Founding Design Engineer
Orchard Robotics is an agricultural-robotics company providing AI-powered, vehicle-mounted crop-imaging hardware and farm-management software for specialty-crop growers.
Funding history
About Orchard Robotics
Orchard Robotics builds FruitScope Vision camera systems, FruitScope Vault farm data records, and FruitScope OS software to collect crop-level data and help growers make farm-management decisions.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will establish the design function and lead design across product, brand, marketing, software, hardware, and physical environments. You will turn ambiguous problems into polished artifacts, build the design system, conduct research, create prototypes, and improve design quality across the company.
Requirements
- 1–5 years of real-world design experience
- Portfolio demonstrating product thinking and visual craft
- Experience across product, software, brand, marketing, and physical-experience design
- Experience delivering ambiguous zero-to-one projects from research through shipped work
- Figma
- Modern prototyping tools
- Claude Code
- AI tools
Responsibilities
- Build and evolve the design system
- Lead end-to-end product design for FruitScope OS
- Own brand design across the website, sales materials, customer stories, presentations, and communications
- Design marketing materials, tradeshow booths, conference materials, field-day experiences, and product packaging
- Support hardware design through industrial-design thinking, labeling, documentation, and operator experiences
- Raise design quality through templates, feedback, and design principles
- Help define the future design organization
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical coverage with 100% of employee premiums covered
- Dental coverage with 100% of employee premiums covered
- Vision coverage with 100% of employee premiums covered