Founding Design Engineer — Design System, Brand & UI

Orchard; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Job summary

Orchard is building an entirely new way for farmers to understand and operate their farms. Our product turns data about millions of plants into decisions that feel clear and intuitive.

At the same time, every customer touchpoint (software platform, marketing material, slide deck, merchandise, or factory) should communicate the quality and ambition of our company behind it. We offer the opportunity to lead design at a rapidly growing, category-defining company, with a chance to shape the design

Qualifications

• 1–5 years of real-world design experience.
• Portfolio demonstrating exceptional taste, product thinking and visual craft.
• Experience across 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 designs to life.
• Low-ego, highly iterative working style and willingness to execute details personally.
• You like to move fast.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve Orchard’s design system.
• End-to-end product design for FruitScope OS from research through prototypes and iterations.
• 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 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.

Skills

Figma proficiency

Prototyping tools

Design portfolio

Tools

Claude Code

Job description

Orchard is building an entirely new way for farmers to understand and operate their farms. Our product turns data about millions of plants into decisions that feel clear and intuitive.

At the same time, every customer touchpoint (software platform, marketing material, slide deck, merchandise, or factory) should communicate the quality and ambition of our company behind it. We offer the opportunity to lead design at a rapidly growing, category-defining company, with a chance to shape the design