
Burro is a pioneering company focused on developing autonomous collaborative robots designed to enhance productivity in agriculture and other outdoor environments. Their flagship product, the Burro, works alongside farm workers to increase efficiency, offsetting the need for additional labor while providing a versatile platform that can adapt to various tasks such as harvesting and towing. With a strong emphasis on innovation, Burro integrates advanced technologies like machine learning and high-precision GPS, positioning itself as a leader in the autonomous farming sector. The company has demonstrated significant traction with numerous units sold and extensive operational hours, indicating a robust market presence and demand for their solutions.

Burro is a pioneering company focused on developing autonomous collaborative robots designed to enhance productivity in agriculture and other outdoor environments. Their flagship product, the Burro, works alongside farm workers to increase efficiency, offsetting the need for additional labor while providing a versatile platform that can adapt to various tasks such as harvesting and towing. With a strong emphasis on innovation, Burro integrates advanced technologies like machine learning and high-precision GPS, positioning itself as a leader in the autonomous farming sector. The company has demonstrated significant traction with numerous units sold and extensive operational hours, indicating a robust market presence and demand for their solutions.
Product: Autonomous collaborative outdoor robots for agriculture (Burro family: Burro, Verde, Grande, Sprayito, Cortador)
Founded / HQ: Based in Philadelphia (operations also in Visalia, CA)
Tech: Computer vision, RTK/high-precision GPS, onboard CPU/GPU, ML (Pop-Up Autonomy™)
Funding: Total disclosed funding $36.65M; Series A $10.9M (2021), Series B $24M (2024)
Scale: Reported hundreds of systems deployed (~300 as of Jan 2024)
Agricultural labor productivity and outdoor material transport
AgTech / Robotics
10.9M USD
Reported ~90 robots in the field at time of Series A
24M USD
Reported ~300 systems operating
“S2G Ventures; Toyota Ventures; Catalyst Investors; Translink Capital; F-Prime; ADM Capital; Radicle Growth; ffVC”
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 Investors, Translink Capital, 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 you: We are seeking an experienced Senior Robotics Infrastructure & DevOps Engineer to bring their expertise to our growing team. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of scaling companies into high-reliability enterprise-level infrastructure and systems. This role is crucial for accelerating our entire engineering team and will work closely with our QA Software Engineer to ensure seamless development, testing, and deployment workflows, with a specific focus on optimizing build systems, packaging, and continuous integration/delivery processes.
We are looking for a teammate who shares our enthusiasm for working with collaborative robots made to handle the tedious and physically demanding parts of agricultural work, has a passion for delivering a high-quality end-to-end user experience, and maintains a collaborative attitude that supports and uplifts everyone they work with.
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.5 years of experience designing, implementing, and managing infrastructure for robotics, IoT, or similarly complex systems, with a strong emphasis on build and deployment pipelines.5 years of experience managing Linux-based infrastructure, including system administration of on-premises and cloud environments.
Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS) and databases (PostgreSQL).Strong experience with containerization technologies, including Docker.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform and configuration management tools like Ansible.
Proficiency with scripting languages such as Bash and Python for automation.
Proven experience with continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) models, including setting up and optimizing build systems and workflows (e.g., GitHub Workflows, Jenkins).Working knowledge of developer tools, open-source technologies, and cloud services.
Knowledge of cost, efficiency, and productivity optimization methods for build and deployment processes.
Ability to clearly communicate complex advanced concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Desired Qualifications:
Experience with Ubuntu, ROS, and build systems like CMake, including managing package dependencies and packaging (e.g., Debian, Flatpak).Familiarity with SSO, SSL/TLS, and advanced Identity and Access Management (IAM) concepts.
Ability to create system and architecture diagrams with tools such as mermaid/C4 Model.
Experience with metrics, telemetry, and observability infrastructure (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana) for monitoring build and system health.
Familiarity with advanced PostgreSQL database administration best practices, including performance tuning and replication.
Experience in optimizing build times and managing complex dependency structures.
Knowledge of tools for profiling and performance metrics of code.
RECRUITERS: We are not accepting agency resumes for this position. Please do not forward or submit resumes through our website or to any of our employees directly. Burro is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies.