Blue River Technology

Farm Machinery · AgTech
13open roles
$183kmedian advertised pay
16H-1B filings in 12 months
Growinghiring pace, 68 of 100

Overview

Blue River Technology is an agricultural technology company that develops computer vision and machine learning systems for farm equipment, best known for See & Spray, which identifies weeds in real time and sprays herbicide only where it is needed. A subsidiary of Deere & Company since 2017, it also works on autonomy for agricultural and construction machinery. The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, United States.

How Blue River Technology hires

Truth index
B 81/100
Median time to fill
39 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
75%
Reposted roles
0%

Blue River Technology scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 4 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 75% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 39 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Jobs

$108k – $162k per year · In office · Full-Time · 1+ year exp · Bachelor's Degree · Santa Clara
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
DevOps
CI/CD
Linux
Design
SolidWorks
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$104k – $183k per year · Remote (United States) · Full-Time · 2+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree
Python
C++
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
DevOps
Ansible
Git
Linux
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$131k – $228k per year · Remote (United States) · Full-Time · 3+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree
Python
C++
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
DevOps
Linux
Robotics
ROS
ROS2
Sensor Fusion
MedTech
Verification & Validation
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$122k – $183k per year · In office · Full-Time · 1+ year exp · Bachelor's Degree · Santa Clara
Rust
C++
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
DevOps
CI/CD
Linux
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$142k – $250k per year · Remote (United States) · Full-Time · 8+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Management
Agile
Scrum
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$92k – $136k per year · Remote (United States) · 5+ years exp
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
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$50k – $70k per year · Remote (United States) · Full-Time · Bachelor's Degree
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
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$142k – $250k per year · Remote (United States) · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Robotics
SLAM
Path Planning
Management
Agile
Scrum
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$122k – $183k per year · In office · Full-Time · 2+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Santa Clara
Python
C++
Ansible
CI/CD
Jenkins
Docker
Kubernetes
Configuration Management
Buildkite
GitHub
Linux
Windows
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$160k – $287k per year · Remote (United States) · Full-Time · 5+ years exp
Python
Spark
Computer Vision
Kubeflow
Ray
Machine Learning
DevOps
AWS
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
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$187k – $378k per year · In office · Full-Time · 3+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Santa Clara
Python
Reinforcement Learning
Computer Vision
PyTorch
CUDA
Reward Modeling
Machine Learning
Robotics
ROS
Sim-to-Real
Reinforcement Learning
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$108k – $162k per year · In office · Full-Time · 3+ years exp · Santa Clara
Python
PowerShell
Bash
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
DevOps
Linux
Windows
Cybersecurity
Okta
Zscaler
Microsoft Entra ID
Active Directory
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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$183k
Typical range
$70k – $378k
Open positions
14
13 Jobs
Junior 30.8%
Middle 23.1%
Senior 38.5%
Principal 7.7%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 4 $183k $162k – $183k
Middle 3 $162k $162k – $228k
Senior 5 $250k $136k – $287k
Principal 1 $378k $378k
Highest paying role Principal RL Engineer, E2E Autonomy $378k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Blue River Technology By role, level and city, against the market · 14 jobs with pay

Visa sponsorship

#1,186 of 8,998 sponsors
16 ▼ 30%
H-1B filings in 12 months
9
Green card filings
$172k
Median offered salary
10
Adverts offering sponsorship in 24 months
Who they sponsor
Other engineers
8
Electrical engineers
2
Software developers
2
4 more occupations and the salary for eachVisa pass · 90 credits
In the register as Blue River Technology, Santa Clara, CA (+2 more)
Other sponsors in the same field
US Department of Labor · latest filing Nov 10, 2026 · Visa details by country

Growth

Hiring Momentum
68/100
Growing
Open positions
14
4 opened / 8 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
48 days
faster than 28% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +1100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Robotics
29% ▼
AI/ML
13% ▼
Product
13% ▲
DevOps
8% ▼
Hardware
8% ▲
Leadership
8% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Verification & Validation to stack Oct 2026
Added Docker to stack Oct 2026
Added Configuration Management to stack Oct 2026
Added Buildkite to stack Oct 2026
Added Git to stack Oct 2026
Added Ansible to stack Oct 2026
Added Wi-Fi to stack Sep 2026
Added SLAM to stack Sep 2026
Added Scrum to stack Sep 2026
Added Path Planning to stack Sep 2026
Added MVP to stack Sep 2026
Added Spark to stack Sep 2026

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Blue River Technology over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
57
Postings analysed
32
Stack modernity
72/100
Languages
Python56%
C++28%
Rust9%
JavaScript9%
Frameworks & libraries
ROS22%
ROS213%
PyTorch9%
TensorFlow6%
Cloud & platforms
Linux44%
GitHub22%
Kubernetes13%
AWS13%
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Full Blue River Technology tech stack 57 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Connections

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Shared investors3
76 portfolio companies: Yotpo, Ginkgo Bioworks, Weave Bio and 73 more
Khosla VenturesVia a fund
113 portfolio companies: Bold, Ukko, Rubedo Life Sciences and 110 more
DCVCVia a fund
227 portfolio companies: Rainmaker, Nobell Foods, NVision Quantum and 224 more

News

Blog 9 months ago
Blue River Celebrates Black History Month 2026
This year marks 100 years since the first formal celebration of Black history began in 1926, making this season of reflection and learning especially meaningful. This Black History Month, Blue River Technology honors the Black American innovators whose kn
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Blog 10 months ago
Building the Next Generation of Precision Agriculture
John Deere released See & Spray Gen 2 in 2026 The latest generation of See & Spray represents a major step forward in how intelligent machines operate at the field scale. By applying advanced computer vision and deep learning, these systems identify crops
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Blog 10 months ago
Employee Spotlight: Missy Cummings, Total Rewards Manager
Meet Missy in Missy's words "My goal is to attract, retain, and motivate top talent by ensuring Blue River's offerings are competitive and appealing," she says. The simplicity of the statement reflects her approach. She listens, studies the data, and desi
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Press release businesswire.com 11 years ago
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News TechCrunch 12 years ago
Blue River Technology Takes In Another $10M For Its Agriculture Optimizing Robots
Blue River Technology, which uses robotics and computer vision to optimize agriculture by, for instance, determining which lettuces to thin out of a row
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Santa Clara
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Santa Clara United States
HQ
BRT - Santa Clara
7 open roles 8 posted in 90 days 71% engineering 200-500 est. staff $200k Avg Salary
hires for Networking, QA, Hardware
3303 Scott Blvd,, Santa Clara, CA 95054
seen since Aug 2022 company site, careers board, job postings
Gilroy United States
Regional office
Gilroy
careers board
Earlier presence
Ankeny, United States 1 open roles · last posting Jul 2026
Austin, United States 1 open roles · last posting Nov 2026