Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Orchard is building an AI-powered farming platform that uses camera systems, computer vision, and farm-management software to improve agricultural operations. The Senior Machine Learning Engineer will build robust ML and computer vision software and infrastructure, including scalable data pipelines, model training and deployment systems, active sampling infrastructure, and production robotics integrations.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain scalable ETL pipelines for processing large, diverse image datasets collected from our tractor-mounted camera systems in farms
• Stay up-to-date with current literature in computer vision models and architectures, and apply 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