Senior Edge Systems Engineer - Drones & Robotics

AIJobs.ai; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 130,000 - 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/swapper hardware and the rest of the stack. This hands-on, Pittsburgh-based role focuses on shortening feedback loops between software changes and real hardware.

You’ll work across mobile applications, diagnostics, OTA updates, and cloud synchronization, solving production issues directly at the hardware.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience shipping and supporting production systems.
• Mobile app development experience in Swift (iOS) and/or Kotlin (Android).
• Strong debugging skills across complex, multi-component production systems, with the ability to independently investigate ambiguous failures.

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)

Multi-component debugging

REST APIs

TCP/IP

WebSockets

MQTT

Hardware debugging

Tools

Linux

OTA update systems

Job description

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

You’ll work across mobile applications, diagnostics, OTA updates, and cloud synchronization, solving production issues directly at the hardware.