Job Description
Orchards in the U.S. produce $35B of fruit every year, but fruit farmers are losing 30-50% of their potential crop because they lack data needed to manage crops precisely.
Orchard Robotics is a seed-stage startup backed by top VCs like General Catalyst, Contrary, Soma Capital, Humba Ventures, and angel investors like Howard Lerman (founder of Yext).
We’re building Robots & AI that enable precision crop management. Our AI-powered camera systems count, size, and measure the growth of every fruit on 1,000,000+ trees in an orchard. Our mission is to help farmers to produce more food for the world, much more efficiently.
Farmers are using our technology today in some of the largest farms in the nation.
Here at Orchard Robotics, our AI-powered camera systems collect precision data about millions of fruit on tens of thousands of trees every day. This includes everything from fruit count, size, color, growth rate, tree trunk size, leaf canopy area, and much more – terabytes of data going through our system.
However, all this data is useless unless farmers can actually utilize it in their day-to-day operations. When a farmer is managing hundreds of millions of fruit on thousands of acres, it’s critical they can easily understand what is happening to every tree, block, and acre of land.
Your job will be to utilize your extensive breadth & depth of frontend (Typescript/React) and backend (Flask, PostgreSQL) knowledge to help us invent new solutions in our web app / precision data platform – that is changing the way farmers manage their orchards today.
You will have ownership over the frontend + backend development of our data platform, FruitScope, where our farmers view every piece of data, every recommendation, and each insight collected by our AI-powered camera systems.
We value development speed, technical expertise, and grit. In the agriculture industry where it typically takes many years for innovations from incumbents to come to light, we win by moving fast and creating new & inventive ways for farmers to gain previously unknown insights into their orchards.
We ship new features on the timescale of days and weeks, but the end product of our work is a system that will change how farmers have operated for many years, for the better.
When the software you build helps a farmer utilize their data better, say, to grow even one more apple per tree, that adds up to millions of pounds of fruit across an orchard, meaning millions of more people fed!
If you're looking to help make a positive impact in the world by transforming the future of agriculture, come join us. Even if you may not meet every requirement, we'd strongly encourage you to apply.
Join us today in helping foster a more fruitful future!
Orchard Robotics develops an operating system that enables precision agriculture driven by robots and AI. Its camera systems and computer vision software gather precise data for the visible fruit on any tree. It is utilized by growers, packers, and marketers to manage crop load and supply chains.
