Brothers, Michael and Jack, started Beanstalk as a solution to solve a local restaurant’s need for consistent, high-quality salad. In doing so, they created a new vertical farming technology capable of growing lettuces, spinach, basil, carrots, lavender, and more.

Beanstalk is at the nexus of industrial robotics, plant science, and the culinary arts. Our technology enables us to develop new products quickly, automate traditionally labor-intensive work, and connect consumers to fresh produce in ways not before seen.

We’re backed by top VCs and investors and looking for engineers, researchers, and operators that want to build the next generation of farms.

Want to join our team and grow the world’s consumption of fresh produce? Send your resume to [email protected].

We engineer our farms to operate as advanced manufacturing lines. As a Senior Mechanical Engineer, you will be responsible for the design, simulation, and building of our industrial machinery. The machines you create will autonomously handle millions of pounds of produce. Your work will be the foundation of our robots that work with each other to grow, process, and package fresh produce.

Day in the Life

You will design machines that move and process food. You will work at our flagship farm with on-site labs and fabrication facilities to rapidly prototype your designs.

On a typical day, you will:

• Work in a small team with electrical and software engineers to rapidly design and prototype machines
• Develop new concepts and perform analysis on designs while considering constraints from multiple disciplines (electrical design, manufacturing, business needs)
• Create CAD models, drawings, and specifications for parts and assemblies
• Collaborate in component selection and integration (materials, power trains, actuators, etc)
• Oversee the assembly and fabrication of machines
• Collaborate with internal teams to integrate new systems into the production facility
• Troubleshoot and repair production systems

Qualifications

• B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering, or related field
• 6+ years of experience in a professional environment
• Development of complex products through trade studies or system design and analysis
• Advanced Inventor user or equivalent (NX, Solidworks, etc.), including finite element analysis
• Expertise in mechanism design, electro-mechanical actuators, high-performance hydraulics, sensors, or data analysis
• Plastic and steel design and materials knowledge
• [Nice to have] Design for manufacturing and design for assembly experience
• [Nice to have] C++ or Python programming experience

At the core of Beanstalk is a new set of modern, industrial technology. For example, we've built an autonomous forklift that costs less than $10k (compared to $500k) and can be controlled via an API or through an iPad running our React app.

"What does this have to do with growing plants?", you might be asking. Well, before launching a large scale farm, we spent years designing an inexpensive system that contains everything a plant needs to grow in the form of a pallet. As a result, our farms look like distribution centers, and our machinery operates on easy to move and store pallets. This reduces vertical farming costs 10x which expands our selection of profitable crops a great deal.

To further reduce costs and increase throughput, we design machinery that plants, moves, and processes the food we grow. To do this as quickly and cheaply as possible, we build our own systems.

Machines are designed in Autodesk software. Actuators and sensors interface through industrial I/O boards which are controlled by Linux-based single-board computers (SBCs) like the Raspberry Pi. We deploy to the SBCs over the air and monitor them via cloud-based systems. Operators interact machinery via React Web Apps that communicate with our databases via a GraphQL API.

If you're interested in revolutionizing industrial machinery and building technology that will locally grow foods from around the world, please apply!