Remote Senior Robotics Platform Engineer — ROS2 & Docker

Gather AI; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Gather AI is seeking a Senior Robotics Platform Engineer to own the robotics platform layer across two product lines. You will manage the ROS2 and Zenoh communications layer, the Docker container infrastructure, and diagnostics tooling to surface field health.

You will influence the platform's evolution, with the freedom to push for better approaches and the responsibility to align the team. Join us to shape the next era of warehouse autonomy.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building and operating a working robotics system with a robust communications layer.
• Deep ROS2 experience including middleware, DDS or Zenoh, logging, and system integration.
• Production experience with Docker containers in a robotics or embedded context.
• Strong observability and diagnostics experience across distributed systems.
• Self-sufficient and proactive, able to drive solutions without a hand‑off.

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.

Skills

Robotics systems

ROS2

Docker in robotics

Observability & diagnostics

Independent / proactive

Job description

Gather AI is seeking a Senior Robotics Platform Engineer to own the robotics platform layer across two product lines. You will manage the ROS2 and Zenoh communications layer, the Docker container infrastructure, and diagnostics tooling to surface field health.

You will influence the platform's evolution, with the freedom to push for better approaches and the responsibility to align the team. Join us to shape the next era of warehouse autonomy.