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 Mechatronics 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 mechanical, electrical, and software engineers to rapidly design and prototype machines
• Design and develop mechatronic systems, focusing on servo mechanisms, actuators, and precision control systems.
• Conduct dynamic analysis, including kinematic and kinetic modeling, to ensure system performance and reliability.
• Create detailed 3D models, assemblies, and technical drawings using CAD software (e.g., SolidWorks).
• Perform simulations and analysis to optimize designs for durability, efficiency, and performance.
• Prototype, test, and validate designs, analyzing results to refine and improve system performance.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to servo systems, motion control, and dynamic performance.
• Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies to incorporate best practices into designs.
• Document designs, specifications, and test results to support product development and compliance with industry standards.

Qualifications

• B.S. degree in Mechatronics Engineering, or related field
• 6+ years of experience in a professional environment
• Expert-level skills in C++ or Python programming
• Development of complex products through trade studies or system design and analysis
• Advanced Inventor user or equivalent (NX, Solidworks, etc.)
• Expertise in mechanism design, electro-mechanical actuators, high-performance hydraulics, sensors, or data analysis

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!