Hardware Technician
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 build and test AI-powered camera systems, taking them from individual components to fully assembled, configured, and tested systems ready for deployment. You will follow detailed build procedures, install software on onboard computers, inspect and test finished hardware, and document your findings. You will also help keep parts available and improve instructions and processes behind every build, working with Manufacturing Operations and Hardware Engineering.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience assembling electronics or electromechanical products
- Practical mechanical and electrical knowledge and familiarity with common assembly tools and safe working practices
- Ability to read mechanical drawings and follow detailed work instructions
- Experience with basic hardware inspection, functional testing, and troubleshooting
- Comfort using computers to follow software installation steps and maintain records
- Strong attention to detail
- Organization and follow-through across builds, parts tracking, and supplier follow-ups
- Experience following and improving standard operating procedures
Responsibilities
- Build complete camera systems from start to finish
- Configure onboard NVIDIA Jetson computers
- Inspect, test, and QA assembled hardware
- Maintain build records and document completed work
- Follow procedures consistently and provide feedback to improve processes
- Track and inventory parts used in assembly
- Keep builds on schedule and maintain an organized work area
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage with 100% of employee premiums covered
- Bonus
