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adam_cadien

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https://farmwise.io/
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adam_cadien··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)
FarmWise | https://farmwise.io | Senior Software Engineer, Senior Mechanical Engineer, Electrical Engineer | San Francisco / Salinas / Remote | Full-time | Salary + Annual Bonus + Equity

We build autonomous farming devices that help solve the labor shortage encountered by many farmers in the US and we also drastically reduce the amount of chemical used in the farming process.

We're a product focused robotics and agriculture service company, meaning we have vehicles in the field with customers relying on us every day. Our operation center is in the Salinas Valley (where 70% of all American Lettuce is grown). Engineering HQ is in San Francisco, although we are actively fully remote, and revisiting our long term remote policy.

We're hiring a senior software engineer with either a background in robotics or the interest in entering the field. Our stack is in C++ with some Python, we use ROS and have custom infrastructure for interacting with and pulling data from the robots. We have projects around localization in the field, controls and actuation, classical computer vision (VIO/pattern matching) and both off and online calibration.

We also have openings for mechanical and electrical engineers that are willing to spend some time in person in Salinas. Challenges here include hardening our electrical and mechanical stacks (which must be robust to operating on rough field conditions), designing and building some custom components, and iterating on sensors and power/data transmission methods.

Check out our site for more details.

adam_cadien··on Never-before-seen “black nitrogen” plugs puzzle in periodic table
How do glasses form? What order parameter determines the properties of liquids? Are there an unifying properties determining the structure of atomic liquids? What determines the network properties of liquids?

Here's a more tangible one; Is solid hydrogen stable?

I did my PhD in this area and even discovered liquid polymorphism in atomic Cerium.

There are tons of unanswered questions like this! It's bonkers how many things we know we don't know, just think of the things we don't know we don't know :p

adam_cadien··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2019)
Reaching out soon!
adam_cadien··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2019)
Thanks for reaching out, responded on LI.
adam_cadien··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2019)
FarmWise | https://farmwise.io | Software Engineers, Robotics Software Engineers, Embedded Systems Engineers | San Francisco / Salinas | Full-time | Salary + Annual Bonus + Equity

We build autonomous farming devices that help solve the labor shortage encountered by many farmers in the US and we also drastically reduce the amount of chemical used in the farming process. I'm the lead SW engineer/roboticist here at Farmwise and our team is growing quickly after landing our Series A.

We're a values focused company, and extremely product focused. Despite being an early stage startup farmers in the Salinas Valley (where 70% of all American Lettuce is grown) are already using our product for chemical free weeding of their crops.

We're hiring not just roboticists but software engineers looking to get into robotics as well as embedded systems engineers. We have a preference for people with a background in C/C++ or Python, as well as a product focused mindset and solid communication skills.

We have challenges around localization in the field, controls and actuation, as well as real time systems constraints.

If you ever want to talk directly with me or one of our founders, feel free to reach out on LinkedIn and we can hop on a call.

adam_cadien··on Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work?
Hey I'm the lead roboticist with https://farmwise.io/

We're building autonomous devices for sustainable farming at scale; that means weeding without chemicals, reducing fertilizer utilization and building new methods for planting/harvesting.

For a roboticist this translates to building high quality odometry, actuation and navigation stacks. We have novel backend and real time systems challenges as well. I've worked on autonomous systems for several years now and have seen how effective solid software engineers are at building solutions in the robotics space.

Our company is product focused and has devices operating on farms today, feel free to reach out with any questions.