Hardware Engineer role designing, building, and improving Orchard's agricultural AI camera systems that mount on tractors. Owns mechanical CAD and design projects, electrical integration and troubleshooting, and assembly QA within the Hardware team, working with Perception and Embedded Software teams. Requires 3D CAD, electrical harness and troubleshooting skills; Jetson, Linux, and camera experience are a plus.
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.
The Role:
We’re hiring a Hardware Engineer to design, build, and improve Orchard’s agricultural camera systems. Working closely with our Hardware Lead, you’ll take ownership of mechanical CAD and design projects, handle electrical integration and troubleshooting, and help establish quality checks for the assemblies and subassemblies we build.
This is a broad, hands-on role within our Hardware team. On a given day, you might refine an enclosure in CAD, build a wiring harness, diagnose a power issue, or develop a test fixture. You’ll take projects from a design concept to working hardware, then help make that hardware reliable and repeatable in production.
Our cameras operate on tractors and farm vehicles exposed to harsh vibration, impact, dust, water, and heat. You’ll work across mechanical and electrical systems to solve those challenges, partnering with our Perception and Embedded Software teams on system requirements and interfaces while owning the physical hardware work within the Hardware team.
Things that are a plus:
Compensation: $100K - $170K