Professionals and graduates seeking opportunities in engineering, technology, automation, artificial intelligence, and quality assurance can now apply for the latest vacancies at One Acre Fund. The organization has announced several exciting career opportunities across Kenya and the East African region, including senior leadership, engineering, and internship positions.
One Acre Fund is a nonprofit social enterprise that supports millions of smallholder farmers across Africa by providing financing, quality farm inputs, agricultural training, market access, and innovative technology solutions. The organization continues to invest in digital transformation and engineering talent to improve agricultural systems and increase productivity for farming communities.
The latest recruitment features opportunities for experienced engineering leaders, senior software quality professionals, and interns looking to gain practical experience in quality engineering. These positions provide candidates with an opportunity to contribute to technology-driven solutions that improve agriculture while working in an international, mission-driven organization.
Below are the available positions and their respective job summaries.
1. Tupande Automation Engineering Lead (Fixed-term)
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Employment Type: Fixed-term
The Tupande Automation Engineering Lead will provide technical leadership for automation initiatives that improve operational efficiency across the Tupande program. The role focuses on designing and implementing automation solutions that eliminate repetitive processes, improve accuracy, and enable teams to scale operations efficiently.
The successful candidate will work closely with engineering teams, product managers, operations teams, and other stakeholders to identify automation opportunities and deliver sustainable technical solutions.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading the design and implementation of automation strategies across business operations.
- Building scalable automation solutions that improve productivity and operational efficiency.
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify manual processes suitable for automation.
- Managing automation engineering projects from planning through deployment.
- Providing technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams.
- Establishing engineering standards, best practices, and coding guidelines.
- Ensuring automation systems are reliable, secure, and maintainable.
- Monitoring system performance and implementing continuous improvements.
- Supporting integration between automation platforms and existing business systems.
- Working closely with stakeholders to prioritize automation initiatives.
- Evaluating emerging automation technologies and recommending appropriate solutions.
- Managing project timelines and ensuring successful delivery of engineering initiatives.
- Troubleshooting technical issues affecting automation systems.
- Supporting organizational digital transformation initiatives.
- Driving innovation through modern engineering practices and process optimization.
This position is suitable for experienced engineering professionals who enjoy solving complex operational challenges through technology while leading multidisciplinary technical teams.
2. Senior Quality Engineer
Location: Nairobi, Kenya or Kigali, Rwanda
The Senior Quality Engineer will play an important role in ensuring that software products meet high standards of reliability, performance, security, and user experience before deployment.
The position involves collaborating with software engineers, product managers, and technical teams to develop comprehensive testing strategies that improve software quality throughout the development lifecycle.
Key responsibilities include:
- Designing and implementing comprehensive software testing strategies.
- Developing automated testing frameworks and reusable test suites.
- Executing manual and automated software testing activities.
- Identifying software defects and coordinating timely resolution.
- Collaborating with software developers to improve product quality.
- Participating in software design reviews from a quality assurance perspective.
- Creating detailed test plans, test cases, and testing documentation.
- Monitoring software quality metrics and reporting testing progress.
- Performing regression, integration, system, and performance testing.
- Supporting continuous integration and continuous deployment processes.
- Reviewing software requirements to ensure testability.
- Improving software testing methodologies and engineering processes.
- Mentoring junior quality engineers and promoting quality best practices.
- Working closely with cross-functional teams to ensure successful product releases.
- Investigating production issues and supporting root cause analysis.
- Continuously improving testing efficiency through automation and process enhancement.
This opportunity is ideal for experienced quality engineering professionals who are passionate about delivering reliable software products while improving engineering standards across development teams.
3. Tupande AI Engineering Lead (Fixed-term)
Location: Kenya or South Africa
Employment Type: Fixed-term
The Tupande AI Engineering Lead will provide technical leadership for artificial intelligence initiatives supporting One Acre Fund’s agricultural programs. The role focuses on developing AI-powered solutions that improve operational efficiency, decision-making, and service delivery for smallholder farmers.
Working closely with engineering, data science, and product teams, the successful candidate will lead AI solution development from concept through deployment while ensuring scalability, reliability, and long-term sustainability.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading the development of AI-powered products and technical solutions.
- Designing scalable artificial intelligence systems for operational use.
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify AI opportunities.
- Managing AI engineering projects from planning through implementation.
- Providing technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams.
- Supporting machine learning model deployment and lifecycle management.
- Integrating AI solutions with existing software platforms.
- Establishing engineering standards for AI development.
- Monitoring AI system performance and implementing continuous improvements.
- Evaluating new AI technologies and recommending appropriate adoption.
- Supporting responsible and ethical implementation of artificial intelligence.
- Managing technical risks associated with AI projects.
- Driving innovation through emerging AI technologies.
- Ensuring solutions align with organizational objectives.
- Supporting knowledge sharing across engineering teams.
- Continuously improving AI engineering practices and development processes.
This position is designed for senior engineering leaders with strong experience in artificial intelligence, software engineering, and technical leadership.
4. Quality Engineering Intern
Location: Nairobi, Kenya or Kigali, Rwanda
Job Type: Internship
The Quality Engineering Internship offers an opportunity for students and recent graduates to gain practical experience in software quality assurance within a collaborative engineering environment.
Interns will work alongside experienced engineers to learn software testing methodologies, automation practices, and quality assurance processes while contributing to real engineering projects.
Key responsibilities include:
- Assisting in software testing activities across multiple applications.
- Executing manual test cases and documenting test results.
- Supporting development of automated testing scripts.
- Reporting software defects and assisting with issue tracking.
- Participating in software quality reviews.
- Learning software testing tools and engineering workflows.
- Supporting regression and integration testing activities.
- Preparing testing documentation and reports.
- Collaborating with software developers to verify bug fixes.
- Participating in sprint planning and engineering meetings.
- Assisting with quality assurance process improvements.
- Learning continuous integration and testing practices.
- Supporting release validation activities.
- Contributing to documentation of testing procedures.
- Gaining practical experience with modern software engineering practices.
This internship provides an excellent learning environment for individuals interested in software engineering, quality assurance, automation testing, and technology careers within an international nonprofit organization.
Why Consider These Opportunities?
These vacancies provide professionals and graduates with the opportunity to contribute to innovative technology solutions that directly support agricultural development across Africa. Depending on the role, successful candidates will work with multidisciplinary teams on automation, artificial intelligence, software quality, and digital transformation initiatives that improve services for millions of farmers.
Whether applying for an engineering leadership role or an internship, candidates will have the opportunity to work in a mission-driven environment that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.
How to Apply
Interested candidates should submit their applications through the official One Acre Fund careers portal before the respective application deadlines indicated for each position.
