Orchard Robotics
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
$150K–$265K
San Francisco · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Mar 14, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of experience building production-grade data pipelines and ML infrastructure.
About the job
Builds ML and computer-vision infrastructure and edge models that analyze farm imagery and support production robotics systems.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain scalable ETL pipelines for farm-image datasets and infrastructure for model training, evaluation, and inference in the cloud and on edge devices.
- Develop active-sampling systems and apply computer-vision research to improve data collection and model performance.
- Integrate ML into production robotics systems and work with agronomists and farmers to translate domain knowledge into ML features.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of experience building production-grade data pipelines and ML infrastructure.
- Proficiency in Python and experience with ML frameworks such as TensorFlow or PyTorch.
- Strong experience with data engineering tools such as Pandas, SQL, Apache Airflow, or Spark.
- Experience with massive real-world training data; familiarity with cloud platforms, containerization, and MLOps software.
Nice to have
- Experience deploying and optimizing ML models on embedded compute such as NVIDIA Jetson.
- Experience prototyping, evaluating, or deploying ML/CV models on the edge.
Pay
$150K – $265K • Offers Equity
Tools
Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Pandas, SQL, Apache Airflow, Spark, AWS
AI focus
Develops computer-vision and edge ML models and supporting infrastructure to analyze farm imagery, improve data collection, and integrate models into robotics systems.
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