Field Operations Technician (Santa Maria, CA)

About the role

This is a full-time, hourly role, spanning year-round.

Comprehensive health, vision, and dental coverage provided, with 100% of the premium paid for by the company.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Routinely 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.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Background in agriculture.
• Valid driver's license for frequent travel to customer farms.
• Proficiency with digital tools such as Google Workspace (Docs) and Slack.
• Flexibility to work irregular hours to align with growers' schedules.