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# Robotics Software Engineer

- **Company:** The Orchards
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, C++ (Programming Language), Virtual Camera Systems, Program Optimization, Python (Programming Language), Object Detection, Robot Operating System, GNSS
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-robotics-software-engineer-perception-localization-orchard-robotics-8114600

## About the Role

* Hands-on experience developing robotics software from the ground up.
 * 4+ 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.

## Description

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.

We are looking for a Senior 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
 * 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.


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