About BurnBot
Wildfire has stopped being a season. BurnBot builds the machines that get ahead of it — remotely operated systems that apply and contain prescribed fire, and platforms that clear heavy fuel on terrain that isn’t safe for crews.
Our fleet is at work today for PG&E, CAL FIRE, the U.S. Forest Service, Caltrans, fire districts, and tribal nations across California, Oregon, and Washington — treating land at up to 40x the pace of conventional methods. We’re roboticists, engineers, and career fire practitioners. Hardware we design in South San Francisco is in the dirt within weeks, and the people who designed it are usually standing next to it.
If you like machines, this is a very good place to start. Our shop builds heavy equipment that goes to work in the dirt weeks after it’s designed, and you’ll have your hands on all of it.
You’ll design real parts with a mentor, build and instrument the tests that prove them, and go out with the field team to see what the terrain does to your work.
Detail design of parts and subassemblies — your own CAD models and drawings, reviewed by a senior engineer
Test rigs and instrumentation: build the fixture, wire the sensors, run the test, write up what happened
Builds and retrofits, in the shop and sometimes at a field site
Documentation crews can follow — service procedures, spares lists, and assembly instructions that work at 5 a.m.
0–5 years of experience. New graduates are genuinely welcome here
Working CAD ability in a major platform — SolidWorks, NX, CATIA, or Creo/Pro-E — and the willingness to live in it
Shop instincts: you’ve built things, broken things, and fixed them
Enough data analysis to turn a test into a conclusion
Willingness to be outside, in the dust and heat, when that’s where the answer is
B.S. in mechanical, electrical, or mechatronics engineering, or equivalent hands-on experience
Formula SAE, Baja, a robotics team, or anything else where you built a machine on a deadline
Machining, welding, or fabrication skills
Internships in heavy equipment, agriculture, automotive, or aerospace
Basic electrical debug — harnesses, sensors, a multimeter
An interest in wildfire, forestry, or climate work
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Burnbot is a company that provides services related to fire safety and prevention.