Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. hexafarms is building software and hardware for the future of commercial food production, using ML and AI to help growers optimize their operations. The Product Engineer will own commercial production software modules end to end, coordinate hardware, ML, AI, agronomy, and software experts, engage directly with customers, and build and ship products.
Responsibilities
- Own modules end-to-end– from customer requirements to shipped, paid-for product. The outcome is yours
- Orchestrate across disciplines– get hardware, ML, agronomy, and AI engineers aligned and moving, and earn their trust by genuinely understanding their work
- Talk to customers directly– understand what they need, decide what to build, and measure whether it worked
- Build when it's the fastest path– prototype, integrate ML into the product, ship full-stack features, unblock yourself in unfamiliar territory
- Make things happen– close the loop after shipping, don't just hand off a spec
Skills
- You've **founded or co-founded a company, or owned a product like a founder would–**built it, shipped it, and lived with the consequences
- 3+ years building/managing production software
- Strongly familiar with at least one backend and one frontend technology
- You're good at talking to users and turning fuzzy needs into something concrete
- Most of our customers only speak German
- You can go deep across unfamiliar disciplines– hardware, ML, a gnarly customer workflow, cloud ops far enough to make good calls and keep experts moving
- Habitual AI power user (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or whatever's next)
- Strong opinions on AI-augmented engineering; always finding tools that make the team faster
- You can explain technical trade-offs to engineers and non-engineers alike, and you know when to cut corners and when to be rigorous
- Background or genuine curiosity in agriculture, climate, or deep tech / hardware
- Some experience interfacing ML or CV into a real product
- You've worked close to hardware or physical systems before
Benefits
- Equity
- Visiting farms
- Morning matchas
- Strawberries
- Berlin, hybrid
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