Salary Range: 160000 to 180000 (Currency: USD) (Pay period: per-year-salary)

About Us

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, Cibus, FPrime, Toyota Ventures, FFVC, Xplorer, and Radicle, Burro was created to solve the labor shortages facing farmers using robotics.

We are seeking a Senior Robotics AI Engineer with strong applied machine learning and robotics experience to own and evolve the intelligence behind robot perception and navigation across complex indoor and outdoor sites. This is a hands-on, production focused role where you will design, deploy, optimise and maintain AI systems that directly impact how our robot perceive, reason and move.

The ideal candidate will have a strong grasp of robotics and software engineering fundamentals, along with proven experience in deploying AI accelerated solutions in production environments.

Responsibilities

Own the development and productionization of ML systems, including model design, training, fine tuning, optimization, deployment and continuous improvement.
Develop and adapt models across multimodal inputs (e.g., camera, LiDAR) and other AI domains as product needs evolve.
Integrate ML outputs into the robotics stack, ensuring reliable performance under real-time and hardware constraints.
Investigate customer reported issues and drive root-cause analysis to improve system robustness.
Build and improve infrastructure for rapid experimentation, model iteration, evaluation and deployment.
Improve and scale data collection, labeling, preprocessing and validation pipelines to ensure high-quality training datasets.
Implement robust simulation and field testing workflows, along with production monitoring to detect drift and performance degradation.
Collaborate cross-functionally with Product and Engineering to translate requirements into scalable AI solutions.

Master’s degree or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science or a related technical field.
4+ years of professional experience in developing software for robotics and machine learning.
Strong proficiency in Python and C++.
Experience using ML frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, or similar
Proven experience building, deploying and maintaining ML models in production, ideally on edge systems.
Hands-on experience working with camera and LiDAR data for perception and navigation tasks.
Experience with ML optimization and acceleration tools (e.g., TensorRT), including familiarity with quantization, pruning and other model compression techniques.
Strong problem solving mindset and comfort working across system boundaries.
Ability to clearly communicate complex advanced concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Continual learning mindset and staying updated with the latest ML research and methodologies.

Nice To Haves

MLOps Experience (experiment tracking, dataset versioning)
Proficiency in ROS
Familiarity with Docker, Linux and production infrastructure environments

Perks

Competitive salary and benefits package (medical/dental/vision)
Early-Stage Equity
401K Plan
Unlimited PTO
Paid parental leave

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.

About the company

Burro by Augean Robotics develops autonomous, vision-based robots to assist farm workers. The flagship Burro uses on-board cameras and sensors to perceive fields, plan paths, and perform tasks alongside laborers, with operators monitoring through service agreements. Revenue comes from selling Burro units plus ongoing maintenance, service contracts, and software updates. The goal is to reduce dependence on seasonal labor and boost productivity for large-scale growers in crops like table grapes, blueberries, and nursery crops.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$36.7M

Headquarters

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Founded

2017

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

Burro closed a $24M Series B in June 2026, signaling investor conviction.
Petitti Family Farms expanded Burro fleets in 2025 and 2026, proving repeatable deployments.
Grande 44 launched June 2026, opening industrial and outdoor markets beyond agriculture.

What critics are saying

Hardware scaling burns cash; June 2026’s $24M Series B finances limited runway.
Specialty-crop demand concentrates in grapes, berries, and nurseries, exposing Burro to adoption slowdowns.
John Deere, Kubota, and niche robotics rivals can outspend Burro before Grande 44 ships.

What makes Burro unique

Burro’s Pop-Up Autonomy targets rugged specialty-crop logistics, not generic row-crop autonomy.
Burro combines vision-based robots, GPS, and teach-and-repeat workflows for crews.
Burro’s portfolio now spans harvest assist, towing, transport, mowing, and spraying.

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Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Life Insurance
401(k) Retirement Plan
Company Equity
Unlimited Paid Time Off
Paid Parental Leave

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Associated Press

Oct 20th, 2026

Burro's Grande 44 autonomous robot ships globally, backed by 800 robots and one million hours

Philadelphia-based Burro has made Grande 44, its most powerful autonomous work platform, generally available. The robot is shipping through the company's direct sales team and a network of 50 dealers across 17 countries. Grande 44 opened for pre-order in June, and production began in August. It can tow up to 6,000 lbs, carry up to 1,500 lbs, and tow, mow, spray, and patrol. Burro says it works on arrival, with no changes to a customer's facilities. Burro has deployed more than 800 robots and logged more than one million autonomous hours. At Mesa Vineyards, Burro robots cut mowing costs from $22 to $5 per acre. "The industry has plenty of prototypes and very few products," said chief executive officer Charlie Andersen.

Associated Press

Oct 19th, 2026

Burro's Grande 44 autonomous robot named one of TIME's best inventions of 2026

Burro, a Philadelphia-based robotics company, said its Grande 44 autonomous work platform has been named one of TIME's Best Inventions of 2026 in the Agriculture category. TIME's editors pick 300 inventions each year. Grande 44 is Burro's sixth and newest model. It offers up to 6,000 lbs of towing capacity, 1,500 lbs of payload, 44 HP of peak power, and up to 40 kWh of battery capacity. It can tow, transport, mow, spray, and patrol without changes to a customer's facility. More than 800 Burro robots operate in 17 countries, having logged over one million autonomous hours in vineyards, nurseries, orchards, and industrial sites. "Our customers are proving the value of our robots every day, in the mud, the heat and the dust," said chief executive officer Charlie Andersen.

WTWH Media LLC

Nov 13th, 2024

Fieldwork Robotics Partners With Burro To Help With Raspberry Harvesting

Listen to this articleFieldwork and Augean have developed a base-agnostic raspberry-harvesting payload, shown here on a Burro. Source: Fieldwork Robotics. Like other industries, raspberry growers face growing labor challenges. Fieldwork Robotics Ltd. today announced that it has signed a collaboration agreement with Augean Robotics Inc., manufacturer of the Burro autonomous and collaborative mobile robot. Fieldwork Robotics is developing an autonomous raspberry-harvesting robot

AgFunder

Jul 24th, 2024

The 7 Biggest Farm Robotics Deals Of 2024 So Far

The farm robotics sector has shown some resilience in 2024 and continues to bring innovative products to market, despite the challenging year for fundraising. In the first half of 2024, the AgFunder-defined Farm Robotics, Mechanization, and Equipment category has raised nearly $399 million, a 21.1 % decline from $505.5 million in H1 2023. [Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company is AgFunder.]. However, this drop needs to be considered in the context of a general investment contraction that has characterized the last 18 months. Overall agrifoodtech investment was also down in H1 2024: 12.5% compared to H1 2023. The drop in funding to the robotics sector is more or less in line with general trends