Our Purpose:

Created by a team of busy parents, professionals, cooks, and food-lovers who care about what we eat, how we live, and where our food comes from, Gardyn designs and develops high density, intelligent, plug-n-play vertical gardens for the cultivation of top-quality produce anywhere, all year, and in any climate.

Featured as TIME’S Invention of the Year, our indoor vertical Gardyns improve lifestyle, health, and the environment by providing tasty, affordable, nutritious greens and fruits without sacrificing design, space, or resources. With already producing over 2 million pounds of Gardyn produce with no pesticide, no waste and 95% less water, we are here to help shape the future of food by leveraging new technologies, for less impact on the environment and giving access to healthy, tasty, nutritious food to all.

Gardyn’s Culture:

• Radical Candor: It is not about being right or wrong or saving face. What we care most about is to make the right decisions for the company.
• Freedom and Responsibility: Everybody at Gardyn is an adult and should be able to make the best decisions on their own with the best interest of the company in mind.
• Impact: We want to move the needle big time in everything we do, on the way the company is working, our business, our customers.
• Transparency and Collaboration: We care deeply for our customers, our colleagues, and for all that we are doing, how and why. It is not about ourselves; it is about what we want to accomplish as an organization.

Your Purpose: Ensure that electronics and systems of the Gardyn products are at the forefront of the industry and are reliable for an outstanding customer experience. You will own the performance of the electronics and hardware systems for the fleet.

To nail your job, you will:

• Develop and qualify system and electronics solutions for high performance and high reliability products for the Gardyn Portfolio
• Develop specifications, design and development of electronic systems, including hardware and firmware components
• Lead the certification process of Gardyn products
• Ensure adherence to quality standards and regulatory requirements throughout the product development lifecycle
• Handle qualification tests for the Gardyn products including normal use, abuse and accelerated testing
• Design to cost and quality with reduced time to market
• Lead effective failure detection, prevention, troubleshooting, root cause analysis and corrective actions for electronics & system performances
• Lead timely failure detection and analysis of the HW issues on the deployed fleet.
• FMEA - Failure Mode and Effect Analysis for the full Gardyn product
• Lead non-conformity management for production & deployed fleet on electronics & functional issues
• Perform effective root cause analysis on any electronic system failures or deviations from specifications
• Work closely with Customer Experience, engineering and manufacturing teams to implement corrective actions on product and/or on customer protocols improvements based on analysis results
• Leverage CS feedback to identify issues and necessary improvements.
• Support CS to ensure the troubleshooting they are doing is efficient and conducive to a great customer experience
• Develop the tools and analytics to track the hardware's behavior, anticipate issues, and ensure a high level of performance in the field overall
• Ensure Gardyn Products are at the forefront of innovation for electronics and LEDs
• Conduct research to identify potential areas for innovation and competitive advantages
• Stay abreast of industry trends, advancements, and emerging technologies in electronics engineering and qualification testing.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers within the team.

We'll love you because:

• You have 7-10 years of experience in electronic and system engineering
• You have a strong background in qualification testing and failure analysis: FMEA, fault tree analysis, accelerated testing methods
• Experience in IoT would be a plus
• You are data driven and analytical
• You are creative/ innovative/ passionate about the latest technologies
• You are autonomous, coachable, and able to lead a cross-departmental team
• You are comfortable in working both hands-on and on strategy
• You have strong leadership and team collaboration skills
• You are a self-starter and problem solver, able to shape plans from scratch and get organized accordingly
• You have exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence at all levels of the organization
• You possess the ability to lead thinking, explain the reasoning, and present findings and recommendations in a clear and articulate manner, both in writing and verbally
• You have a high level of comfort giving and receiving constructive feedback.
• The Gardyn culture resonates strongly with you
• You have a strong ability to anticipate future needs and plan accordingly
• You love teamwork in a multicultural and diverse environment
• You have outstanding listening and communication skills

You’ll love us because:

• We encourage unconventional thinking
• We are paving the path for innovation in home-grown food and education
• We are creating a movement bigger than ourselves that will positively enhance people’s lives
• We practice radical candor and encourage employees to be authentic and transparent when communicating with all internal employees as well as external vendor relationships
• We lead with context not control and let you determine the best ways to accomplish your goals
• We are a wicked smart yet humble team
• Egos are not welcome here
• Gardyn embodies the start-up culture with the success to back it up
• Come prepared to work in a highly adaptable, fast-paced environment

Job Location:

• Washington Metro Area - Bethesda and Gaithersburg, MD
• Hybrid Position: On-site at least 2/3 days a week to be in close contact of products (new & defective) and run tests
• Additional Travel - 25% time