Burro

Systems Engineer

Philadelphia, PA, US

In-personFull time roleSenior Level

17 days ago

About the Job

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: You understand the BIG picture. You understand how to architect systems. You can establish block diagrams to clearly communicate what is going on in the system to break things down into manageable chunks. You can take the voice of the customer or the Product Manager and turn that voice into a clear set of requirements, turn around and suballocate those requirements into ME, EE, SW, and System Test requirements. You understand the difference between Validation and Verification, and know what a V&V model is. You understand how to predetermine how each requirement later needs to be validated by Design, Inspection, Analysis, or Test. That’s the up-front Systems Engineering work.

In the tail end of the project, you understand that to deliver a quality product you need to put it through its paces. You need to receive the product and the requirements and pull together a comprehensive test plan that delivers on the promise of those requirements. Can we test this ourselves or do we need to outsource some of this testing? What is the series of tests that need to be performed so, in a statistically significant way, we can achieve our goals and meet our requirements with a confidence interval that meets our reliability targets? You understand how, if this product is going to last 5 years, what is the accelerated testing necessary to achieve that requirement. And you are able to author test reports closing out the test program so years later we can look back on the testing and understand what was the configuration under test, what was the environment, what were the conditions of the test, what were the pass/fail criteria, and did we meet the objectives of the test.

You put yourself in the shoes of the customer. You are entrepreneurial and collaborative. You are passionate about mobile robotics and about designing and developing systems for real-world-use. You enjoy defeating complex problems, and love to build, tinker and create with a driven team.

Responsibilities

Requirements definition of robotic systems, from collaborating with Product Managers in a Product Requirements Document (PRD) to suballocating those requirements into a System Requirements Document (SRD)
Guide the development of hardware architecture for our next generation of robotic systems, with a focus on drivetrain, compute, sensing hardware as well as overall chassis / DFM/DFA architecture
Documentation of systems incuding block diagrams, Confluence page documentation, etc.
Collaborate across the hardware team, including mechanical and embedded and electrical engineers. Then coordinate with our friends in software engineering
Develop comprehensive test plans to validate and verify our products

Requirements

BS in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field
Over 5 years of post-academic work experience in Hardware development
Product-driven, customer-centric attitude
Strong problem-solving skills and a hands-on, roll-up-your-sleeves, DIY attitude
Ability to communicate well and work effectively with high performance teams
Experience with hardware testing and troubleshooting
Experience designing/analyzing mobile robotics a plus

Perks

Competitive compensation and benefits package (medical/dental/vision)
Company paid Life Insurance
401K Plan
Early-stage equity
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

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

21-50

<p>Our mission is to solve the crushing labor problem faced by farmers today, by making collaborative robots a reality. To do this, we are starting first with Burro. Burro is a robotic platform that follows people and can autonomously run cargo around, relieving people of strenuous tasks which add little value, so that they can focus on more valuable work.</p>