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Founding Design Engineer

Orchard Robotics· Software Engineering
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San Francisco$125k - $225kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Founding Design Engineer at Orchard responsible for establishing and owning the design function across product, brand, marketing, software, hardware, and physical environments. Broad generalist role reporting to or working with the CEO and company leaders to move ambiguous problems to finished artifacts.

Responsibilities

  • Build and evolve Orchard’s design system.
  • End-to-end product design for FruitScope OS software platform, from customer research through prototypes, visual design, and iteration.
  • Own our brand design across our website, sales materials, customer stories, presentations, and company communications.
  • Design marketing materials like tradeshow booths, conference materials, field-day experiences, and product packaging.
  • Support our Hardware team with industrial-design thinking, labeling, documentation, and operator experiences.
  • Raise the company-wide quality bar through templates, feedback, and design principles.
  • Help define the future design organization as we grow.

Qualifications

  • You sit at the intersection of art and technology, with between 1-5 years of real-world design experience.
  • A portfolio demonstrating exceptional taste, product thinking and visual craft.
  • The range and appetite to work across designing product, software, brand, marketing, physical experiences, etc.
  • Experience taking ambiguous zero-to-one projects from research through polished, shipped work.
  • Fluency in Figma and modern prototyping tools.
  • Comfortable using Claude Code and other AI tools to bring your designs to life.
  • A low-ego, highly iterative working style and willingness to execute details personally.
  • You like to move fast.

Skills

Required:Design system developmentProduct designBrand designVisual designFigmaPrototype tooling
Nice to have:AI-assisted design

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage with 100% of employee premiums covered.
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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