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About the Role
Orchard is seeking its first manufacturing leader to build and own the manufacturing operation for its rapidly growing fleet of AI-powered camera systems. This hands-on role involves designing, launching, and running the San Francisco factory, ensuring systems are built reliably, repeatedly, and economically at scale.
Responsibilities
- Design assembly processes, production flow, work instructions, fixtures, tooling, test stations, safety policies, and production schedules.
- Translate commercial forecasts into capacity, labor, supply chain, purchasing, and production plans.
- Hire, train, schedule, and manage a team of electromechanical assembly technicians.
- Purchase components, manage suppliers, track lead times and inventory, and anticipate shortages.
- Establish incoming, in-process, and final QA, testing, build records, traceability, and processes for addressing defects.
- Collaborate with Hardware Engineering on BOMs, design changes, new-product introduction, and design-for-manufacturing improvements.
- Own manufacturing cost, throughput, first-pass yield, rework, and other production KPIs.
- Ensure every system is built, tested, documented, serialized, packaged, and ready for handoff.
Requirements
- 5-7 years of experience in manufacturing engineering, manufacturing operations, production, or a related hardware field.
- Experience building or scaling production for complex electromechanical products.
- Comfortable leading technicians while remaining hands-on with assembly, tooling, inventory, and production processes.
- Experience with procurement, suppliers, inventory, BOMs, production planning, and ERP/MRP systems.
- Strong understanding of manufacturing quality, documentation, process control, and root-cause analysis.
- Hands-on mechanical and electrical intuition.
- High agency and proactive problem-solving skills.
- Low ego, highly organized, and detail-oriented.
- High standards for safety, quality, documentation, and delivery.
- Experience with rugged electronics, robotics, automotive, industrial equipment, or other field-deployed hardware is a plus.
Skills
- Manufacturing Engineering
- Manufacturing Operations
- Production
- Electromechanical Assembly
- Procurement
- Supplier Management
- Inventory Management
- BOM Management
- Production Planning
- ERP/MRP Systems
- Quality Assurance
- Process Control
- Root Cause Analysis
- Design for Manufacturability
Location
- San Francisco
Work Type
- Full-time
- Onsite
Experience Level
- 5-7 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.
- We train edge vision AI models that analyze every plant and determine interventions needed.
- Our intelligence flows into FruitScope OS, a farm-management platform.
- Our technology is trusted by large farms to grow higher-quality crops while reducing chemical use and operating costs.
- Our culture emphasizes unshakeable resilience, constant movement, continuous improvement, farmer focus, and a no-job-beneath-us mentality.