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.
One operator supervising several machines on a live burn is the whole economic argument for what we build. That happens or doesn’t happen in the interface.
You’ll own the software people actually touch: mission planning, live supervision, mapping, alarms, and the fleet tooling behind them — designed for someone in gloves, in the sun, with smoke in the air.
The operator interface — live telemetry, video, machine state, and controls that stay legible under pressure
Mission planning and mapping: drawing treatment boundaries, setting plans, and reviewing what actually got treated
Alarms and alerts. What interrupts an operator, how loudly, and what it asks them to do
The design work itself. You’ll do your own UX here — research with crews, sketches, and the built thing.
A design system that keeps our tools coherent as the fleet and the team grow
5+ years building production front-end software, with strong TypeScript and React (or equivalent)
Experience with real-time and streaming data in the browser — telemetry, video, or live state
Mapping and geospatial UI work: Mapbox, Leaflet, deck.gl, or similar
Genuine design sense. You can take a vague need and come back with something usable
Testing discipline, because this software runs next to fire
Willingness to sit with operators in the field and watch your interface fail in front of you
Robotics, teleoperation, or industrial HMI interfaces
ROS web bridges, WebRTC, or low-latency video
Safety-critical or high-consequence UI experience
A design background before, or alongside, the engineering one
Wildland fire, forestry, or land management background
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Burnbot is a company that provides services related to fire safety and prevention.