Senior Robotics Platform Engineer (Robotics/Infra)

Gather AI • Pittsburgh, PA

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About The Position

Gather AI is seeking a Senior Robotics Platform Engineer to join their Autonomy team. This role focuses on owning the robotics platform layer for both drone and MHE Vision product lines, ensuring systems operate reliably in real-world warehouse environments. The engineer will be responsible for the ROS2 and Zenoh communications layer, Docker container infrastructure, diagnostics tooling, and developing the roadmap for platform convergence. This position offers significant influence over platform evolution and the freedom to propose and implement better approaches.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience building and operating a working robotics system, such as drones, autonomous vehicles, or any platform with a meaningful communications layer between nodes.
• Deep ROS2 experience including middleware, DDS or Zenoh, logging, and system integration.
• Production experience with Docker containers in a robotics or embedded context, including container design, service management, and deployment.
• Strong observability and diagnostics experience, knowing what to log, how to structure it, and how to surface failures across a distributed system.
• Self-sufficient and proactive, comfortable identifying and driving solutions without waiting to be handed a spec.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with Ansible or similar configuration management tooling for managing fleet deployments.
• Experience working across multiple robotics platforms or product lines simultaneously.
• Background in systems integration, connecting robotics stacks with partner or customer technologies.
• Genuine interest in robotics systems and how they work, not just the software layer on top.

Responsibilities

• Own the ROS2 communications and middleware layer across drone and MHEV platforms, including the Zenoh-based comms layer, behavior trees, and system integration.
• Maintain and evolve the Docker containers our robotics software runs in, keeping them lean, reliable, and consistently deployable to the field.
• Build diagnostics and observability tooling that surfaces the health of the communications layer and running services, from low-level logging through dashboard visibility.
• Define and manage deployment processes for getting software changes out to field hardware reliably and safely.
• Develop the roadmap for converging our drone and MHEV architectures into a unified platform over time, and drive the execution of that convergence.
• Support both Autonomy team pods across drone and MHEV, flexing between their needs as priorities shift.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed