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Orchard

Founding Design Engineer

San Francisco$125k–$225kfulltimemidAdded today

About this role

Orchard seeks a Founding Design Engineer to establish and lead the design function across product, brand, marketing, and hardware for an AI-powered agricultural technology company. You'll own design strategy and execution across the entire customer experience, from the FruitScope OS platform to physical spaces and marketing materials, working directly with leadership in a fast-moving early-stage startup.

What you'll do

  • Build and evolve Orchard's design system and establish design principles across the company
  • Lead end-to-end product design for FruitScope OS platform including research, prototypes, and visual design
  • Own brand design across website, sales materials, presentations, and company communications
  • Design marketing collateral including tradeshow booths, field-day experiences, and product packaging
  • Support hardware team with industrial design thinking, documentation, and operator experience design
  • Help define and build the design organization as the company scales

What they're looking for

  • Product design and user research
  • Visual design and brand development
  • Figma and modern prototyping tools
  • Fluency with AI tools like Claude Code
  • Industrial and hardware design thinking
  • Cross-functional collaboration and communication
  • Zero-to-one project execution
  • Fast iteration and rapid prototyping

Benefits

  • 100% employer-covered medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Opportunity to lead design function at a rapidly growing, venture-backed company
  • Work directly with CEO and company leadership
  • Field time with farmers to understand customer needs firsthand
  • Build category-defining technology in agriculture
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Orchard

Orchard builds AI-powered camera systems and robotics to automate and enhance agricultural efficiency on farms. The company is hiring robotics engineers, machine learning engineers, and software engineers to develop perception systems, build data infrastructure, and deploy these technologies across U.S. farms.

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Likely interview questions

  • Walk us through a zero-to-one project from your portfolio where you went from ambiguous problem to shipped product—what was your process?
  • How do you approach building a design system for a company that spans product software, hardware, marketing, and brand?
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