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Funding and backers

Total raised
$20M
1 round on record
Latest round
$20M
Seed · Sep 2024 · 2 yr ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
24
+3 posted in 30 days
Backers
3
KAUST Discovery, Linear Capital
The money's age
Due for its next round
24 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
20/100
hiring for its size, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jun 1 New executive Bot Auto Appoints Brett Suma as President and COO to Scale Humanless Freight Operations · PRNewswire Sep 29, 2024 Raised a round Seed $20M · Pulse 2.0 2023 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 5%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Seed Sep 2024 $20M — Pulse 2.0
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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How Bot Auto hires

Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%

Bot Auto scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 9 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Overview

Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Bot Auto is an autonomous trucking technology company that operates self-driving truck fleets for freight logistics. Founded in 2023, the firm provides a Transportation-as-a-Service (TaaS) model, leveraging artificial intelligence and driverless systems to haul goods for major shippers and logistics providers. By focusing on commercial fleet operations along key freight corridors, the company aims to deliver safer, cost-effective, and commercially scalable autonomous transport solutions.

News

News YahooFinance 2 months ago
Bot Auto Puts First Responders First with US-Based Remote Assistants
Bot Auto announced it will exclusively use U.S.-based remote assistants across its autonomous trucking operations. The commitment reinforces Bot Auto
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Press release PRNewswire 4 months ago
Bot Auto Appoints Brett Suma as President and COO to Scale Humanless Freight Operations
/PRNewswire/ -- Bot Auto, the company that recently made history by completing America
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News Transport Topics 8 months ago
Ryan Transportation, Bot Auto Team Up for Driverless Lane - TT
Bot Auto's first driverless runs on public roads took place in the summer of 2025 in the Houston area. A 40-mile validation run took place July 17 with no one in the cab or remote assistance.
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News Heavy Duty Trucking 11 months ago
Bot Auto Insurance Model Making Autonomous Truck Risk Measurable, Not Theoretical
Autonomous freight company Bot Auto announced it has obtained a comprehensive insurance program that could be a key step toward making driverless freight commercially viable.
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News autoevolution 1 year ago
Bot Auto Successfully Completes "Humanless" Trial on Texas Road, Truckers Are in Trouble
A recent venture by Bot Auto sees them successfully completing a hub-to-hub freight transfer; it signals the second team to do so in 2025 in Texas
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News Heavy Duty Trucking 1 year ago
Bot Auto Achieves True Humanless Autonomous Truck Test in Real-World Traffic
Houston startup Bot Auto completed its first validation run with no human in the cab or remote control, a milestone validation benchmark for its autonomous-truck technology..
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Bot Auto over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
116
Postings analysed
24
Stack modernity
72/100AI adopter
Languages
Python83%
C++42%
JavaScript33%
TypeScript33%
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch25%
CUDA17%
OpenTelemetry13%
LangChain8%
Cloud & platforms
Kubernetes38%
AWS33%
GCP21%
Apache Kafka17%
AI & ML
LLM21%
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Full Bot Auto tech stack 116 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$220k
Typical range
$220k
Open positions
1
1 Jobs
Senior 100%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Senior 1 $220k $220k
Highest paying role Senior Software Engineer, Applied AI $220k
Normalized to USD per year

Growth

Hiring Momentum
60/100
Growing
Open positions
24
3 opened / 3 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
55 days
faster than 25% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
39% ▲
AI/ML
17% ▼
Field & Service
11% ▼
DevOps
6% ▲
Robotics
6% ▲
Support
6% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added SolidWorks to stack Oct 2026
Added minikube to stack Oct 2026
Added Motion Planning to stack Oct 2026
Added Threat Modeling to stack Sep 2026
Added SIEM to stack Sep 2026
Added SBOM to stack Sep 2026
Added Rust to stack Sep 2026
Added OWASP to stack Sep 2026
Added HashiCorp Vault to stack Sep 2026
Added Prompt Engineering to stack Sep 2026
Added OpenAI to stack Sep 2026
Added Edge AI to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
4
Hiring now
2
Countries
1
Busiest office
Houston
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Houston United States
HQ
15310 Park Row Blvd, Houston, TX 77084
24 open roles 18 posted in 90 days 71% engineering 4% remote 50-200 est. staff $220k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, AI/ML, Field & Service
15310 Park Row Blvd, Houston, TX 77084
seen since May 2026 careers board, company site, job postings
Dallas United States
Houston Office
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff
hires for Field & Service
seen since Jul 2026 job postings
San Mateo United States
Regional office
San Mateo(San Francisco Bay Area)
careers board
Brookshire United States
Plant / site
Houston Warehouse
careers board

Jobs

≈ $71k – $130k per year (Estimated) • In office • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Houston
SolidWorks
SpaceTech
CATIA
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≈ $86k – $174k per year (Estimated) • In office • Bachelor's Degree • Houston
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
NATS
RabbitMQ
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
AI Agents
Agentic Workflows
DevOps
Terraform
Ansible
GCP
Loki
OpenTelemetry
OpenTofu
Rancher
Kong
Prometheus
Pulumi
Azure
CI/CD
Git
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Grafana
Platform Engineering
Apache APISIX
Argo Workflows
minikube
Amazon EKS
Google GKE
Azure AKS
Linux
IoT
MQTT
Apply
≈ $80k – $175k per year (Estimated) • In office • Bachelor's Degree • Houston
Python
C++
Motion Planning
Apply
≈ $107k – $205k per year (Estimated) • In office • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Houston
C++
RTOS
Robotics
ROS
NVIDIA Drive
Apply
≈ $101k – $225k per year (Estimated) • In office • Bachelor's Degree • Houston
Python
C++
Quantization
Knowledge Distillation
Computer Vision
ONNX
TensorRT
Transformers
PyTorch
CUDA
Model Distillation
Machine Learning
Robotics
SLAM
Apply
≈ $100k – $234k per year (Estimated) • In office • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Houston
Python
Go
JavaScript
Rust
TypeScript
C++
AI Agents
LLM
LLM Guardrails
Agentic Workflows
DevOps
Terraform
Pulumi
CI/CD
AWS
Kubernetes
IAM
Cybersecurity
HashiCorp Vault
SOC 2
Zero Trust
Least Privilege
Threat Modeling
SBOM
SIEM
OWASP
Apply
≈ $52k – $130k per year (Estimated) • In office • Bachelor's Degree • Houston
Python
Go
JavaScript
Rust
TypeScript
C++
AI Agents
LLM
LLM Guardrails
DevOps
Terraform
Pulumi
CI/CD
AWS
Kubernetes
IAM
Linux
Cybersecurity
SOC 2
Zero Trust
Least Privilege
Threat Modeling
PKI
SIEM
OWASP
Apply
≈ $92k – $171k per year (Estimated) • In office • 5+ years exp • Houston
Python
PowerShell
VMWare
Kubernetes
Proxmox VE
IAM
HPC
Windows
VPN
Cybersecurity
Okta
ISO 27001
SOC 2
Microsoft Entra ID
Management
ITSM
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≈ $124k – $229k per year (Estimated) • In office • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Houston
Python
Go
JavaScript
TypeScript
C++
Conan
CMake
Databases
NATS
RabbitMQ
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
TensorRT
CUDA
Human-in-the-Loop
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
Terraform
Ansible
GCP
Loki
OpenTelemetry
OpenTofu
Kong
Prometheus
Pulumi
Azure
CI/CD
GitOps
ArgoCD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Grafana
Platform Engineering
Apache APISIX
Bazel
Argo Workflows
IAM
API Gateway
Cybersecurity
Zero Trust
Least Privilege
PKI
Apply
In office • Internship • Bachelor's Degree • Houston
Python
Go
JavaScript
TypeScript
AutoGen
LangChain
Prompt Engineering
AI Agents
LLM
RAG
OpenAI
Human-in-the-Loop
Machine Learning
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Apply
$160k – $220k per year • In office • 6+ years exp • Houston
Python
Go
JavaScript
TypeScript
LangGraph
LangChain
LlamaIndex
Model Context Protocol
Function Calling
AI Agents
LLM
RAG
LLM Guardrails
Agentic Workflows
DevOps
CI/CD
Apply
≈ $108k – $204k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States) • 7+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Houston
Python
SQL
Physical AI
Management
Confluence
SpaceTech
FMEA
IBM DOORS
MedTech
Verification & Validation
Defense
MIL-STD-882
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Financials

Total raised
$20M
Latest round
Seed
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Seed 2024 $20M Details