Staff Autonomy Engineer (MHE Vision)

Gather AI•Pittsburgh, PA

29d

About The Position

Gather AI is pioneering a new era of warehouse intelligence with a vision-powered platform that uses autonomous drones and existing equipment to capture real-time data, digitizing manual workflows for smarter, safer, and more efficient facilities. The Autonomy team builds the software that powers these products, specifically the MHE Vision platform which turns material handling equipment into real-time inventory sensors. This role involves owning the core autonomy software stack for the MHE Vision platform, focusing on perception, localization, and scanning pipelines that run on vehicle-mounted hardware in production warehouses. The engineer will work with hardware, field deployment, and ML teams to ensure software reliability in challenging environments and directly impact the accuracy of customer-dependent inventory data.

Requirements

7+ years of software engineering experience with at least 3 years building autonomy, robotics, or perception systems that run on physical hardware in production
Strong C++ and Python, with experience writing software that runs on embedded or resource-constrained compute platforms
Hands-on experience with computer vision pipelines including camera-based detection, localization, or tracking in real-world environments
Experience building and debugging software on deployed systems, including log-based diagnosis and field iteration
Comfort operating at Staff level: setting technical direction, making consequential architecture decisions, and taking end-to-end ownership of a system

Nice To Haves

Experience with ROS2 or similar robotics middleware in a production context
Background in warehouse, logistics, or industrial automation environments
Familiarity with sensor fusion, calibration, or multi-camera systems
Experience with SLAM, odometry, or other localization approaches on mobile platforms

Responsibilities

Own the autonomy software stack for Gather products, including perception, localization, and inventory scanning pipelines running on vehicle-mounted embedded compute
Contribute to the architecture of the product autonomy stack as the product scales to more vehicle types, facility layouts, and customer configurations
Document existing systems
Plan future revisions
Contribute and lead to design improvements and testing
Solve problems across the autonomy stack
Design and implement algorithms that reliably detect, identify, and record inventory locations as forklifts and drones move through warehouse aisles under variable lighting, occlusion, and motion
Improve scan accuracy and coverage through algorithmic improvements, better sensor integration, and tighter coordination with the ML perception models
Build and maintain the software systems that manage scan triggering, location mapping, and data handoff to the cloud platform
Collaborate with hardware and field teams to diagnose and resolve issues on deployed systems, using log data and field observations to drive improvements