Robotics Platform Engineer

About Burro

Burro is the leading robotics company in the world by number of robots working outdoors in the field with real customers. Our mission is to free people from tedious work and solve the critical labor shortages faced by farmers and others that work outdoors. 

To accomplish our mission, we need a world-class, diverse team where everyone feels comfortable sharing their ideas. With this in mind, we strive to create a work environment where every employee can be themselves and express their perspective – this enables us to deliver the most creative and innovative solutions to problems our customers face.

Headquartered in Philadelphia with an office in central California, and backed by top Agtech and autonomy investors, including S2G, Catalyst, Translink, Cibus, FPrime, Toyota Ventures, FFVC, Xplorer, and Radicle, Burro was created to solve the labor shortages facing farmers using robotics. 

Burros can be described as Disney's Wall-E for agriculture and work outdoors, in a 1.0 format.  They function, today, as computer vision  based autonomous ground vehicles for carrying, towing, and scouting, and are designed to lay the base for the fully autonomous future of work outdoors.  We have a growing triple digit fleet deployed in paid commercial use within vineyards, nurseries, berries, and beyond, and demand for our product is accelerating, so we are growing our team.  

About The Role

We are looking for a Senior Robotics Platform Engineer to own the full lifecycle of how our robots are built, provisioned, tested, and updated in the field. This is not a cloud DevOps role; this is a systems infrastructure role rooted in scaling bare-metal Linux environments, and the operational complexity of deploying software to a fleet of autonomous machines in demanding conditions.

You will take us from a largely manual, labor-intensive provisioning process to a reliable, scalable, automated, and instrumented pipeline. You will own end-of-line testing, system imaging, hardware bring-up, and the tooling that makes our engineering and support teams faster and more confident.

The ideal candidate has built and scaled provisioning systems before, whether for robots, medical devices, automotive systems, industrial IoT, or large-scale enterprise hardware deployments. You understand what it means to image thousands of devices reliably, catch failures before they reach the field, and build infrastructure that manufacturing and support teams can actually use.

You will design solutions for the correct scale: avoiding the complexity of a solution that scales to millions, opting for the development speed of a solution that scales to thousands. You are comfortable operating in a system that is actively bootstrapping itself; building or avoiding the infrastructure that would already exist at a larger company.