Orchard

Orchard

Robotics Software Engineer (Perception & Localization)

San Francisco · Exec · Full-time

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 130 days ago
PythonC++AlgorithmsCloud PlatformsComputer VisionRoboticsSensors

About the role

  • 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

Responsibilities

  • Develop robotics software that runs on our tractor-mounted, AI-powered camera systems, including advanced perception & localization algorithms.
  • Implement intelligent systems and processes to interpret complex, real-world data (each system collects terabytes of raw image data every day).
  • Optimize code for fast edge computing performance (Python, C++).
  • Hands-on experience developing robotics software from the ground up.

Requirements

  • You like fast-paced environments where you have high ownership over your work.

Nice to have

  • 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.

Skills

  • Orchard Robotics is a Series A startup backed by top VCs like Quiet Capital, Shine Capital, and General Catalyst.
  • Our state-of-the-art AI analyzes every one of the billions of fruit across a farm.
  • Today, our technology is trusted by some of the largest farms in the nation.
  • Farmers use our software every day to make critical decisions and run more efficient, profitable operations.

Compensation

  • As an early employee, you'll receive generous equity compensation

Benefits

  • As an early employee, you'll receive generous equity compensation
  • We are looking for a Robotics Software Engineer to invent creative, practical, and robust solutions to real-world computer vision problems relating to perception and localization.
  • Expertise in one or more of the following areas: computer vision, stereo depth perception, pose estimation, object detection, multi-object tracking, image processing, robotics software.

Company info

  • We start by building AI-powered camera systems that collect the most valuable data for farmers, telling them everything about what is growing on their millions of trees, vines, and plants, across thousands of acres of farmland.
  • We provide accurate yield estimates, fruit counts, size projections, disease detection, inventories, bloom maps, and more!
  • All this data lives in our cloud platform, FruitScope OS, that we've developed from the ground up to enable farmers to manage their crop with precision.
  • We are growing fast, and have the industry-leading product.
  • Enthusiasm for taking on multiple roles and responsibilities as our company grows.

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