Software Engineer, UI/UX

HorseShoe Beverage Company; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 115,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Remote on heads-down days

Job summary

BurnBot is seeking a senior front-end engineer to own the operator interface used on live burns. You’ll design mission planning, mapping, alarms, and fleet tooling for field crews in South San Francisco.

Bring 5+ years of production front-end work with TypeScript/React, and experience with Mapbox/Leaflet/deck.gl. You’ll work onsite and occasionally in the field, shaping a safety-critical UI used in real-world operations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building production front-end software with TypeScript and React.
• Experience with mapping and geospatial UI (Mapbox/Leaflet/deck.gl).
• Strong design sense and ability to translate vague needs into usable interfaces.
• Solid testing discipline for safety-critical software near fire.
• Willingness to work with operators in the field and observe interface failures.

Responsibilities

• Own the operator interface: telemetry, video, machine state, and controls.
• Design mission planning and mapping tools for boundary drawing and plans.
• Develop alarms and alerts, and determine interruption workflows.
• Contribute to the UX design process with sketches and the built product.
• Maintain a design system as the fleet and team grow.

Skills

Front-end development

TypeScript

React

Geospatial UI

Field collaboration

Tools

Mapbox

Leaflet

deck.gl

ROS web bridges

WebRTC

Job description

• Location 340 Shaw Rd,South San Francisco, CA, 94080,United States
• Base Pay $115,000.00 - $170,000.00 / Year
• Employee Type Exempt (FT)

Description

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

Requirements

WHAT YOU’LL BRING

5+ years building production front-end software, with strong TypeScript and React (or equivalent)

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

NICE TO HAVE

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

Summary

HOW WE WORK

Based onsite in South San Francisco — design, build, and test all happen in one building, and being near the machines is most of the point

Flexible within that. You own your calendar: work the hours where you’re sharpest, and go remote on heads-down days.

Expect a few days a month in the field across California, Oregon, and Washington. Watching your work run on a live burn is the best part of the job.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

Base salary: $115,000 – $170,000 — final offers reflect experience and demonstrated scope.

Burnbot is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including but not limited to, pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with one or more disabilities, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at [phone] x 1010 or [e-mail].