Orchard

Orchard

Field Operations Technician (Santa Maria, CA)

Central Coast, CA · Full-time

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 134 days ago
Cloud PlatformsComputer VisionSalesCustomer SuccessRobotics

About the role

  • This is a full-time, hourly role, spanning year-round.
  • Comprehensive health, vision, and dental coverage provided, with 100% of the premium paid for by the company.
  • We're deeply motivated by the impact we're making - every new system deployed means much less food that goes to waste, and many more people who are fed.

Responsibilities

  • Drive ATVs up and down the rows of a farm, "scanning" trees, vines, and plants, frequently for hours at a time.
  • Regularly drive 1-3 hours to customer farms for customer training and deployments.
  • At Orchard Robotics, we're building the future of farming.
  • This data lives in our cloud platform, FruitScope OS, that we've developed from the ground up to help farmers manage their crops with precision.

Nice to have

  • Preferred Skills & Experience:

Skills

  • Background in agriculture.
  • Valid driver's license for frequent travel to customer farms.
  • Proficiency with digital tools such as Google Workspace (Docs) and Slack.
  • Flexibility to work irregular hours to align with growers' schedules.

Benefits

  • Our state-of-the-art computer vision and AI analyzes every one of the billions of fruit across a farm.
  • Provide hands-on support, troubleshooting, and training for our FruitScope vision systems.

Company info

  • Our AI-powered camera systems collect the most valuable data for farmers, telling them everything about what is growing on their millions of trees, across thousands of acres of farmland.
  • Farmers use our software every day to make critical decisions and run more efficient, profitable operations.
  • Today, our technology is trusted by some of the largest farms in the nation.
  • Conduct on-farm demos for prospective customers.
  • Regularly engage with customers to ensure ongoing satisfaction, and relay customer insights, requests, and suggestions back to our customer success and engineering teams.

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