About the Role
Orchard is building a new way for farmers to understand and operate their farms, turning data into clear and intuitive decisions. The Founding Design Engineer will establish the design function and own design across product, brand, marketing, software engineering, hardware, and physical environments, working directly with leadership to move from ambiguous problems to finished artifacts.
Responsibilities
- Build and evolve Orchard’s design system.
- End-to-end product design for our FruitScope OS software platform, from customer research through prototypes, visual design, and iteration.
- Own our brand design across our website, sales materials, customer stories, presentations, and company communications.
- Design marketing materials like tradeshow booths, conference materials, field-day experiences, and product packaging.
- Support our Hardware team with industrial-design thinking, labeling, documentation, and operator experiences.
- Raise the company-wide quality bar through templates, feedback, and design principles.
- Help define the future design organization as we grow.
Requirements
- You sit at the intersection of art and technology, with between 1-5 years of real-world design experience.
- A portfolio demonstrating exceptional taste, product thinking and visual craft.
- The range and appetite to work across designing product, software, brand, marketing, physical experiences, etc.
- Experience taking ambiguous zero-to-one projects from research through polished, shipped work.
- A low-ego, highly iterative working style and willingness to execute details personally.
Skills
- Figma
- Modern prototyping tools
- Claude Code
- AI tools
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 1-5 years
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage with 100% of employee premiums covered.
About the Company
- Orchard is securing America’s food supply by building the AI Farmer that automates farms.
- We are the industry leader, growing rapidly, and backed by more than $25 million from leading investors.
- 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.
- FruitScope OS is our farm-management platform where growers can understand their crops, make better decisions, and direct operations in the field.
- Our technology is trusted by some of our nation’s largest farms to grow higher-quality crops while reducing chemical use and operating costs, helping them farm more profitably and sustainably.
