Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Orchard Robotics is an agricultural-robotics company providing AI-powered, vehicle-mounted crop-imaging hardware and farm-management software for specialty-crop growers.

Seattle, United States
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.

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About the Role

You will build ETL pipelines for farm image data and develop infrastructure for model training, evaluation, deployment, and inference. You will implement active sampling, integrate ML into robotics systems, translate crop knowledge into ML features, and support the software stack.

Requirements

  • 5+ years building production-grade data pipelines and machine-learning infrastructure
  • Python
  • TensorFlow or PyTorch
  • Pandas, SQL, Apache Airflow, or Spark
  • AWS, GCP, or Azure
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Experience with large real-world training datasets
  • MLOps and data engineering experience

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain ETL pipelines for large image datasets
  • Apply computer-vision model and architecture advancements
  • Develop, deploy, and monitor infrastructure for model training, evaluation, and inference
  • Design and implement active-sampling infrastructure
  • Integrate machine-learning solutions into production robotics systems
  • Translate crop biology and domain knowledge into machine-learning features
  • Support different parts of the software stack

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Health coverage with 100% of premiums covered
  • Vision coverage with 100% of premiums covered
  • Dental coverage with 100% of premiums covered