Staff Drone Autonomy Engineer for Warehouse Robotics

Gather AI; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Gather AI is seeking a Staff Autonomy Engineer (Drone) to own the core autonomy software stack for its drone platform in live warehouses. You will lead perception, localization, and scanning pipelines on vehicle-mounted hardware, ensuring reliable operation in noisy, dynamic environments touched by real data and edge cases.

You will collaborate with hardware, field, and ML teams to shape software decisions and deployment strategies that directly affect inventory accuracy and warehouse efficiency.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering 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 for 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 iterations.
• Comfort operating at Staff level: setting technical direction, making architecture decisions, and taking end-to-end ownership of a system.

Responsibilities

• Own the autonomy software stack for Gather products, including perception, localization, and inventory scanning pipelines on vehicle-mounted embedded compute.
• Contribute to architecture of the product autonomy stack as it scales to more vehicle types, layouts, and configurations.
• Plan future revisions.
• Contribute and lead to design improvements and testing.
• Solve problems across the autonomy stack.
• Design and implement algorithms that detect, identify, and record inventory locations as forklifts and drones move in warehouses.
• Improve scan accuracy and coverage through sensor integration and tighter ML perception coordination.
• Build and maintain 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.

Skills

C++

Python

Autonomy

Robotics

Embedded systems

Tools

ROS2

Job description

Gather AI is seeking a Staff Autonomy Engineer (Drone) to own the core autonomy software stack for its drone platform in live warehouses. You will lead perception, localization, and scanning pipelines on vehicle-mounted hardware, ensuring reliable operation in noisy, dynamic environments touched by real data and edge cases.

You will collaborate with hardware, field, and ML teams to shape software decisions and deployment strategies that directly affect inventory accuracy and warehouse efficiency.