Our portfolio company Agtonomy is helping accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable farming by equipping farmers with the technology and services they need to feed the world. Agtonomy’s TeleFarmer Solution empowers farmers to remotely execute labor-intensive field tasks such as weeding, spraying, mowing and transporting. Composed of three powerful components, TeleFarmer includes: TeleFarmer Software, a tele-guidance software system that turns tractors into remotely operated vehicles; TeleFarmer Service, an app that allows farmers to plan and implement tasks such as in-row spraying, open-field mowing and transporting of harvested crops; and the TeleFarmer Reference Tractor, a fully electric reference tractor that precisely accomplishes labor-intensive field tasks.
The Northern California company, led by CEO Tim Bucher, includes a world-class team of experts from the AI, electric vehicle, cloud service and agriculture industries — and they are currently hiring for multiple roles. Check out the Toyota Ventures jobs board to learn more and read about two key roles below: Head of Farming Services and Software Engineer — Infrastructure.
Head of Farming Services (South San Francisco, California)
Agtonomy is seeking to hire a head of farming services who is passionate about the intersection of farming and technology, comfortable working in farming and warehouse environments, as well as delivering on managing all services that run on the vehicles that employ the company’s software. This role is best suited for someone who is an operator at heart, is action and solution-oriented, adept enough to manage real-time trouble-shooting and thoughtful enough to ask the questions or get the feedback needed to move the company from field trials to defining, refining, and bringing Agtonomy’s products and services to market and operating services long term. This role will entail taking the lead on identifying and lining up trial customers and locations based on business objectives, helping create guidelines for future projects and convert trial customers to ongoing customers, work closely with the engineering team to outline trial and
farm credit system requirements, schedules, and timelines, and collaborate to set up milestones for achieving testing and trial success.
Applicants should have a bachelor’s of arts or science degree, as well as a proven track record in management experience in farming services with more than ten years of relevant experience. Those who take a hands-on approach to problem solving, have an interest in developing sustainable agriculture solutions, and a healthy curiosity with out-of-the-box thinking will do well in this role. It is encouraged that candidates have a strong history of building relationships with customers, have a highly collaborative mindset and strong communication skills, take a data-driven approach to taking learnings from the field to the business and possess computer skills and fluency in Slack, bug tracking systems, and various other technology tools.
Software Engineer — Infrastructure (South San Francisco, California)
Agronomy is seeking a senior devops engineer to be responsible for all aspects of the company’s cloud, on-premise, and on-vehicle infrastructure. Additionally, candidates will support the engineering team on improving development processes and tools as well as create effective ways to improve automation around the release, deployment, and management of software stacks across a variety of platforms. In this role, you will be responsible for defining and implementing cloud architecture for fleet management and large-scale data storage, processing, and analytics of a fleet of autonomous vehicles. The senior devops engineer will develop best practices for deployment and management of software systems to edge devices using AWS GreenGrass, develop service infrastructure to enable software teams to build, test, and release with ease and focus on infrastructure-as-code best practices.
Additional responsibilities will include developing and supporting machine learning training and deployment operations across large-scale image and video data as well as building systems to enable observability of the company’s software and hardware stacks with metrics, monitoring, and alerting using tools like InfluxDB, Grafana, AWS TimeStream.
You should have over five years of relevant experience architecting cloud systems for hardware and software products as well as deep knowledge of commonly used AWS services such as S3, Lambda, API Gateway, EKS, Kinesis, DynamoDB. Applicants must have a bachelor’s degree or above in computer science/engineering or prior engineering experience. The ideal candidate will have strong experience with AWS Greengrass and managing software infrastructure on edge compute devices, experience with robotics platforms, deploying containerized, auto-scaling server stacks at scale, have experience with CI/CD pipelines utilizing docker containerized deployments as well as devops and agile methodologies.