end detection, and

obstacle response

• Developing on-edge data processing algorithms for real-time perception and field intelligence
• Diagnosing and resolving system-level issues including USB reliability, driver stability, and hardware

trigger timing in vibration environments

• Supporting field deployment and contributing to documentation that the operations team depends on

**What we are looking for:**

• Strong Python and C++ skills in a Linux environment
• Strong mathematical foundation in relevant areas such as linear algebra, probability, optimization, or

differential equations

• Familiarity with microcontrollers and embedded Linux platforms
• Familiarity with robotic perception and control algorithms and tools such as state estimation,

localization, navigation, or motion control

• Comfort debugging at the hardware-software boundary (GPIO, serial, USB, timing)