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Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Orchard Robotics· Software Engineering
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San Francisco$150k - $265kFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Senior Machine Learning Engineer to build scalable ML/CV software and infrastructure for edge and cloud, processing billions of fruit images from tractor-mounted camera systems and integrating ML solutions into production robotics and farm-management platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain scalable ETL pipelines for processing large, diverse image datasets collected from tractor-mounted camera systems on farms.
  • Stay up-to-date with current literature in computer vision models and architectures, applying relevant advancements to our systems.
  • Develop, deploy, and monitor infrastructure for model training, evaluation, and inference, both in the cloud and on edge devices.
  • Design and implement intelligent active sampling infrastructure to optimize data collection and improve model performance.
  • Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to integrate ML solutions into production robotics systems.
  • Work closely with agronomists and farmers to understand crop biology and translate domain knowledge into actionable ML features.
  • Be a generalist, supporting different parts of our software stack as needed.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience building production-grade data pipelines and ML infrastructure.
  • Proficiency in Python and experience with ML frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch).
  • Strong experience with data engineering tools (e.g., Pandas, SQL, Apache Airflow, Spark).
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Experience working with massive amounts of real-world training data.
  • Familiarity with MLops software and data engineering to ensure consistent deployment of ML models.
  • Ability to work independently, learn quickly, and operate in a dynamic environment
  • Enthusiasm for taking on multiple roles and responsibilities as our company grows.

Skills

Required:PythonTensorFlow / PyTorchData pipelines / ETLSQL / Pandas
Nice to have:Airflow / Spark

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Health, Vision, and Dental coverage, and we cover 100% of the premium
Last updated Aug 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Orchard Robotics

The AI Farming Company

Orchard is securing America's food supply by building the AI Farmer that automates our nation's farms.

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