Test Technician

Gather AI • Pittsburgh, PA

50d • Onsite

About The Position

Gather AI is pioneering a new era of warehouse intelligence with a groundbreaking, vision-powered platform that uses autonomous drones and existing equipment to capture real-time data, digitizing workflows. The hardware and systems team builds and deploys the physical layer of Gather AI’s products, including on-vehicle compute, cameras, and sensor arrays. This Test Technician role is unique as it operates at the hardware-software boundary, focusing on validation for the MHE Vision platform. The role involves testing sensor integration, validating firmware and software releases, qualifying new compute hardware, and classifying defects across the full stack. The quality work performed directly impacts systems running in the field, and the skills developed are transferable across Gather AI’s product lines.

Requirements

• 2 to 4 years of hands-on experience in a hardware test, lab, or technician role in robotics, drones, automotive, industrial automation, consumer electronics, or a similar field.
• Genuine experience at the hardware-software boundary, not purely software QA and not purely hardware bench work.
• Comfort with embedded device testing: flashing firmware, boot and connectivity verification, functional validation, and regression testing on physical devices.
• Hands-on lab skills including wiring, crimping, schematic reading, multimeter use, and comfort assembling and maintaining test rigs.
• Linux command line and basic networking including SSH, ping, and IP configuration, as well as the ability to inspect live data streams and replay recorded device logs.
• Associate’s degree in a technical field, technical trade certification, military electronics or avionics background, or equivalent hands-on experience.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with embedded compute platforms such as NVIDIA Jetson or ARM-based boards, or familiarity with communication protocols including UART, SPI, I2C, USB, or Ethernet.
• Exposure to evaluating or qualifying new hardware platforms against a reference implementation.
• Familiarity with ROS or similar robotics middleware, or experience with computer vision and perception pipelines.
• Comfort reading and running existing test scripts in Python or another language.
• A BS in EE, CE, or Mechatronics is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Execute hardware and system tests in the Pittsburgh lab, validating sensor behavior, firmware functionality, and end-to-end data flow from physical devices through the software stack.
• Own pre-deployment validation for outbound MHEV hardware kits and software releases, developing and maintaining repeatable test procedures and clear result documentation.
• Debug across hardware, firmware, and software layers, isolating issue origins and routing findings to the right engineering owners.
• Qualify new on-vehicle compute platforms, assessing performance against the reference implementation and contributing to go/no-go decisions.
• Identify gaps in test coverage and propose improvements to the regression suite as the product and platform evolve.
• Contribute to defect triage, classifying issues accurately and communicating findings clearly to engineering teams.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree