Founding Design Engineer

The role

The Founding Design Engineer will establish the design function and own design across product, brand, marketing, software engineering, hardware, and physical environments. You will work with the CEO and leaders to move from ambiguous problems to finished artifacts.

What you will do

• Build and evolve Orchard’s design system.
• End-to-end product design for FruitScope OS software platform.
• Own brand design across website, sales materials, customer stories, presentations, and company communications.
• Design marketing materials like tradeshow booths, conference materials, field-day experiences, and product packaging.
• Support 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.

Required qualifications

• 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.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage with 100% of employee premiums covered.
• The opportunity to lead design and establish the design function at a rapidly growing, category-defining company.
• Work directly with leadership and collaborate across all teams.

About the company

Orchard is building the AI Farmer to automate farms and secure America’s food supply. They are an industry leader backed by more than $25 million from investors including Quiet Capital, Shine Capital, and General Catalyst.