Founding Design Engineer — Build Design System & Brand

Orchard Robotics; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage (

100% employee premiums covered)

Opportunity to lead design function

Job summary

Orchard is building an entirely new way for farmers to understand and operate their farms. As Orchard's Founding Design Engineer, you will establish the design function and own design across product, brand, marketing, software engineering, hardware, and our physical environments.

You will work directly with our CEO and leaders to move from ambiguous problems to finished artifacts. This is intentionally a broad role for an exceptional generalist, leading the design system and guiding visual craft

Qualifications

• 1–5 years of real-world design experience.
• Portfolio demonstrating taste, product thinking and visual craft.
• Ability to design across product, software, brand, marketing and physical spaces.
• Experience turning ambiguous research into shipped work.
• Fluency in Figma and modern prototyping tools.
• Comfort using Claude Code and other AI tools to realize designs.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve Orchard's design system.
• End-to-end product design for FruitScope OS from research to prototypes and iteration.
• Own brand design across website, sales materials, stories, presentations, and communications.
• Design marketing materials for events, booths, conferences and packaging.
• Support Hardware with industrial-design thinking, labeling, and operator experiences.
• Raise company quality through templates, feedback, and design principles.
• Help define and grow the future design organization as we scale.

Skills

Design

Product design

Design systems

Brand design

Figma

Prototyping

Tools

Figma

Claude Code

Job description

Orchard is building an entirely new way for farmers to understand and operate their farms. As Orchard's Founding Design Engineer, you will establish the design function and own design across product, brand, marketing, software engineering, hardware, and our physical environments.

You will work directly with our CEO and leaders to move from ambiguous problems to finished artifacts. This is intentionally a broad role for an exceptional generalist, leading the design system and guiding visual craft