Orchard

Field Operations Technician

Orchard

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Santa Maria • California • United States

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Salary

💰 $25 - $35 per hour

About the role

  • Visit customer farms and scan their fields with our AI-powered camera systems to collect valuable farm data.
  • Drive ATVs up and down the rows of a farm, "scanning" trees, vines, and plants, frequently for hours at a time.
  • Conduct precise field scouting involving counting trees, vines, fruit, etc, to collect ground truth data for our AI-powered camera systems.
  • Regularly drive 1-3 hours to customer farms for customer training and deployments.
  • Provide hands-on support, troubleshooting, and training for our FruitScope vision systems.
  • Conduct on-farm demos for prospective customers.
  • Regularly engage with customers to ensure ongoing satisfaction, and relay customer insights, requests, and suggestions back to our customer success and engineering teams.

Requirements

  • Prior agriculture or field work experience, and comfortable spending many hours outdoors.
  • Comfortable driving 1-3 hours daily to our customer farms and engaging directly with growers in-person.
  • Able to lift at least 20 lbs to set up our camera systems.
  • Comfortable driving an ATV around farms for extended periods of time, and completing a variety of field tasks such as gathering ground truth data by measuring counts and sizes of fruit in fields.
  • Customer-first mindset, highly responsive, and reliable.
  • Proactive, loves to problem-solve & tackle new challenges.
  • Self-starter capable of working independently & managing your own schedule.
Benefits
  • Comprehensive health, vision, and dental coverage provided, with 100% of the premium paid for by the company.
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Hard Skills & Tools
field scoutingdata collectiontroubleshootingcustomer trainingground truth data measurementcamera system setup
Soft Skills
customer-first mindsetproblem-solvingreliabilityproactivityindependencetime management