Robotics Software Engineer (Perception & Localization)

Orchard Robotics

• $100K — $130K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2+ years of industry experience in robotics, perception, or localization
  • Hands-on experience developing robotics software from the ground up
  • Expertise in computer vision, stereo depth perception, pose estimation, object detection, multi-object tracking, or image processing
  • Enthusiasm for taking on multiple roles in a growing company
  • Comfortable in fast-paced environments with high ownership

Responsibilities

  • Develop robotics software for AI-powered camera systems
  • Implement processes to interpret complex, real-world data
  • Fuse sensor data for accurate localization in farming environments
  • Optimize code for edge computing performance using Python and C++
  • Support various parts of the software and hardware stack as needed

Benefits

  • Generous equity compensation for early employees
  • Comprehensive health, vision, and dental coverage with 100% premium coverage
  • Opportunities for close collaboration with company leadership
  • Work in a mission-driven environment to reduce food waste and enhance food security
  • Expectations of a fast-paced work environment that may require additional hours when necessary
Full Job Description
The Role:

In order to analyze billions of fruit on farms all year long, our advanced, tractor-mounted camera systems have to know a.) precisely where they are, and b.) everything about the fruit they are seeing. In addition, all of this happens fast, on compute running on the edge, in complex, real-world environments where our systems are subject to all sorts of conditions.

We are looking for a Robotics Software Engineer to invent creative, practical, and robust solutions to real-world computer vision problems relating to perception and localization.

About the role:
  • Full-time, in-person role at our San Francisco or Seattle office
  • As an early employee, you'll receive generous equity compensation
  • Comprehensive Health, Vision, and Dental coverage, and we cover 100% of the premium
  • We move fast, and sometimes this means staying late or working weekends
  • Our team is close-knit & highly driven, you'll work directly with our CEO and entire team
  • We're deeply motivated by the impact we're making - every line of code written or new system built means less food that goes to waste, and more people who are fed.


What you'll do:
  • Develop robotics software that runs on our tractor-mounted, AI-powered camera systems, including advanced perception & localization algorithms.
  • Implement intelligent systems and processes to interpret complex, real-world data (each system collects terabytes of raw image data every day).
  • Fuse sensor data (stereo depth, GNSS, etc) to localize our camera system in a farm.
  • Optimize code for fast edge computing performance (Python, C++).
  • Be a generalist, supporting different parts of our software and hardware stack if needed.

What makes you a good fit:
  • Hands-on experience developing robotics software from the ground up.
  • 2+ years of real-world industry experience in robotics, perception, or localization.
  • Expertise in one or more of the following areas: computer vision, stereo depth perception, pose estimation, object detection, multi-object tracking, image processing, robotics software.
  • Enthusiasm for taking on multiple roles and responsibilities as our company grows.
  • You like fast-paced environments where you have high ownership over your work.

Bonus Points:
  • Experience deploying & optimizing robotics algorithms to run fast on embedded compute like NVIDIA Jetson.
  • Familiarity with fusing data from GNSS, IMU, depth, and other sensors.


If you're looking to help make a real, positive impact in the world by building the future of farming, come join us!

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