Senior Edge Software Engineer — Drones & Hardware

Gather AI; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Gather AI in Pittsburgh is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Edge Systems to own the software layer between drone and swapper hardware and the rest of the stack. This is a hands-on, Pittsburgh-based role centered on shortening the feedback loop between software changes and real hardware.

You’ll work across the full robotics software stack, including mobile applications, diagnostics, observability, OTA updates, and cloud synchronization, while debugging production issues directly with hardware.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience shipping and supporting production systems.
• Mobile application development experience in Swift (iOS preferred) and/or Kotlin (Android a plus).
• Strong debugging skills across complex, multi‑component production systems.
• Solid networking fundamentals including REST APIs, TCP/IP, WebSockets or MQTT.
• Comfort working directly with hardware during development and debugging.

Responsibilities

• Own and improve the software stack supporting the drone and swapper platform, including mobile applications, diagnostics, communications, configuration management, and OTA update systems
• Investigate and resolve production issues that require direct hardware access, turning around fixes with minimal latency
• Build and improve logging and diagnostics infrastructure that makes the system observable and easier to debug across mobile, cloud, and robotics layers
• Collaborate daily with Mobile, Autonomy, Backend, and QA teams to ship reliable software across the full system
• Own features end-to-end from investigation through deployment, including support for customer‑facing issues in production
• Contribute to the long‑term architecture of a unified software platform supporting both drone and swapper systems

Skills

5+ years experience

Swift (iOS)

Kotlin (Android)

Debugging multi‑component

REST APIs / WebSockets

Hardware interaction

Job description

Gather AI in Pittsburgh is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Edge Systems to own the software layer between drone and swapper hardware and the rest of the stack. This is a hands-on, Pittsburgh-based role centered on shortening the feedback loop between software changes and real hardware.

You’ll work across the full robotics software stack, including mobile applications, diagnostics, observability, OTA updates, and cloud synchronization, while debugging production issues directly with hardware.