Software Engineer, UI/UX

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. THE ROLE ------------

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. WHAT YOU’LL OWN -------------------

• 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

WHAT YOU’LL BRING

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• 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