Ohalo
Founded in 2019, Ohalo develops novel breeding systems and improved plant varieties that help farmers grow more food with fewer natural resources, increasing the yield, resiliency, and genetic diversity of crops to sustainably feed our population. Ohalo's breakthrough technology, Boosted Breeding™, will usher in a new era of improved productivity to radically transform global agriculture.
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Senior Product Manager - Industrial Systems & Automation
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Position: Senior Product Manager - Industrial Systems & Automation
Location: South San Francisco
Type: Full-time
Desired start date: ASAP
The Opportunity:
Ohalo is building the factory of the future for biology. To scale our technology, we must seamlessly integrate custom hardware, robotics, and operational software into our greenhouses and lab production facilities. We are seeking a Senior PM for Industrial Systems who thrives on physical constraints-throughput, cycle times, and floor-space optimization. This is a role for someone who wants to see their work move physical objects, not just pixels. You will solve for non-deterministic variables (like plant growth and biological health) that traditional manufacturing doesn't face. You should be comfortable designing the digital workflows that govern throughput, material flow, and real-time error handling in complex, non-deterministic environments. You will own the systems that move our "Boosted" plants from the lab into the world, solving the complex orchestration problems that arise when biology meets industrial-scale automation.
Responsibilities:
- Architect the Physical-Digital Loop: Own the product vision for how integrated hardware/software platforms work together to manage plant movement, sorting, and processing.
- Design for Scale: Work with Engineers to identify bottlenecks in our production lines and build the software and hardware/automation solutions to break them.
- Live in the Field/Factory: Spend time in the greenhouse and on the production floor; your best insights will come from watching a robot struggle with a specific plant geometry.
- Manage Multi-Disciplinary Trade-offs: Negotiate the grey area between mechanical hardware, electrical sensors, and software logic.
- Deliver Solutions, Not Just Features: Identify where a simple manual process is superior to a complex automated one-and vice versa.
- Focus on Uptime and UX: Your products must be reliable, safe, and intuitive for the operators who use them every day both from a digital and physical perspective.
- End-to-End Ownership: You own the outcome-from the first napkin sketch of a sorting workflow to its full-scale deployment in a commercial facility.
Requirements / Candidate Profile:
- Technical Foundation: Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Industrial Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- Physical Systems Experience: 5–8+ years of product management experience in robotics, automotive, aerospace, or advanced manufacturing (e.g., Tesla, SpaceX, Rivian, Amazon Robotics).
- First-Principles Thinker: You start with the laws of physics and the constraints of the facility, not just what the software can do.
- Systems & Orchestration: Proven experience building or scaling industrial orchestration systems (e.g., modern MES, WMS, or Fleet Management) that bridge the gap between high-level logic and physical execution.
- Operational Grit: You are willing to get your hands dirty, troubleshoot hardware in the field, and work alongside technicians.
- Decisive Leadership: Ability to make fast, high-stakes trade-offs in an environment where reverting a deploy isn't always an option.
Nice to Have / Bonus Points:
- Experience with computer vision in a manufacturing context
- Background in agricultural automation or related high throughput production line (automated greenhouses, sorting, or irrigation).
- Experience with Digital Twin modeling and optimizing for industrial facilities.
- Experience scaling a physical operation from R&D to high-volume commercial production.
- Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, or PMP certifications a plus
The anticipated pay range for this role is $140,000 – $180,000 per year for our South San Francisco, CA location, though salary will be based on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, and location.
About Ohalo:
Ohalo™ aims to accelerate evolution to unlock nature's potential. Founded in 2019, Ohalo develops novel breeding systems and improved plant varieties that help farmers grow more food with fewer natural resources, increasing the yield, resiliency, and genetic diversity of crops to sustainably feed our population. Ohalo's breakthrough technology, Boosted Breeding™, will usher in a new era of improved productivity to radically transform global agriculture. For more information, visit www.ohalo.com.
Notes: If you previously applied for a job at Ohalo Genetics, we encourage you to restate your interest in the position by submitting your application.
Ohalo is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. Ohalo is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. Please let your recruiter know if you need an accommodation at any point during the interview process.
No visa sponsorship is available for this position at this time.
This organization participates in E-Verify. Posters linked here.
No recruiters, please.
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Position Title: Senior Fullstack Engineer
Location: San Francisco, CA
Time Type: Full Time
The Opportunity:
Ohalo is seeking an experienced Senior Fullstack Engineer to build and evolve internal platforms that power our breeding, automation, and machine-learning workflows. This role spans backend services, data systems, web applications, and mobile tools, enabling scientists, engineers, and operators to interact with complex systems in reliable, intuitive ways.
You’ll focus on internal tooling, system integration, and platform reliability—building the connective tissue between robotics, ML pipelines, and human workflows.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and own internal platforms and infrastructure used by science, ML, and automation teams.
- Develop and maintain backend services and APIs using Python (FastAPI) that support web, mobile, and ML-driven workflows.
- Build and maintain fullstack internal applications, including:
- Web frontends (e.g., React)
- Mobile applications using React Native for operational and field workflows
- Design and operate cloud infrastructure on GCP, including networking, compute, storage, and IAM.
- Manage infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi) and deployment pipelines.
- Build and evolve scalable data platforms using BigQuery, Python, and Spark.
- Implement and maintain service-oriented and event-driven architectures using Pub/Sub, Kafka, and related tooling.
- Partner with ML engineers to support model deployment, orchestration, and production integration.
- Establish and maintain observability, reliability, and security across services and infrastructure (logging, metrics, alerting).
- Improve developer experience through better abstractions, tooling, CI/CD, and documentation.
- Proactively identify and address scalability, performance, and operational risks across the platform.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical field (Computer Science, Engineering, or similar).
- 5+ years of experience as a Fullstack, Platform, Backend, or Infrastructure-oriented Engineer.
- Strong backend experience with Python and frameworks such as FastAPI.
- Hands-on experience operating cloud infrastructure on GCP (preferred) or AWS.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and production deployments.
- Experience designing and operating service-oriented and event-driven systems.
- Familiarity with messaging and streaming platforms (Pub/Sub, Kafka).
- Strong systems thinking, with the ability to reason across product, platform, data, and infrastructure layers.
- Comfortable working independently in a cross-functional, distributed environment.
- Clear communicator who can collaborate effectively with science, ML, and automation teams.
Nice to haves:
- Proficiency with frontend development (e.g., React) and mobile development using React Native.
- Experience with Agentic workflows.
The anticipated pay range for this role is $150,000 - $190,000 per year for our San Francisco, CA location, though salary will be based on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, and location.
About Ohalo:
Ohalo™ aims to accelerate evolution to unlock nature's potential. Founded in 2019, Ohalo develops novel breeding systems and improved plant varieties that help farmers grow more food with fewer natural resources, increasing the yield, resiliency, and genetic diversity of crops to sustainably feed our population. Ohalo's breakthrough technology, Boosted Breeding™, will usher in a new era of improved productivity to radically transform global agriculture. For more information, visit www.ohalo.com.
Notes: If you previously applied for a job at Ohalo Genetics, we encourage you to restate your interest in the position by submitting your application.
Ohalo is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. Ohalo is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. Please let your recruiter know if you need an accommodation at any point during the interview process.
No visa sponsorship is available for this position at this time.
This organization participates in E-Verify. Posters linked here.
No recruiters, please.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Ohalo
Position: Product Manager - Lab Systems & Platforms
Location: South San Francisco
Type: Full-time
Desired start date: ASAP
The Opportunity:
Ohalo is moving beyond R&D into a phase of massive operational scale. The bridge between our "Boosted Breeding" breakthroughs and our ability to execute lies in the systems we build. We are seeking a PM to own the digital and physical workflows that enable our scientists to program plants-from genomic discovery to large-scale breeding pipelines. This is not a role for a dashboard PM, it is a role for an operator who understands that in biology, the ground truth happens at the bench. You will build the foundational operating system for a new era of agriculture, working at the intersection of molecular biology, data science, automation and software.
Responsibilities:
- Own the Scientific Workflow: Deeply embed with molecular biologists and breeders to map complex biological processes and translate them into robust, scalable software, hardware/automation and data systems.
- Define Problems from the Bench: Spend significant time in the lab; identify the friction points where biological variability meets system rigidity.
- Drive End-to-End Delivery: Own the entire lifecycle-from identifying a gap in genomic data tracking to deploying solutions that allow scientists to make breeding decisions 10x faster.
- Ship Pragmatic Systems: Focus on utility and reliability. You will partner with world-class scientists to turn experimental breakthroughs into industrial-grade systems.
- Manage Scientific Trade-offs: Make high-stakes decisions when biological constraints conflict with software scalability.
- Bridge the Data Gap: Ensure our data platforms capture high-fidelity ground truth to power our AI and ML breeding models.
- Extreme Ownership: You aren't just writing specs; you are responsible for the outcome-whether that’s a successful data migration or a new automated sequencing workflow.
Requirements / Candidate Profile:
- Technical Foundation: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related quantitative field preferred.
- Proven Track Record: 3–5+ years of product management experience working directly with software and hardware engineers to ship APIs, data pipelines, or orchestration layers across complex environments.
- Operational Systems DNA: Demonstrated success building tools, platforms, or data systems where user experience directly impacts operational efficiency.
- Ownership Mindset: You have a history of taking a manual, Excel-based process and turning it into a streamlined, automated system.
- Clear Communicator: Ability to distill highly abstract biological concepts into clear technical requirements for engineering teams.
Nice to Have / Bonus Points:
- Direct experience with genomic data, liquid handling robots, LIMS and integrated hardware/software platforms.
- Experience in plant breeding, CRISPR, or agricultural biotechnology.
- Experience working alongside AI/ML teams in an applied scientific setting.
- Experience at a high-growth startup (Series A through C).
The anticipated pay range for this role is $115,000 – $145,000 per year for our South San Francisco, CA location, though salary will be based on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, and location.
About Ohalo:
Ohalo™ aims to accelerate evolution to unlock nature's potential. Founded in 2019, Ohalo develops novel breeding systems and improved plant varieties that help farmers grow more food with fewer natural resources, increasing the yield, resiliency, and genetic diversity of crops to sustainably feed our population. Ohalo's breakthrough technology, Boosted Breeding™, will usher in a new era of improved productivity to radically transform global agriculture. For more information, visit www.ohalo.com.
Notes: If you previously applied for a job at Ohalo Genetics, we encourage you to restate your interest in the position by submitting your application.
Ohalo is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. Ohalo is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. Please let your recruiter know if you need an accommodation at any point during the interview process.
No visa sponsorship is available for this position at this time.
This organization participates in E-Verify. Posters linked here.
No recruiters, please.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Ohalo