Senior Robotics Software Engineer (Perception & Localization)

At Orchard, we’re securing America’s food supply by building the AI Farmer that automates our nation’s farms. We are the industry leader, growing rapidly, and backed by more than $25 million from leading investors, including Quiet Capital, Shine Capital, and General Catalyst.

Every year, hundreds of billions of dollars in crop value are lost because critical farming decisions are made using incomplete and imprecise data. We’re building the technology to change that.

Our AI-powered camera systems mount to tractors and scan millions of trees, vines, and plants, capturing precise data on yield estimates, fruit size, crop health, disease, and more. We train edge vision AI models that analyze every plant and determine exactly what interventions and treatments it needs. That intelligence flows into FruitScope OS, our farm-management platform, where growers can understand their crops, make better decisions, and direct operations in the field.

Today, Orchard’s technology is trusted by some of our nation’s largest farms. They use our products to grow higher-quality crops while reducing chemical use and operating costs, helping them farm more profitably and sustainably than ever before.

• Full-time, in-person role at our San Francisco or Seattle office

• Comprehensive Health, Vision, and Dental coverage, and we cover 100% of the premium

• We move fast, and sometimes this means staying late or working weekends

• Our team is close-knit & highly driven, you’ll work directly with our CEO and entire team

• We’re deeply motivated by the impact we’re making – every line of code written or new system built means less food that goes to waste, and more people who are fed.

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  Develop robotics software that runs on our tractor-mounted, AI-powered camera systems, including advanced perception & localization algorithms.

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  Implement intelligent systems and processes to interpret complex, real-world data (each system collects terabytes of raw image data every day).

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  Fuse sensor data (stereo depth, GNSS, etc) to localize our camera system in a farm.

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  Optimize code for fast edge computing performance (Python, C++).

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  Be a generalist, supporting different parts of our software and hardware stack if needed.

• Hands-on experience developing robotics software from the ground up.

• Experience deploying & optimizing robotics algorithms to run fast on embedded compute like NVIDIA Jetson.

• Familiarity with fusing data from GNSS, IMU, depth, and other sensors.

If you're looking to help make a positive impact in the world by building the future of farming, come join us!