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 own the robotics platform layer across two distinct product lines. This role is for someone who is passionate about ensuring systems function reliably in real-world environments. The engineer will be responsible for the ROS2 and Zenoh communications layer, the Docker container infrastructure, diagnostics tooling, and contributing to the roadmap for a converged drone and MHEV platform architecture. This position offers significant influence over platform evolution, encouraging proactive problem-solving and team collaboration.

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